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 of [...]

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 on each [...]

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 [...]

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 the prices [...]

I have mentioned my fun trip to Arizona to visit my Mom with my son Chad (my middle child who was in his 20’s during our visit).  One of our most memorable trips was to visit Out of Africa that was located in Fountain Hills, before its move to Camp Verde.  At the time they [...]