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This morning I went back through our MLS data and charted how many sales there have been for short sale and lender owned homes for the past few years. I was curious to see what the trends looked like and if they matched up what I’ve been seeing lately, and for the most part my [...]

Since the influx of short-sale and bank-owned homes I have been waiting for the Tucson Association of Realtors (TAR) to get on board and add specific designations in our MLS system to address these items. It is entirely too cumbersome to search the Tucson MLS on keywords in the description fields when looking for a [...]

This is part two of my Tucson Short Sales series. If you haven’t read part one (Tucson Short Sales - Part 1 - What are Short Sales?) please read it first for the proper background. In this article of the series we will go over the ramifications of a short sale. Keep in mind that you [...]

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Hyundai, the number one selling South Korean automobile in the world, is making her presence felt in Nigeria. Hyundai motors Nigeria Ltd is currently aggressively promoting some of her great models.Some of the models include the compact but stylish Hyundai i10, the luxury Sedan Hyundai Genesis, mid size cross over sports utility vehicle SUV Hyundai Veracruz and the Hyundai Santa Fe a compact mid s

Since the real estate boom of 2003-2005 the Tucson real estate market has been flooded with homes going into foreclosure, short sale homes, and bank-owned homes. Many consumers aren’t completely clear on what a short sale is, but the easy explanation is this: Whenever you are trying to sell your home for less than what [...]

Good Morning everyone, the Tucson Association of Realtors, (TAR), has released the Tucson Housing Market sales statistics for May 2008. Here is a summary of the important points: Sales Analysis Average and Median Sales Price Decreases Average and median sales price both decreased in May 2008. Average sales price declined to $250,803- down 9.98% from May [...]

While getting ready for work this morning and listening to my morning talk, I noticed my commentator was reading a letter that had appeared in our local newspaper as a guest opinion. He was rather animated about it so I "tuned in" a little more to get the full story. As anyone with a pulse in the past year or so knows, Tucson is ground zero for the illegal immigration battle. We not on

In today’s Arizona Daily Star, there is an article about the final gasp of the De Anza Drive-In to make way for another big-box “Power Center”. A short excerpt: A developer is finalizing a deal to buy the De Anza Drive-In, at 1401 S. Alvernon Way, and has already started marketing it as a retail complex. Evergreen [...]

Good Morning everyone, the Tucson Association of Realtors, (TAR), has released the Tucson Housing Market sales statistics for April 2008. Here is a summary of the important points: Sales Analysis Average and Median Sales Price Increases Average and median sales price both decreased in April 2008. Average sales price decline to $253,729 - down 8.91% from [...]

Being in Tucson and missing out on Sabino Canyon is a tragedy. Sabino Canyon is a natural desert oasis located in the Coronado National forest and is home to numerous eco habitats, rare species of trees, animals and birds. It’s a perfect place for a family picnic or maybe you can quench your thirst [...]

O anúncio foi feito pelo empresário Carlos Alberto de Oliveira Andrade, dono do grupo Caoa. O carro é atualmente o importado mais vendido do país com cerca de 1.500 unidades comercializadas por mês.Segundo Andrade, o grupo Caoa vai investir R$ 300 milhões para produzir o utilitário esportivo Tucson, na fábrica localizada em Anápolis, Goiás, onde a princípio sairão da linha de montagem

● Don Kelly Construction leased 3,275 square feet at 3275 W. Ina Road. Thomas J. Nieman of Picor Commercial Real Estate Services handled the transaction. ● Sunflower Farmers Market has leased two new locations in Tucson from Continental Properties Co. and Larsen Baker LLC. Continental will build a 25,650-square-foot store for Sunflower at North First Avenue and East Limberlost Drive, and Sunflower will occupy a 27,225-square-foot space at West Orange Grove and North Thornydale Road. Rick Volk of Volk Company Commercial Real Estate represented the tenant.

Gone are the days of dealing with the legacy copper wire ILEC for delivering scalable business class communincations to include gigabit ethernet, EWan, and fully symmetrical fiber optic internet.  Cable companies have evolved far beynd just being a "cable company".    Cox communications in Tucson AZ is really starting to emerge as the industry leader in Business class communications for all Tucson Business. (...)

