http://buy.housechick.com Everything you need to Buy a Tucson Home, including information, Tucson MLS Search, and personal assistance Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:32:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Okay. I’ve talked about range pricing before. Admittedly, it isn’t my favorite, because I see it used incorrectly most of the time. Range pricing was invented in a rapidly changing market where it was hard to pin down a value, but you knew it was somewhere between X and Y, with ... http://buy.housechick.com/buy-tucson-real-estate/range-pricing-in-tucson-why/ Question from the audience: What’s your negotiating style? Answer: Whichever way you’re most comfortable with. I like to discuss negotiating styles with my clients before we get too far along in either the home buying or home selling process. Some folks are very aggressive, and aren’t happy with the ... http://buy.housechick.com/buy-tucson-real-estate/negotiating-and-real-estate/ Buying a home is a series of choices - and after you’ve decided what you want and need, and have your financing ready to go, we’ll head out and start looking at homes, so you can pick the right one for you.   Occasionally, I have a client who falls in love ... http://buy.housechick.com/buy-tucson-real-estate/falling-in-love-with-the-first-one/ One of my recent first time home buyers called me the other day, asking about the mounds of refinance, home equity lines of credit, and credit card offers piling up in her mailbox, whether they were important or not.   Usually - not important.   In Pima County, home sales are public record, which ... http://buy.housechick.com/buy-tucson-real-estate/the-junkmail-deluge-2/ One of my recent first time home buyers called me the other day, asking about the mounds of refinance, home equity lines of credit, and credit card offers piling up in her mailbox, whether they were important or not.   Usually - not important.   In Pima County, home sales are public record, which ... http://buy.housechick.com/buy-tucson-real-estate/the-junkmail-deluge/ Had a little fun with some numbers and graphs today. Two things to show you. First, this is a graph of average price per square foot for Continental Ranch from the start of 2004 through today, sold single family homes only: You can see the Continental Ranch market peaked ... http://buy.housechick.com/buy-tucson-real-estate/continental-ranch-how-home-values-have-changed/ I recently had the, ah, opportunity to enact some of the clauses in Section 7 of the local Tucson purchase agreement.  You know, the section we head into to find out what happens when things go terribly, terribly wrong? Let me say that our foray into section 7 was, to the ... http://buy.housechick.com/buy-tucson-real-estate/the-not-so-fun-section-of-the-purchase-contract/ I have a client considering a home that doesn’t have any covered parking.  Nice house, but the owners had a big living room built instead of a carport.  They claim that a garage or carport could be built over to one side of the house, but there’s really no guarantee ... http://buy.housechick.com/buy-tucson-real-estate/preliminary-home-inspections-and-research/ One more downtown condo project opened for unit reservations last week - the Flats at Julian-Drew.  This is a project I think has potential.  Located on the corner of 5th Ave and Broadway, the Flats at Julian-Drew have a fairly sweet location, in my humble opinion.  They sit a block ... http://buy.housechick.com/buy-tucson-real-estate/the-flats-at-julian-drew-finally-downtown-condos-under-200k/ The first of two condo developments downtown now taking reservations is 44 East Broadway, which sits, coincidentally, at 44 East Broadway, between Stone and Scott, made from what used to be the 1979 Federal building.  That first photo is from the 4th floor, looking generally Northwest. Decidedly on the upscale ... http://buy.housechick.com/buy-tucson-real-estate/44-east-broadway-luxury-downtown-condos/