Category: Searching for a Scottsdale condo

I’ve mentioned how I hate to fly.  But this was a more than usual exciting trip.  Every time I fly it is usually for something fun and exciting such as a vacation or having a fun visit with my family in California or an exciting trip for a real estate seminar, etc.  Flying to Arizona [...]

I already wrote about the short time of buyer’s remorse I went through before going ahead with our Scottsdale condominium purchase.  Fortunately, it was short lived and I kept thinking about the investment value of our purchase. Once again, we were surprised we could afford to purchase anything in Scottsdale, AZ and the reason was because [...]

I have purchased 6 properties before, one of them a 4-flat that I lived in for a while and then rented out my unit after moving to another place.  I am not a first-time buyer.  Yet right before we’re ready to leave and start our search for our piece of Scottsdale real estate, I started getting [...]

It’s a couple of weeks before our trip.  I’ve got homework to do!  I want to see as many properties as possible in the short time we’re going to be out there plus it’s a holiday week.  So I had to choose the listings carefully. I mentioned before that I printed everything out, I wrote notes [...]

My husband has been in quite a few bands in his life (he actually lived in AZ with some bandmates for almost a year – that’s a different story).  He is in a popular band in Northern IL called The New Invaders (do a search) and they play all over.  Their most recent out-of-state gigs [...]

I had a dilemma most buyers wouldn’t.  I knew too many Phoenix area real estate agents.  Most of the agents I knew had great websites that were ranked high on the search engines.  Because of that, I assumed they were heavy hitters. I wasn’t sure which one I should choose.  And I wasn’t sure if [...]