The WeatherAfter living in Tucson for five months, I have to admit that Tucson is actually quite nice in the winter. If you're planning a trip to the Southwest, schedule it between October and March. This is really quite important. If you make the trip during the summer, you will find that Hell has clawed its way out of its lake of fire and settled firmly on Tucson and the surrounding areas. Howev

I’m not in a great mood. I would apologize, but it would be fake as I’m not truly sorry at this moment in time. If you want to see the pictures from Tucson, go here and click your little hearts out. We had a great time, a lot of alcohol, and were V.I.P.s at Level Bar & Lounge, the hottest night club in Tucson. It was fabulous. thx.

● The Kivel Trust has purchased a 5,000-square-foot building at 3116 N. Swan Road. The price was about $1.4 million. Bob Kivel of Commercial Retail Advisors LLC represented the buyer. Rick Kleiner and Rob Glaser of Picor Commercial Real Estate Services represented the seller NFB Investors LLC. ● Effective Signs purchased a building at 1544 S. Euclid Ave. from Connelly Billiards for a new corporate headquarters. The price was $650,000. Chuck Corriere of Long Realty Commercial represented the buyer. ● MKB Painting Inc. of Phoenix purchased a 6,200-square-foot building at 5809 S. Belvedere Ave. for $900,000. Corriere handled the transaction.

If you are unaware what "Verizon FiOS" is it is Verizon's advanced high speed, high bandwidth "fiber to the premises"  product.  Verizon has built out a netwok in some markets where Verizon is the ILEC to actually deliver a true fiber optic handoff straight to any residence or business location. (...)

Today I’m going to show you how to make an easy, delicious guacamole - direct from my trip last summer to sunny Tucson, Arizona. While at the Flying V restaurant in Tuscon, I learned how to make this zesty mexican food staple. Rich with jalapeños, garlic, onion and other goodies, this is sure to set your [...]

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Cox (News - Alert) Business has released VoiceManager, a feature-rich telephony platform that integrates the desktop phone, PC and wireless devices to offer better communications control, flexibility and functionality to achieve operational efficiency, according to a wire report. (...)

Beautiful, Large, TEP Guaranteed, Pulte Home on premium lot with views of the Catalina Mountains! Home shows pride of ownership and has a very bright an open floorplan. Upgrades include: full covered patio, structured wiring with smart box, kitchen island, soft H2O loop, two tone paint, prewired for alarm, fully insulated garage, ceiling fans in all rooms, etc. Minutes from The Gallery golf club in Dove Mountain and easy access to I-10. Great up and coming area with brand new shopping centers being built. Located in Marana school district with Estes Elementary, Marana Middle, & Marana High. Come see!!For more details and CURRENT pricing call 520-885-9000.

The WeatherAfter living in Tucson for five months, I have to admit that Tucson is actually quite nice in the winter. If you're planning a trip to the Southwest, schedule it between October and March. This is really quite important. If you make the trip during the summer, you will find that Hell has clawed its way out of its lake of fire and settled firmly on Tucson and the surrounding areas. However, in the winter, the weather is lovely, and occasional storms leave an ephemeral layer of snow on the Catalina Foothills.Photo (Right): The storied cliffs that create the canyon walls are particularly photogenic late in the day when the sun shines directly on them.The TrailLast weekend, I was finally able to hike out into the foothills after just such a storm. To my delight, It wasn't long befor

A lot of Tucson businesses that have more than one physical "brick and mortar" location have been convinced that the only reliable "business class" internet connection is the outdated copper wire T1 solution. (...)

I received a random and unexpected call from a gentleman that allegedly represents a large, big name business internet and communications provider here in Tucson that sells a lot (and I mean a lot) of fractionalized and full T1’s. (...)

Well, after undergoing drastic changes, Tucson Complete is almost back to the stage where it was a week or so ago. In the time that I have been thrashing about with the page a number of exciting things have happened involving the site. Just today I took a look at the Google Page Rank and Tucson [...]

Blah… I have made a number of changes with Tucson Complete to clean up the URLs and things along these lines. However, Google still has the long and drawn out URLs thanks to the fact that I didn’t setup my robots.txt file properly and let the site leak on to the web before I was ready. [...]

 "Fixed Wireless"….It's the new Buzz.  It use to be thought that "fixed wireless" was a less reliable or less secure service than a T1 and only for areas where there was no other choice for connectivity due to lack of a built out "legacy" copper wire infrastructure.  This is completely FALSE. (...)

