Suzanne's Phoenix Arizona Real Estate Blog

This morning, before Ken headed east to Denver (I understand from Tony that Ken is in the middle of 1 degree Fahrenheit weather!) we had part 2 of our team meeting that started on Tuesday.Today was all about expectations, activities and metrics.  "Results" goals are great to shoot for - but accou...

Sounds like we're well on the way to nasty weather across much of the country.  Today in Phoenix it's gloomy and chilly - not an official weather report - just my personal observation.For some reason - coincidence perhaps - one of our Team Members - Ken Spencer - always seems to be heading to Col...

In my previous life in the corporate world I was a Senior Business Systems Analyst for a Fortune 100 company - responsible for putting internal customers together with programmers and creating websites for our external customers to use.A significant phase of every project involved testing the web...

January 9th 2007 - it seems like New Years Eve was only yesterday.  We've been busy non-stop since January 2 - including Saturday and Sunday - with hardly time to draw breath before rolling into our Team Meeting today.Being busy is a good thing - since it involves listing appointments, helping bu...

  As we were cruising around the Greater Phoenix Metro Area yesterday on Day One of our Photothon, I couldn't help but notice the number of newly planted palm trees that still had their tops bound up! I understand that this makes it easier to transport them, but why leave them tied up once they ...

Tony's parents sold a home in the city of Detroit last year - one they purchased after the riots of the late 1960's for about 30K.  They were fortunate to sell it for $215K - in the Palmer Park University District - one of the Detroit "enclaves" next to the Detroit Golf Club.  In Phoenix - it wou...

The first quarterly Phoenix Active Rain Bloggers meeting hosted by Brian Brady played to a packed room this morning - check Brian's blog post for the complete details. Greg Swann of BloodhoundBlog was in attendance.  It was clear from the first few sentences that this was someone who has much to ...

.....of the New Year.  Today is the last day of the holiday season for us.  We are doing our best to avoid working on Real Estate items - focusing instead on cooking meals for the week as we get ready to implement You: On A Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management  starting tomorrow.  Decora...

We spent this afternoon showing homes to prospective Buyers of New Construction.  Tony doesn't usually work with Buyers - however - since these Buyers are his parents - this is an exception!We visited three builders - Meritage, Greystone and Beazer - all in the Palm Valley area.For base price hom...

As with all good New Years Resoluters - one of our resolutions is focused on health - the right mix of diet and exercise.  As we drove out to Disneyland last week we listened to the Audio CD version of You: On A Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management by Roizen and Oz, authors of a previous...