Marty & Laura Dobos's (martylaura) Blog

Normally here... in beautiful Green Valley, Arizona, we are dodging the frequent cooling scattered showers that we know as the "monsoon season".  Routinely every summer usually beginning about July 4th to about the 6th or 7th of September, we are blessed with the very pleasant and entertaining sp...

  It is our sincere desire that everyone throughly enjoyed this years Independence Day celebration.  We actually worked with some clients, who are great people and we really enjoyed their company.... then afterwards, we spent the rest of the afternoon with some other friends partaking in a tradit...

  Weather wise, this year in Green Valley has been quite spectacular to say the least.  Ususally June is our warmest month,  but June has been quite a bit milder this year, reminding me of last year's June abnormailly mild June.  And of course this means, it has also been a great year for hiking,...

  With so much of the financials dominating the news, why not change around the focus and emphasis a bit.  Green Valley, Arizona is not only a very interesting and beautiful place to call home, but also quiet place to enjoy having a meal. If you are on the budget side, there is of course our frie...

  When March arrives it frequently brings the windy season along with it.  I can remember when I was a young boy and my parents would take me kiting.  Boy, does that brings back a lot of great memories.  This year the March phenomenum seems to carry the quickly moving change theme in it's wings. ...

Of course we have experienced this years Valentine's Day.  I do believe that it is important to remember that special person or psersons in our lives and to make them feel extra special.  That is what is so great about Valentine's Day...it is a vehicle to accomplish that.  Whether it was flowers,...

  You can go for a score or just punt!  Well, I have to admit that in the last blog, I got a little overwhelmed or seemingly frustrated by the  direction that our national socio economic reality was heading.  But alas, now I am firmly and fitly optimistic and I am still hoping for some responsibl...

This time of year brings us to the point of being of wanting to be blindly optimistic about the general direction of our socio-economic reality. What else can you do? I am sure most of you are not happy about the bailouts, and the chorus of feed me, feed me.... from all the late to the party oppo...

  Since this is the most celebrated time of the year, I must try to count some of my blessings this year, especially when it comes to the world of real estate.  When it looked like things might begin to stablilize in early October,  here comes Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.  Even with all the negati...

We have all survived the hysteria created after the JP Morgan and the others scenario, the AIG thing, followed by the housing and the bank fiasco, and finally the election and its potential implications....WOW!!! That gives me reason, along with the other obvious ones, to get excited about sittin...