In trying to establish Tucson Complete’s online identity I often times check key search phrases to see where the site turns up. Here are the results for some of the keywords that I typically try… keep in mind that the site has not quite been out there and going for a month yet. All searches [...]

So… apparently my new obsession at Tucson Complete has been legends, hauntings and such. I am compiling quite the list that I hope to have completed by Christmas. Then comes the fun part… research and investigation, pictures reports etc. On that note, Tucson Complete is growing quite well and is actually beginning to get indexed on Google, though it still hasn’t been fully crawled nor have ANY of the links to it. On that note, that note here is the link to the current list of Tucson Legends. Check back often as this list is growing daily and will be completed in short order as stated previously. Technorati Tags: Tucson, Arizona, Ghosts, Legends, Tucson Legends, Tucson Ghosts, Haunting, Tucson Hauntings

In my research for Tucson Complete, I have long been fascinated with legends and hauntings in Tucson. Well, my searches have come up with some results but not quite as many as I’d like… so, it seems fitting that Tucson Complete contain as many references to legends and hauntings as possible. I have been compiling a list of Tucson Legends & Hauntings that I hope will be educating and entertaining for both myself and visitors. What would be really neat would be to either stay, or get with a group of people and stay in the locations being deemed “haunted”. Would be a lot of fun and quite interesting to say the least. Technorati Tags: ghosts, haunting, Tucson, Tucson Complete, Tucson Wiki, Tucson Arizona, Arizona, Tucson AZ, AZ

Tucson Complete is now serving up over 100 pages, 109 at the moment. This is a significant milestone and through my browsing makes it the most comprehensive Tucson Wiki on the web. We still have a long way to go to reach my goal of 1000+ pages by the end of next year, but that puts us well on the way!!! Having released it yesterday I have spent a considerable amount of time getting the word out about it and trying to propagate it across the web. One of my goals is to have Tucson Complete show up on the first page for majority of Tucson searches… with any luck, a good percentage of searches will land Tucson Complete on the front page by the end of the year. Thanks to everyone that has visited thus far, it has received over 50 visitors from 10 states and 5 countries since tracking started yesterday. Thanks again everyone!!! Technorati Tags: Tucson, Arizona, Tucson Arizona, AZ, Tucson AZ, Tucson Complete, Tucson Wiki

Well, I had intended on releasing this website a bit later… but it managed to get web crawled a bit earlier than I had planned. With that being said its time to introduce Tucson Complete!!! This is a brain child of mine that I had really been interesting in doing for a few years now… and the time is here!!! Think of it as your one stop shop for all things Tucson. The really cool thing about it is that its a Wiki… so everyone can edit and add to it, all you have to do is register!!! Plan your vacation, plan a night out, virtually explore the city the sky is the limit. I will continue to provide updates to the site as it progresses. It is currently in its infant states. My goals for the site by the end of the year include 1000+ total pages of content and an average of 15-25 unique visitors per day. As always, I’d appreciate a link on your site and I’d appreciate a blog from my fellow bloggers to help with promoting the site. Leave me some feedback, let me

By Tiana VelezArizona Daily StarTucson, Arizona | Published: 10.01.2007As dusk fell Saturday evening over the dusty streets of Old Tucson Studios, the town's Halloween denizens awoke from their annual slumber and once more took up residence.On the surface — and to the public — it's the mad Dr. Jebediah Hyde who "oversees" the criminally insane (and gory) residents of Nightfall, Old Tucson's nightly alter-ego.But it's art director Andrew Kenworthy who is largely responsible for the physical manifestation of the inhuman occupants and victims, alive or otherwise.Andrew Kenworthy, the art director at Old Tucson Studios, checks out one of the Nightfall Halloween displays, part of his "Big, Giant, Huge List of Stuff."Photos by james s. wood / arizona daily star_________________________________________________________________________ArizonaEarthshines.com

