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2009
Veterans have an edge in the purchase market across the country. While 100% financing has gone the way of the DoDo bird, qualified vets can still get 100% financing up to the conforming conventional limit of $417,000. In some counties, that number can go as high as $729,750. with zero down. Tha...
01/20/2009
I've posted about the Western Diamondback Rattlesnake previously. The Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum has a program to introduce people to these reptiles, native to Arizona. We've even had what I thought was a large specimen (between four and five feet long) in our back yard for a summer. (We kn...
01/20/2009
Doreen McPherson commented on one of my posts, saying that the twilight photo looked "painterly." That's the photo above. I call it "Nightfall in Tucson Estates II." I'm not an artist, but my family has a few who are. My dad, my sister, my cousin, two neices and my late grandfather all are (w...
01/18/2009
If this sounds like some sort of late night television commercial, it's not. Television commercials aren't always filmed on a production lot. Homeowners, looking for some added income, are renting their homes to production companies by the day to bring in some extra cash. The number in the tit...
01/16/2009
I remember being in Washington State when the headline in the local newspaper said "30 Straight Days of Rain." I had flown to Seattle to hire a salesperson for OPEX Corp's northwest territory. I asked one of the applicants whether the clouds and rain made him feel closed in. "Where are you from...
01/16/2009
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Back in the early 1960s, my parents could have picked a South American country where Spanish was the national language. It would have stood me in good stead here in Tucson, sixty miles from the Mexican border. Instead, they chose to move us, kit and caboodle, to the only country on that great co...
01/15/2009
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The license plate says it all. Explore Real Estate! I had to take a picture. But look in the top left hand corner of the photo. See that little dog enjoying the warm Tucson sun? I didn't either. Not until the light changed for the traffic going my way. The guy behind me was polite enough th...
01/15/2009
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There is a joy to be had in color. This pot of geraniums, basking in the morning sun, sits just inside our front door. It welcomes friends to our home in the secluded community of Tucson Estates II, on the western flank of the Tucson Mountains. Color is free, or, in this case, almost free. I ...
01/13/2009
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Sometimes you just can't win for losing. That's my gold Explorer on the left. I wanted to park in the partially open space on the right, but the person sitting in the driver's seat was preoccupied. Getting out, I walked to her window, caught her attention, and when she rolled down the window,...
01/12/2009
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For 2009, I'm going to refamiliarize myself with an old friend. Zig Ziglar. As a much younger sales support person (Product Specialist) for the Opex Business Machine Corporation in Moorestown, NJ, I had the privelege of attending one of Zig's signature seminars. I was spellbound! The year was...
01/11/2009
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