What Nobody Tells You About Buying on the Edge of the Valley: The Water Question Every Phoenix Buyer and Seller Needs to Ask

The call came on a Tuesday. I remember that because Tuesdays are usually full of pleasant conversations, appointment setting, and moving paperwork. Nobody’s in crisis, but not this one.  One of Grace’s mentees had been working with a young couple, first-time home buyers, who had found the ideal lot

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Things Worth Spending More on When Buying a Home (And the Things That Aren’t)

I wanted to walk away. As far as I was concerned, I had seen enough. At the time, Grace was the only real estate professional standing in the house. She had walked through hundreds of homes, guided numerous buyers through some of the most significant decisions of their lives, and built a successful

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Should You Buy a Home in Metro Phoenix Now or Wait for Rates to Drop?

There are a few loud resounding messages that we commonly hear from our first-time home buyers: 1) “Rates are too high right now. We’re just going to wait until they drop.”; 2) “Everyone is saying to be patient… the prices will crash.”; and 3) “I don’t have 20% to put down, so I can’t do anything.” 

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