Southwest Real Estate (NM)

Ladies and gentlemen, from the home office in Prescott, AZ (That's Preskit in case you were wondering), here's today's Top Ten. (Mine's a little more serious than Mr. Risser's! See below)The Topic: Top 10 Reasons You Need To Go To The AAR Spring Convention!Number 10:   Nine...count 'em...Nine C/E...

Downtown Tucson is growing and growing ... and it's awesome!! A lot of the development has been on our 'side' of downtown from Congress and 6th east. West has been a little slow but it's definitely coming along. Our newest neighbor is About Me Hair Studio on the corner of Broadway and Stone, on ...

I had the opportunity to visit the beautiful Ice House Lofts near downtown Tucson yesterday during a broker open and I was blown away. The lofts, located at 1001 E 17th Street, were crafted out of an old cold storage building by Rob Paulus, one of Tucson's premiere architects, in 2005. What he cr...

The inter-webs have been on fire for almost a week regarding how we keep ourselves safe while on the job. So many ideas and suggestions have been thrown out from changing our own personal policies to demanding that the National Association of REALTORS establish and national protocol for all agent...

I'm sure yours does as well.  She got up last Thursday, dressed for success and headed out to do her job - as we all do. She might have gone to the office first, followed up with clients or reviewed contracts or planned her day to show homes - as we all do. I've been in real estate for 4 years n...

As we roll into September, our snowbirds are starting to make plans to make their move west into a more forgiving winter climate. Saddlebrooke, Arizona - to the north of Tucson - is a very popular spot for our winter visitors to roost. When it comes to our retirees - permanent and temporary - Tuc...

I've been in a funk for the last 24 hours or so. I logged onto Facebook yesterday morning and discovered that a man I only knew thru social media had passed away. He was on my list of "People I HAVE To Meet". I'm sad that I'll never have that chance now. I wanted to write something about Russell ...

I have no words to describe or explain the range of emotions I went through as I read the article Tammy Lankford refers to below. The entire website is full of dangerous and wrong information.  It's scary to me that something like this is out there. What Tammy says about her real estate company a...

After many years of planning, months and months of construction, Tucson's modern streetcar kicked off a month ago with a fun 3-day weekend event - complete with free rides for all.  Suffice to say, we've been waiting a very long time for it. In the days of construction, there were the usual naysa...

Last week, my friend, J. Philip Faranda, wrote an incredible article over on Inman titled: It's time to tell agents they can no longer meet with complete strangers in empty houses If you haven't read it, please click over and do so.  It is incredibly important.In the comments section, another age...