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Sub Prime Market and Margin Calls   How did we get to where we are today? We all know about the collapse of the sub-prime market and the tidal wave effect it has had on the mortgage industry as a whole. Here is a brief synopsis. Over the last few years, Wall Street investors had fallen in love with the returns on sub-prime (lower credit ratings) mortgages. They paid a premium for these loans in large quantities. The demand of this sort of product in turn induced the lenders to lower their underwriting standards and make more of these loans. After these portfolios started to mature, the true rates of delinquencies and losses was recognized to be higher than predicted. Aside from having homeowners who were never financially qualified, buyers were put into risky loans such as option ARMs that they did not entirely understand. At this time, the investors started buying these loans at a discounted rate instead of a premium because of the increased risk associated with these securities. The

America's gem festival of the year - the Tucson international gem show - successfully ended in February. It began 54 years ago as a class room exhibition of gems and minerals designed for the public by a geology professor at the Arizona State University USA. Today it has grown to become the world's largest gem-jewelry-mineral-fossil show.Every new year season (January - February), the desert city of Tucson begins to dazzle with a myriad of colors as thousands of exhibitors and dealers from across the world display their glittering precious stones.Major gem exhibits at Tucson convention centers and hotels are the AGTA (American Gem Traders Association), GJX (Gem and Jewelry Exchange) show and the WGJ (World Wide Gem and Jewelry) show. Among these AGTA and GJX are the most popular with over 2000 exhibitors at each show. Exhibitors form the United States, Europe and Asia dominate the show. Sri Lanka, Thailand, India, Myanmar, China, and Japan are represented in different pavilions at th

The Tucson Association of Realtors, (TAR), has not officially released has released the Tucson housing sales report for July 2007 (should come out in a couple of days) and here are the numbers for last month: Sales Analysis Average and Median Sales Price Decreases Average and median sales price both decreased in July 2007. Average sales price fell slightly to $269,227- down 1.7% from July 2006 and down almost 10% from last month. Median sales price also decreased $11,200 from June 2007. Active Listings Continue Declining Active listings have been falling slowly since April 2007, reversing the increases we saw between January and April of this year. The number of active listings fell 3.1% from June 2007, to 8,614 active listings in July. Pending Contracts Up Over July 2006 Pending contracts in July 2007, totaling 1,777, rose 63.18% when compared to last July’s total of 1,089. While down from last month, July still had the second largest amount of pending contracts for the year -

It’s always good to have friends. I count a lot of people in the real estate blogging world as friends. Oooh, I just had a sudden linkbaiting twitch about linking to everyone I considered a “friend” as a guilt inducing measure at responsive return linkage. Nah, that would take too long and be medium evil. Anyway, I’ve actually been on a moderately low point emotionally and blogging wise for about two months. Really just going through the motions. At least to my credit going through the motions means two posts a day rather than a big blank space in something we call June and July. Only Dave Smith bothered to actually email me and ask me how I was. Also as I write I realize Jonathan Dalton has called me a couple times in mock outrage about something I wrote. He always did ask me how I was in some form or an other though. I blew those questions off though. Dave has quietly staged a little mini intervention behind the scenes. Though I doubt he thought of it tha

Caitlin Leverenz keeps adding to her summer stash of swimming awards. On Saturday, the 16-year-old Sahuaro standout scored her second silver ( … … . Not a bad past month for Leverenz. First, she won gold in the Pan American Games in Rio … in Pan 2007 - Rio de Janeiro 2007 Pan-American Games Blog… ( View br / Technorati URL search Posted in Pan Posted in Pan 2007 - Rio de Janeiro 2007 Pan-American Games Blog… ( 1 link from 1 site)

Caitlin Leverenz keeps adding to her summer stash of swimming awards. On Saturday, the 16-year-old Sahuaro standout scored her second silver ( … … . Not a bad past month for Leverenz. First, she won gold in the Pan American Games in Rio … in Pan 2007 - Rio de Janeiro 2007 Pan-American Games Blog… ( View br / Technorati URL search Posted in Pan Posted in Pan 2007 - Rio de Janeiro 2007 Pan-American Games Blog… ( 1 link from 1 site)

Tucson Real Estate - The Current Scenario Real estate is a sector that can turn needy into distributors and sometimes the vice versa. The amount of growth in this sector is enormous and hence it is one of the most sought after sector in the industry. Talking about the united states real estate market let us [...]

