Jay's Blog

Ok, we all know that the media likes to take a subject (like the real estate industry) and beat it to death. Over the last year or so the only stories worth writing about were how the market is so bad, home prices are dropping, etc. Unfortunatley they had good reason to write about this because a...

Tough question but one we'll all need to consider soon. The state of Arizona (and many other states) has looked into taxing homeowners when they sell their home. The worst part is they will tax you based on the sales price not the equity gain on the home. So they tax the employer you work for, th...

Timing the market....how many buyers are waiting for the market to bottom out?  My guess is there are a lot of people out there waiting to purchase their next home. They are unsure of when to buy - they don't want to buy now because they're afraid they will hear that prices continued downward.Tha...

As part of my ongoing pursuit to stay ahead of the game when it comes to new construction, Sunday was my day to visit builders in the Lake Pleasant/Happy Valley area. I visited several builders and was excited to hear that home traffic/sales are picking up.DR Horton just opened a new area near th...

Do we really understand how our credit scores are figured? Some of us think if we have little to no credit that helps keep our scores high, some think having a lot of credit lines helps keep them high and some of us really don't understand what goes into a credit score. If you fall into that last...