Buyer or Seller – Who is representing You?

Home Buyer or Seller … Who is your Guardian Angel? Some questions: who, if anyone, is obligated to protect your interests who is actually legally restricted in the advice and guidance that can be given to you what should your expectations for a broker/agent be? With the Arizona Real Estate Agency Disclosure and Election Form

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Same Property – Same Tax

Lower Property Values = Higher Assessment Rates Below is a chart from a report by the Maricopa County Treasurer that illustrates the average “Assessed Tax” per $100,000 of Full-Cash-Value (FCV) for the various cities in the metro-Phoenix area. Generally, the higher assessed tax exists in communities where the individual property values are lower, and vice-versa.

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High-rise Condos Are Back

… and inner-City Living is seeing a lot more interest This is the surest possible sign that the metro-Phoenix housing market is back. High-rise condos are the type of dwelling that is the “last to rise” with an improving “market tide”, and the “first to fall” when that tide goes out. In downtown Phoenix, numerous condo projects are “full

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Home Staging

Arizona Republic 06/15/2014, Page R01 PENNY WALKER/THE REPUBLIC SETTING THE STAGE FOR A SALE Making your property look model-home perfect shouldn’t break the bank A staged home is not real. You know it, I know it, the buyer knows it. When you walk into a bedroom with a throw placed artfully over the bedspread, topped

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Buying
Wally Neal

Closing Costs for Home Buyers

Closing costs is a term many first-time home-buyers find confusing. Even though you knew you’d have to have a substantial down payment and moving expenses, you may never have imagined you’d be paying out-of-pocket thousands more dollars in service fees and expenditures known as closing costs. Here are some helpful tips you need to know

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Wally Neal

6 Steps to Buying a Home

Buying a home is an exciting adventure. First-timers and tenth-timers alike get consumed by thoughts, daydreams, and ideas about what life will be like in that next home. To keep that adventure on-track and fun, you really need to be systematic. Here are six steps at the core of buying a house. 💲 Money Matters

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Selling
Wally Neal

Things to Consider when Pricing Your Home for Sale

Selling your house is hard. You’d rather focus on the chapter that’s ahead of you than the one you’re preparing to close. You’re thinking of packing, loading trucks, transferring utilities, and tending to the details of your future. But you’ve still got to sell the house you’re in, which means you’ve got to price it

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Selling
Wally Neal

6 Steps to Selling a Home

In selling a home, serious mistakes are easily made. This is especially true in a super-hot market because of the deluge of offers and the intensity behind each. Buyers commonly make offers on several properties simultaneously. If they get acceptance on more than one, they cancel the contract less preferred. Experience at evaulating offers and

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