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Ask the Broker: Is it legal to place offers on multiple homes?

August 23, 2009 Comments

Sean sent this question in a couple of days ago:
Question: There are a lot of bank owned homes up in Anthem – is it legal to place 2 separate offers on 2 different houses?
The short answer is yes, it’s perfectly legal (at least in Arizona) to place multiple offers on multiple properties. Your mileage [...]

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What You Should Do. What Should You Do?

August 19, 2009 Comments

“Ma’am, I think the answer is quite clear: what you should do is _________________.”
I learned somewhere along the way in an Ethics class in college that anytime you use the word should it could be considered a normative statement. Normative statements are often used to describe what we as a society generally accept as social [...]

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Dead Man Walking: Death of Mortgage Brokers?

August 13, 2009 Comments

Jay’s Note: Please give a big Phoenix Real Estate Guy welcome to Justin McHood, mortgage guy extraordinaire, from Arizona Mortgage Team. Justin’s going to contribute here on a quasi-regular basis — until he runs away screaming like a girl, quits or gets fired. His insight into the world of mortgages should prove beneficial to us [...]

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The End of the McMansion? New home sizes fall for first time in 15 years

August 12, 2009 Comments

“McMansion’s” – those sprawling, cookie-cutter homes that dominate suburbia have, according to CNNMoney, dropped in size for the first time in 15 years.
For the first time since 1994, the average square footage of a newly built home is smaller than it was last year. With a median square footage of [...]

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Bizarre Real Estate Practices #873 (and #874)

August 10, 2009 Comments

From the annual Harris Interactive Poll on prestigious occupations comes this shocker:

Lookee who is sitting firmly at the bottom of the list.
And this is nothing new. Harris added real estate agent / broker to their poll in 2003 and we’ve been at the bottom every year with the exception of 2005 when we were [...]

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Phoenix Suns Dance Team Tryouts

August 10, 2009 Comments

If I was younger, a lot better looking, could dance and was female, then I’d be headed to the US Airways Center on Saturday, August 15.
The Phoenix Suns Dancers are holding auditions, and all the info you need is here.
Since I clearly don’t qualify to be a Suns Dancer, I’ll have to be satisfied with [...]

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