Phoenix Real Estate News & Views

Music In The Desert Botanical Garden - The Spring Concert Series February 6th - June 26th, 2015 While the 140 acre Desert Botanical Garden is perhaps the largest of it’s kind anywhere in the world it is more than a collection of cacti and succulent plants. The Garden is a great venue for entertai...

Visiting The Desert Botanical Garden - Phoenix  AZ 85008 The Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix Arizona is one of the most unique public gardens in all the world. It is home to more than 50,000 plants from every arid and desert climate on earth including the Hedgehog Cactus pictured above.   But ...

The Mesquite Branch of the Phoenix Public Library 85032 The information desk at the Mesquite Branch of Public Library. I love to read and I love audiobooks so for me the Phoenix Public Library is a wonderful money saving resource. Over the years I’ve literally saved thousands of dollars. Entry wa...

Roadrunner Park Farmers Market Phoenix 85032 The Farmers Market at Roadrunner Park is beginning it’s 25th year of service to North Phoenix making it the longest consecutively running farmers market in the state of Arizona. I began shopping the market on Saturdays almost as soon as it began. Word ...

Tuesday evening Active Rain members in the Phoenix Metro area met at BJ's Restaurant and Brewhouse at Desert Ridge. I had been looking forward to this Winter Meetup ever since it was announced.   My husband Scott and I arrived early but Anna Banana, the hostess with the mostest and hubby Gary we...

Bank Owned & Short Sales Closed In Phoenix 85028 December 1, 2014 - January 1, 2015 This market report is focused on distressed property activity within Phoenix 85028 including closed sales for December 2014 and current active listings as of January 15, 2015.   Since 2011 bank owned (REO) and sho...

Is Homeownership An Investment?   "Real Estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world." - Franklin D. Roosevelt   Over the past several months I’ve read a...

Household Hazardous Waste and Electronics Collection Events or How To Safely Dispose of Hazardous Household Waste In The Phoenix Metro Area -See the HHW Event Schedule for the First Quarter of 2015 at the end of this post- What is Household Hazardous Waste? Any leftover household product that con...

The Hub Grill & Bar Mesa, AZ   If you’re looking for an exceptional Sports Grill in the Mesa area (Sossaman and Baseline Roads) you’ve found it. The Hub Grill & Bar is just that, exceptional. All sports bars have big screen TV’s and The Hub has them in spades 50+, but more than just big screens, ...

The World’s Most Famous Tiger Is Coming To Phoenix   That’s right golf fans, wake the kids and call the neighbors Tiger Woods is coming to Phoenix to play in the Waste Management Phoenix Open, “The Greatest Show On Grass”, or as one Golf Channel analyst once quipped “the rowdiest golf tournament ...