Steffy's Notes

Just Listed Updated 2bedroom/ 2-bath home in Broadway Terrace Condominiums1,008 sq.ft.Car port and additional parkingYear Built 1982Price $185,000The kitchen has granite countertops and granite backsplash, upgraded cabinets. The washer/ dryer are inside. the two bathrooms have been updated recent...

 What a lovely rainy day today turned out! Warm, drizzly and cloudy! Perfect for a brisk walk on a favorite trail. I think a lot of people must have felt that way - the paths at the Botanical Garden were full of visitors. I did my one mile and felt like doing another one. 

 It was my first visit to the Arizona Vegetarian Food Festival, but the events has been going on for 5 years now. The vendor booths offered delicious food and drinks samples, there were Chef demos and food trucks, as well as speakers on wellness activities, and live music entertainment.  I came b...

One of my favorite pastimes is to visit the Phoenix Art Museum, to stop at the tokonoma (see my blog from 2016 here)  and to snap a photo of the current ikebana flower arrangement. After so many years and visits, my own photo collection developed and I visit it often - on my computer screen - to ...

This week's Broker Tour of homes for sale in Tempe AZ included again a great variety of homes, floor plans, price ranges, locations - from 1350 sq.ft. to 4,074 sq.ft, priced between $319,000 to $1,100,000. Below are several glimpses of the homes, included in the tour. One of them was about 1400 s...

Please stop by at this lovely, recently extensively remodeled home in a desirable Tempe neighborhood - Brentwood Cavalier.Address: 512 E Balboa Dr. Tempe AZ 85282Date:January 20, 2019Time: 10 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.Features:Spacious open floor planHuge Kitchen Island4 bedrooms/ 3 bathroomsLaundry insid...

I noticed in two of the homes that my Buyer clients liked recently there was wallpaper in the kids' rooms. I really enjoyed the playfulness of this black-and-white wallpaper - friendly giraffes, elephans, elegant birds, gazelles - I wanted to learn the names of all those creatures. The name of th...

This 2-bedroom, 1-bathroom patio home in Tempe's most desirable historic neighborhood of Maple-Ash was sold for $236,500 on January 7, 2019. It is part of a very small homeowner's association of four units. The patio home has a lot of space in front of the home and losts of space in the back, in ...

Lovely  single family, detached home for sale in a pretty and quiet neighborhood in Mesa Towne Square at Desert Village Subdivision.$210,0003-bedrooms2.5 bathrooms1401 sq.ft.Two-car garageBuilt in 2007Community Pool and Children's Playgrounds        The kitchen has upgraded countertops, cherry wo...

We are the Valley of the Sun and it is very rare to see Superstition Mountains or any other one snow-capped. Those clouds produced the snow maybe but seem to be going away. This is a view towards the spectacular Superstition Mountains near Apache Junction and Mesa from the Desert Botanical Garden.