The Arizona Department of Real Estate Buyer Advisory has a lot of good information for buyers and for home owners. When we need roof repairs a few years ago, I looked at the Buyer Advisory information regarding roofs. It provided a link to the Arizona Registrar of Contractors. This site provides information that is...
Here is a link to an interesting article about real estate taxes. This will only affect a small number of people, those whose spouse passed away, but it seems like Congress did the right thing allowing them two years to qualify for the “married” capital gains exclusion on the sale of their home. Hardly...
Happy New Year! Who wants to walk across Arizona with me? It’s about 410 miles from the Mexican border, past the Grand Canyon and onto Utah. The walk or run starts on January 26th and it only cost $10 to participate. The money goes to the University of Arizona Cooperative Extension and you...
Here is something handy that I learned this year. You can send a text message to Google from your cell phone to do a Google search. For example you can send “BBQ Gilbert AZ” to 46645 (GOOGL). You will get a text message or two back. Here is what I got. Arizona Fireplaces &...
Certain events can stir memories of different places in the home. For me, Christmas always brings up the image of the fireplace in the house where I grew up. It was brick that was painted white and it had a walnut mantel. We always rigged a string just under the mantel to hang our...
The original plan when the do not call list was created was that consumers would have to renew every five years. It is now looking like we won’t have to do that and that our registered phone numbers will stay on the list. For more information, click on the link below to read the...
If you’re not familiar with where Arizona is in the United States, click the map above. We are in the southwest part of our country. It’s warmer, dryer and a beautiful place to call home. In Arizona, we live in the greater Phoenix area. In a part called the East Valley. The East Valley...
