Two Days into a Cruise: The Call That Almost Sunk Us
We’d been planning the trip forever, the kind of trip you keep pushing back for one more closing, one more listing, one more “next year.” We finally found a deal on a cruise line that made it impossible to say no again, so we booked it. Two deals were in escrow back home, but we had boots on the gro
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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