The Good Life Awaits in Scottsdale You’ve made a great choice of cities when you choose to live in Scottsdale but what area best suits your needs? Scottsdale is comprised of 183.9 square miles of land and 301 acres of water. If you are new to the area, that is a lot of land to cover. Here’s what…
Does your ranch style home have you feeling dated? Renovate! The long simple lines of a ranch home may not fit in with newer homes around you NOW but there are a lot of good bones to work with. An updated ranch will fit in better with the neighbors and bring in a better return…
Williams is a great place to live and vacation. If you happen to live in Williams why not take a “staycation” and visit some of the local sights. A staycation is when you enjoy vacation activities without having to leave your home area. Trip Advisor recently updated their list of great activities around Williams. Here…
Mirabel is an award-winning North Scottsdale Golf Club community like no other. Not only is it home to one of Tom Fazio’s beautiful desert courses, but it also offers a 38,000 square foot Desert Lodge Clubhouse, activities, service, and dining to rival any Five Star private Club or resort. Moreover, the gorgeous mountain views and…
Randy Travis sings about how love should be. But, where else can you show your Valentine these depths of your love so well? After all, we have the best holler right next door. A “holler” aka hollow is a small rising valley region between two hills or mountains; often containing a creek. How about a…
After years of saving, you are finally ready to buy a house — but have you really saved enough to buy the house that you want? There are more expenses to consider than just the price of the home, and first-time home-buyers can be caught by surprise at the number and size of the auxiliary…
Planning to remodel your kitchen, add a master suite, or undertake some other pricey home renovation in 2018? Watch out—not all of these home improvements pay off like they did in the past, according to Remodeling magazine’s latest Cost vs. Value Report. For this much-referenced annual report, now in its 31st year, researchers pinpointed the average return on investment of 20 popular home renovations by…
When first considering buying or selling a home, many people will take to the internet for answers to their questions. The information available is vast and trying to decide who to believe can be difficult. There are some great sources of real estate information available like Realtor.com Trulia and Zillow. However, nothing beats the personal…
Figuring out when to plunge into the real estate market can be quite intimidating—especially when prices are high, choices are limited, and history urges restraint. “We’ve seen two or three years of what could be considered unsustainable levels of price appreciation, as well as an inventory shortage that resulted in a record-low number of homes for sale across…
Leasing your home, or second home, can be a great source of income. The only problem is all the work that goes into preparing to lease your home; marketing your home to find the right tenants, collecting rent and making sure the property is being kept up. With all the work involved, it may seem…