After seeing our first place, a Park Orleans townhouse in Scottsdale, AZ, our next stop was to the Casita Real townhomes located on Indian School Rd in the 8500-8600 range.  There were three on our list and two of them were the lowest priced units we were going to see.  One kept reducing as I watched [...]

The first unit we looked at was a ranch style unit we chose at Park Orleans in Scottsdale, AZ.  We threw it in at the end as it only had 2 bedrooms, but it had a family room that we figured we could put guests in to sleep.  It was listed as a townhouse.  We [...]

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 [...]

I’ve mentioned before that I have a handful of Arizona real estate agents to choose from.  Most of them were heavy hitters and I wasn’t sure I’d even be working with them personally or if I’d be working with one of their buyer agents.  I wasn’t quite ready yet so figured I had time to choose who [...]

Mountain view driving on 101 through Scottsdale My husband and I had been talking about retiring to Scottsdale, AZ for some time.  To clarify, we want to be snowbirds as I can’t imagine leaving my family (the grandkids) and friends full-time. We never thought we could afford to buy anything in Scottsdale because we thought [...]