It’s October, and that means it’s National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. So we’re going pink again to hopefully provide a reminder to anyone reading that you need to: 1) Understand early detection is key. Get a clinical breast exam, mammogram and/or do a self-exam. 2) Think about how horrific this disease is and if you [...]
Continue Reading →Dear Loan Underwriters – Please stop asking for pointless, time wasting minutiae
by on September 28, 2009
From the “Huh?” files comes this request from a client’s loan underwriter: Please provide the following: 1) Fully completed and executed Lead Based Paint Notice to Purchase Agreement. Of note, the home being purchased was built in the year 2000. Lead based paint ceased to be manufactured in this county c. 1978. The Residential Lead-Based [...]
Continue Reading →Thompson’s Realty Welcomes Shar Rundio!
by on September 25, 2009
“Thrilled” may not be a strong enough word to describe my feelings in announcing Shar Rundio has joined our growing family at Thompson’s Realty. Let’s try “jubilant”. Those that know Shar understand she is smart, funny, hard working and treats her clients the way they should be treated. She’s a perfect fit for what we [...]
Continue Reading →You’re Fired!
by on September 24, 2009
If you have ever been a boss in Corporate America before, chances are that you have had the privilege of sitting down and having the “it just isn’t working out” conversation with one of your employees. Or maybe you have even been lucky enough to be on the receiving end of one of these conversations [...]
Continue Reading →An Open Letter to Manuel Contreras-Galdean
by on September 23, 2009
Mr. Contreras-Galdean: On November 15, 2008, you killed Kelly Tracy. Kelly was 16 years old when you decided to get behind the wheel of a car with a blood alcohol level of 0.192 – more than twice the legal limit – at six-thirty in the morning. This was, according to some reports, the third time [...]
Continue Reading →Home Buyer Tax Credit Extension: Yet another bill introduced
by on September 21, 2009
If you arrived here via a search engine, please pay careful attention to the date of publication. There are dozens of articles on this site about the Home Buyer Tax Credit. You can see them all here. For the most recent news about the Home Buyer Tax credit, please see this article (July 2, 2010). [...]
Continue Reading →Hosting Change on Phoenix Real Estate Guy
by on September 19, 2009
I just flipped the big virtual switch. We’re now hosted with Rackspace Cloud. The name servers could take a day or so to propagate, so you could be served up from either Media Temple or Rackspace over the weekend. This could produce some wonkyness in regards to comments – if someone gets the MT version [...]
Continue Reading →What You Won’t Learn By Watching TV
by on September 17, 2009
How to get the best deal on a mortgage and what questions you should ask your loan officer. What you won’t learn by watching TV.
Continue Reading →Want a Ubertor Website for a Year? For a DOLLAR?
by on September 15, 2009
Thanks to the folks at Ubertor, a terrific real estate web site provider, not one, not two, but THREE lucky readers of Phoenix Real Estate Guy will get a complete Ubertor Premium site for a year for the ridiculous price of one dollar. That’s no typo. Win a website for a year for a buck. [...]
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I'm Jay Thompson, and I have a little blogging problem... Welcome to The Phoenix Real Estate Guy, or "TPREG" as I fondly refer to it.
