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

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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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What Buyers See Before They Ever Walk Through Your Door

Recently, we walked into a high-end listing in a great location, the kind of property that should have been turning heads online and drawing a line of buyers to the door, but the moment we stepped inside, something shifted. The living room was crowded with furniture, too much of it, arranged in a wa

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