New Home Construction in Gilbert Picks Up

New Home Construction Gilbert AZ

Nice to see a bit of good news (for once) in the mainstream press about real estate in Gilbert... A couple of days ago, the Arizona Republic ran an article, Gilbert new-home construction picked up in 2011. Some of the highlights: 1,545 single-family construction permits were issued in Gilbert in 2011. That's up 46% from 1,060 in 2010, and the highest since 2007. Gilbert's new home … [Read more...]

TPREG Goes World Wide!

TPREG_World_Visitors

Why yes, this is a shameless self-promotional piece. You are, of course, free not to read it! Read on though, for some thoughts and ideas on website analytics mining... The World Wide Web is truly world wide. In 2011, this little corner of the Internet had just over one million visitors. While that number boggles my mind, what I found the most interesting was the map (shown above) of … [Read more...]

Home Sellers: Review How Your Home is Displayed to Others!

Crappy Home Photo

Here we go again... I've written about this several times, but it bears repeating. Home sellers, you need to review how your home is being presented in the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) and online. One of our clients found a new listing today that may meet their needs. This was the photo, the only photo I might add, in the MLS: Looks to be taken with a cell phone through a car … [Read more...]

Anatomy of a Rental Scam

Scammer Rental App

On a regular basis we get contacted by people looking for rental properties on CraigsList. The VAST majority of time they are calling us about properties that are not listed by our brokerage. (Why? People Google addresses and this site comes up frequently in those searches. We have info on almost every Phoenix home listed for sale, even if we aren't the listing brokerage.) Many times the "For … [Read more...]

What I learned from National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)

NaNoWriMo over 50K

Those that follow along either here, on Twitter or Facebook know I took up the (at times asinine) National Novel Writing Month (aka NaNoWriMo) challenge of writing a 50,000 word novel in the month of November. 23 days into this madness, here is what the NaNoWriMo web site says about my little endeavor... Well howdy doody, we just crossed the 50,000 word mark! Let there be dancing in the … [Read more...]

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