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10 Comments on Backyard Getaway? Or do You Need to Getaway from your Backyard?
All so true. We have had so many home in foreclosure their yards are not an asset. Most others are.
I saw one of your posts the other day and I have to say it has to be a challenge. The landscaping. It is so non green. Are you originally from someplace else? I think you told me once. Our grass was already going a bit brown at the end of May because we have been hot and rainless. Mangy looking grass happens... The backyard is sometimes an issue here.
Disclosure I am stealing that title someday... or crafting something similar with you as my muse, Cara. In fact you may see it on my WordPress.org blog in mid June.
I have never visited the southwest except CA. This looks so foreign to me.
Whoa, I would have a hard time living in AZ coming from New England. Back yards are a great thing to a point. My wife & I have learned you don;t need to go far away to be away. We go 20 miles and pretend we are a thousand miles away.
Great post, Cara. Sellers do tend to forget their backyards; they will do all kinds of work on the front and inside but the back gets neglected.
What compelling and beautiful photographs. Not only is the beauty of the yard important, I think, but so is the ease of maintenance. No one wants to buy a house if the landscaping is fussy and difficult/costly to maintain.
Mark and Tim - True, you don't run into bare backyards so much when going up in pricing, but it's amazing the ratio of finished/unfinished in many of the neighborhoods that popped up in the past five years. A satellite view on Google is very revealing!
Maureen - thanks for reading TWO of my blogs in the same short while! I come from Green Bay, WI and it always seems like an enhanced photo when I go back to visit Spring-Summer. So GREEN! Tucson has it's own beauty, though, and I've learned to appreciate the mountains, sunsets and cacti oh so much! The Title is yours...lol
Hi Doug - New England...as a generalization, homes there...the yards, the architecture, the history....just lovely. :) Cold winters though!!
Hi Toni - You have a great weekend and enjoy the green backyards of New Port Richey FL!
Thank you Wayne and Jean - nice to see you here on my blog posting. I'm trying to illustrate that if you can just present what you have in its best possible light...it all helps. :) We cannot compare apples to oranges, but we all choose the shiny apples out of a dull bushel!
Green Bay...that's right! I knew it was somewhere I have lived. GREEN Bay. I am sure if I ever visited the Southwest, I would appreciate the beauty there. It just looks so foreign, because it is so different. The first time I went on a Caribbean cruise, I thought all the islands would all be green and lush. Islands were all Gilligan's Island in my mind... and of course they were not stranded in the Carribean. I was disappointed in the look of Cozumel and Grand Cayman. My second cruise I was more prepared that some islands are desert. Same thing happened in Aruba, I pictured it green. In San Diego I was surprised how when you got away from the coast it was so brown. I will keep reading you and Mike Jones and maybe the SW will stop looking like the moon to me.
Mike takes the BEST photos!!! Here's the Moon...Maureen! TeePees at the Painted Desert, Northwest AZ...
That is the moon! You are a good photographer too. Your photos make me feel hot, but the good things is it is a dry heat.... or so I hear.
Backyards can make such a difference! We bought our home because of the location DEFINITELY not because of the backyard. They did have a hard time selling the house mostly because of it. We have what we all call an ogre grave in the middle of our backyard and pretty much nothing else. Yes it really looks like a massive grave! (I think it was supposed to be a rock garden feature) We're in the middle of removing it and re-landscaping. Not a job for the faint hearted!
(Wonderful pictures by the way!)
Jan