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Every two years, real estate agents in the state of Arizona are required to complete 24 hours of contining education. Most of these hours are separated into a variety of categories - Agency, Commissioner's Standards, Fair Housing, Legal Issues, Contract, etc. - and are designed to keep agents app...
01/18/2012
Do you have any idea how difficult it is to find roller skates? Not roller blades. Roller skates. Four polyutherane wheels arranged in a rectangle, not a single line, topped with a metal frame and then a leather-ish boot? Three years ago, the quest to find roller skates turned into an all-day epi...
01/16/2012
It’s the first Tuesday of the winter television season and you all know what that means … it’s time for the semi-annual The Bachelor/Bachelorette post here on All Phoenix Real Estate.com. When my wife first dragged me into watching the show using various unfulfilled promises spoken and implied, I...
01/04/2012
There was a rather interesting thread this past week on Trulia Voices, all revolving around the concept of the earnest deposit. In theory, once a contract is accepted, the buyer (or their agent) opens escrow and deposits a check as the earnest deposit - essentially a good-faith deposit representi...
12/19/2011
Back when I worked in Charles Schwab’s Active Trader division, I had access to Level II NASDAQ quotes. What you see on CNBC on the crawler are the sales and, essentially, the Level I quotes – the lowest amount at which someone is willing to sell and the highest amount at which someone is willing ...
12/08/2011
Let's jump into the Wayback Machine to February 2009, when President Obama visited my alma mater, Dobson High School in Mesa, and unveiled the Home Affordable Refinance Program. At the time I wrote: The overall goal is to modify loans in manners that allow homeowners to remain in ther homes rathe...
10/24/2011
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This article originally appeared September 14 on All Phoenix Real Estate.com. So what does an appraisal really mean? Buyers usually view the appraisal as a declaration of a property’s value. Lenders view an appraisal as a benchmark for risk assessment. Real estate agents view appraisals and, more...
09/15/2011
Thanks to the prevalence of bank owned homes in the Phoenix real estate market, the rules are getting rewritten on a daily basis. And nearly all of these rewrites are to the detriment of the consumer. Take the case of the hijacked earnest deposit, which I'd written about previously here. The shor...
09/03/2011
As I write this, my eldest is watching Bridezillas. It's hard to explain just how ridiculously painful this show is, primarily because as these lunatic brides stomp around, yell and curse at everyone around them and essentially act is the world revolves around them, not a single person has the gu...
08/25/2011
I received this e-mail last night ... Is this property owned or still for sale? The reason I'm asking is because I got a funny email from someone that had listed this property for rent for $700-mo and a $500 deposit, all utilities included 18:: a-c. They said they were leaving for 8 yrs to Africa...
08/23/2011
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Phoenix Arizona Real Estate Blog, presented by Jonathan Dalton of Thompson's Realty and All Phoenix Real estate.com. Check back often for market analysis and general thoughts on the state of real estate in Maricopa County.