Southwest Real Estate (NM)

This has been one of the topics I've been repeating over the last few weeks with buyers. It usually starts out pleasantly enough - either on the phone or via email:"Hi, we're interested in seeing a couple of homes in the XYZ neighborhood. Would it be possible to go see them this weekend?""I would...

I checked my closet over the weekend and, since no skeletons tumbled out, I thought this could be fun to do!   1. I was in radio for 20 years as a DJ and, yes, I do have PLENTY of stories. Vince Gill was the sweetest artist I ever met. The best interview I ever had was George Jones. I need to fin...

This is something that I'm seeing repeatedly now in some of the real estate groups on Facebook..and it's gotten me a little upset. Here's the scenario:A buyer's agent calls a seller's agent to show a home. The buyer's show up to see the house WITHOUT THE AGENT. The seller usually lets them in to ...

Our little downtown office consists of 5 people who not only love real estate, but we also love being able to give back to the community. Since we've moved our office to 216 E Congress, we've had the chance to do something really special during the local monthly festival, Second Saturdays Downtow...

I lived in Northern Virginia from 1999 to 2004. During that time, I had the honor of attending the Rolling Thunder event. I can't properly describe in words what the sound is like when you hear those bikes starting to roll across the bridge. All I can say is that, to this day, I still get a chill...

Left to right: Office partner Laura Baldwin, one of our wonderful Brokers, Matt Clifton, myself, my better half Kent Simpson,Office partner Marylou Thompson, Office Partner Bette Davis-Arnold, our other wonderful broker Kim Clifton What an incredible evening we had on Wednesday, March 20th! We he...

William Johnson wrote an article today entitled "They Don't Teach Home Ownership in School" which was kind of eye-opening for me and made me scratch my head a little. You see, here in Tucson, our association has been doing just that for seven years through an outreach program called "From High Sc...

It seems the answer to that question is YES. Yesterday, I stumbled across a tweet which linked a blog from an agent in Florida: Sorry, All Home For Sale Listings Have Been Removed From My Website. I thought that, maybe, it was about having problems with a webhost. Boy, was I wrong. It has to do w...

Since we've been in our brand new downtown Tucson office, I've had the chance to get to know some of our new neighboring local business owners. One shop is a place where you MUST visit to get ready for St. Patrick's Day in Tucson: Flanagan's Celtic Corner, located at 222 E Congress Street...just ...

Please read this, Active Rain Friends. Re-blog it, tweet it, share it with your Facebook friends. This post needs to go as viral as possible.  I'm heartsick. After three years of filling out loan modification paperwork and sending it in, I was informed via a phone call today from Bank of America ...