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Book Review: How to Buy Your First Home (2nd Edition)

Disclosure: This is not a paid review. I was provided a complimentary copy from the publisher but under no obligation to write a review.
How to Buy Your First Home, 2E by Diana Brodman Summers covers a lot of ground in 174 pages (plus 113 additional pages including a glossary and several informative appendixes). 
The book is well written and [...]

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The other day I talked at length with Jason Warick, a reporter with the Saskatoon (Canada) Star Phoenix newspaper. He was working on a story about Canadian buyers for real estate in Arizona.
In the article – Saskatoon Residents Find Arizona Opportunity — Jason (a heck of a nice guy by the way) talked to people ranging from [...]

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Charles Richey Needs Help

Damn it. I hate hearing things like this…
One of the great guys in the “RE.net” is sick, in the ICU, and as is true of many inthis industry, has no medical insurance.
From a post by Max Chirkov, WHICH INCLUDES A DONATION LINK:

Charles Richey, has been diagnosed with Guillain-Barre Syndrome and is currently in the [...]

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I’ve added the Seesmic video comment plugin, which will allow you to post video comments to Phoenix Real Estate Guy.
It’s not playing perfectly well right now, I think I have some theme compatibility problems. This theme seems to have gone a bit wonky since upgrading to Wordpress 2.5.1. “Sounds like a good excuse to switch [...]

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Silly Counter Offers Redux

Oy, can’t believe I just used a Latin word in the title…
But that’s really neither here nor there.
In an article posted Sunday I discussed “silly counter offers”. The esteemed John Wake left this comment:
“It also sounds like you have a great client… and the seller and/or listing agent will be a PITA the whole way.”
For [...]

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