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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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