Nicole Doty's Zion Realty Blog

Arizona does have two ski resorts. Yes, Arizona! The same Arizona that has 120 temperatures during the summer time. Sunrise Ski Resort is located just outside of Pinetop-Lakeside, Arizona and Snow Bowl ski Resort is located in Flagstaff, Arizona. Sunrise Ski Resort has more than enough trails to ...

After four consecutive months of gains, builder confidence in the new-home single-family market is slipping. The drop follows a nine-year high reached last month in the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index, which gauges builder perceptions on single-family home s...

I love and hate Friday scheduled closings. When they go smooth and you get the email from the title company that the funds have been wired and everything has been sent to record it puts me in a great mood heading into the weekend. The rest of the day can seem like a breeze. But when you wake up o...

        I wonder what sort of tenant improvements He would be willing to do? Do you think He'd do a month-to-month or require a long term commitment?   For information on the Real Estate Market in Gilbert, Arizona visit our website at zionrealtyaz.com or follow us on Twitter @zionrealty and Face...

I am a runner. I've been running since I was a toddler and my father(also a runner) would take me out with him for short little runs up and down the driveway until we built up my ability to log some serious miles with him before I was even 10 years old. I've ran five marathons in Arizona and I've...

The short answer to this question for me is YES! Especially my vacant listings and most often times my occupied listings as well. We all know that buyers are emotional creatures for the most part. Scent is one of the key senses to human emotions. Remember what your house smells like on Thanksgivi...

As a broker I get solicted by so many events put on by mortgage lenders, title agencies, other brokerages, etc. that sometimes I don't even read the emails before I send them to the junk folder. However, earlier this week I had an invite come across to me about a free wine tasting event at the To...

The most popular method of keeping a sod grass lawn green through a Southwest winter is to over-seed with perennial ryegrass. Thanks to the beautiful dark green lawn ryegrass provides, many people feel that their winter lawns are more appealing than their summer lawns! The optimum time to over-se...

It's good to have a reset in the middle of the week. A "re-evaluation" of the goals and priorities you set out to have on Monday. Good intentions and strategies that seemed so perfect when you sat down to plan your week can go awry and by Wednesday you're left pondering what went wrong or "how in...

Seville is one of the largest master planned communities in Gilbert, Arizona. There are several phases of build-out, several different builders, and dozens of different floor plans, elevations, and home styles. Seville also has gated areas where semi-custom and customs homes are weaved into the ...