Colossal Cave Mountain Park is just the place to go if you want to enjoy some of Southern Arizona’s natural beauty or if you want to spend quality time with your family! Abundant in wildlife, Colossal Cave Mountain Park is a natural sanctuary to hundreds of species of birds, reptiles, mammals and infinite butterflies, beetles, moths and numerous other invertebrates! Some of the mammals that can be spotted in the park include Pack Rats, Spotted Skunks, Ringtails, Foxes, Bobcats, Raccoons, and Mountain Lions and of course, bats…hundreds of bats! One of the reasons Colossal Cave Mountain Park is so popular with everyone is because of its remarkable diversity in such a small area. The reason for such variety in flora-fauna and wildlife can be attributed to the Park’s location. Situated in the “Sonoran-Chihuahuan transition zone,” the park has a large number of desert species that can’t be found anywhere else in the entire Tucson valley. Fortunately for us, the P

Good Morning everyone, the Tucson Association of Realtors, (TAR), has released the Tucson Housing Market sales statistics for last month, June 2007. Here is a summary of the important points: Sales Analysis Average and Median Sales Price Increases Average and median sales price both increased in June 2007. Average sales price jumped to $298,477 - up 9.05% from June 2006 and up more than $17,000 from last month! Median sales price also rose $5,500 from May 2007. Active Listings Continue Declining Active listings have been falling slowly since April 2007, reversing the increases we saw between January and April of this year. The number of active listings is now lower than it was at the start of 2007. Days on Market Rises Again Average time on market continues to fluctuate month-to-month, with 64 days being the average time for June 2007, up three days from May 2007. Home Sales Snapshot Home Sales Volume Decreased 12.27% from $417,120,100 in June 2006 to $365,932,899 in June

The great mahasiddha (mystic) Naropa is said to have meditated here, possibly reading or writing the Kangyur, as some of these pechas are called, which contain the actual words of the Buddha; or perhaps the Tengyur, those pechas that possess commentaries.

Since the start of 2007 there have been 2 deaths and 9 near deaths by drowning in Tucson. In just the past week there has been one death and 2 near drownings: 1-year old Daniela Parra drowned in an above ground pool in her backyard while friends and family were inside. A two-year old girl slipped past adults and nearly drowned in a backyard pool while other children were swimming. And a 5-year-old girl nearly drowned while swimming with adults and children. Every year we see heart-breaking stories like these that could be easily prevented and I thought it would be prudent to go over Arizona state pool laws for everyone. In 1991 Arizona Revised Statutes (A.R.S) § 33-1681 was passed, requiring enclosures around pool areas. This is an Arizona state law but each city or county may implement additional, more restrictive laws. Check your local laws here. Here are the basics of the statute (from Arizona Department of Health Services - Residential Pool Safety Notice): POOL ENCLOSURE REQUI

For a neat piece of Tucson history and a nostalgic fieldtrip of the mind, stop by the Fox Tucson Theatre in downtown Tucson. Located on Congress Street just west of Stone Avenue (17 West Congress), the Fox Tucson Theatre sports a glittering “FOX” marquee that takes us back to the 1930s when it was the hoppin’ place in town. A brief excerpt from the Fox Tucson Theatre website: “For 44 years the theatre showed films primarily, but also offered occasional live entertainment until it closed in 1974. The Fox Tucson Theatre is one of a dwindling number of historic theatres still in existence in the United States and is the finest example of its kind in Arizona. In light of this exceptional status, is has been designated as a Nationally significant building on the National Register of Historic Places.” I remember driving back and forth past this place for several years wondering when (and if) they were ever going to finish the restoration project everyone kept ch

An encounter with the Tucson's "Godfather of Cow Punk"...Al Perry. Yesterday Tucson treasure and Club Congress fixture Al Perry appeared on Access Tucson's The Bunny Show, hosted by our friend Bunny Uriarte, and played his witty and sardonically self-deprecatingly little ditty "Loserville":This is the house That all my troubles built I live at the end of Blue Street In a town called Loserville. When your true love's gone And you're down to your last centIn this neighborhood There's always a place to rent.Afterwards at the customary free dinner provided by Bunny and her mom and director Martha McGrath, we had a chance to chat with this local legend whose dedication to quality roots music stands in stark contrast to a pop culture where "merchants of swill" seem to garner most of the laurels and airplay. Al and "T.S. Minton Blogs Guy" Steve Minton discussed a variety of musical trends and notions:- How Tucson has produced acts of such indubitable musical integrity as Stefan George; L