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By Leanne Smith, The Grit and Gratitude Agent
(Dirt Road Real Estate)
No one works for free unless they volunteer to local not for profits or other similar organizations. People have bills to be paid, necessities to purchase such as rent, mortgage, utilities, groceries and hopefully enough money left over for a lunch, dinner or some new outfit.As real estate agents are licensed by the state just like doctors, dentists, financial advisors, however there is a one REALLY BIG difference.Real estate agents are not paid until a successful real estate transaction has been completed. Yes, there are some agents who have a retainer fee that may or may not be subtracted from their overall agreed to compensation.The majority of real estate agents are independent contractors. As such, these agent are small business owners who have up front expenditures including: mark...
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By Chris Dunham, The Real Estate Guy™
(Brokers Hub Realty)
When you’re pricing your home for sale, you need to understand two critical numbers: market value and appraised value. Market value is what a buyer is willing to pay today, while appraised value is what a licensed appraiser determines through data and comparables.The two don’t always match. Sometimes homes sell above appraisal due to demand, location, or upgrades. If you’re buying, this difference matters for your loan approval. Let me guide you through accurate pricing strategies that align with lender expectations.I also break this down in my YouTube video on market vs. appraisal—so you’re never caught off guard during the process. #AppraisalTips #HomeValue #MarketValue #ArizonaRealEstate #ChrisDunhamRealtor  appraisal vs market value, home pricing, real estate appraisal, Chandler hom...
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By Chris Dunham, The Real Estate Guy™
(Brokers Hub Realty)
Before putting your home on the market, consider a pre-listing inspection.This step lets you find and fix issues before buyers see them, creating a smoother sale and more negotiating power. Knowing the true condition of your property helps price it right within Arizona’s competitive housing market.Addressing small repairs like leaky faucets or electrical issues upfront sends buyers a clear message: your home is well-maintained and move-in ready. When done correctly, these small investments add the most value and help you stand out in a crowded field.For an inside look at successful listings, check out home prep videos on my channel. #PreListingInspection #HomeSellingTips #ArizonaRealtor #EastValleyRealEstate #ChrisDunhamRealtor pre-listing inspection, home repairs, pricing strategy, Ari...
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By Jane & Jeff Daley, PhD, Scottsdale Real Estate Arizona
(Luxury Valley Homes Scottsdale)
There’s been a lot of talk lately about how a government shutdown impacts the housing market. You might be wondering: Is it causing everything to grind to a halt?The short answer? No.The housing market doesn’t stop. It keeps moving. Homes are still being bought and sold, contracts are still being signed, and closings are still happening. The difference is that a few parts of the process may slow down a little, but overall, the market continues to function.Here’s What Typically HappensWhenever the government shuts down, some federal agencies temporarily close or scale back their operations. That can cause a few hiccups in real estate, especially when it comes to processing certain types of government loans and insurance requirements: “Applicants for FHA, VA, or USDA loans—which account f...
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By Brian England, MBA, GRI, REALTOR® Real Estate in East Valley AZ
(Ambrose Realty Management LLC)
🐈Tango, Trey, and Tom Boy 11-6-25☀️For ALL of Your East Valley AZ Real Estate Needs📞Call or 🙋‍♂Text Brian at 480-773-2370📨Email BrianI know that there are many cat lovers in the Rain, so now you can follow the adventures of Tango, Trey, and Tom Boy if you love pictures of cats!  I welcome everyone to share photos of your cats along with your comments.☀️For ALL of Your East Valley AZ Real Estate Needs📞Call or 🙋‍♂Text Brian at 480-773-2370📨Email Brian
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By Brian England, MBA, GRI, REALTOR® Real Estate in East Valley AZ
(Ambrose Realty Management LLC)
💥Lower Rates in 2025 ☀️For ALL of Your East Valley AZ Real Estate Needs📞Call or 🙋‍♂Text Brian at 480-773-2370📨Email Brian ️Mortgage rates have fallen ⬇️ to new lows for 2025, and buyers are rushing back. If you’ve been waiting to sell, now may be the right time to act before competition increases ⬆️  To read the full article...  Click HERE. I specialize in the East Valley of the Phoenix Metro area - Gilbert, Mesa, Chandler, Tempe, Scottsdale, Apache Junction, and Gold Canyon☀️For ALL of Your East Valley AZ Real Estate Needs📞Call or 🙋‍♂Text Brian at 480-773-2370📨Email Brian
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By Chris Dunham, The Real Estate Guy™
(Brokers Hub Realty)
Before you jump into buying your first home, understand that preparation is everything. Many buyers start home shopping without getting pre-approved, only to find out their dream home is out of reach. It’s smart to know your true budget and loan options early. Once pre-approved, explore available homes for sale in Chandler, Gilbert, and Queen Creek that match your comfort zone.Always schedule a home inspection—it’s your chance to uncover hidden issues and negotiate repairs. And remember, this process is a team effort. Let me help you navigate the paperwork, contingencies, and timing so you can buy confidently. Watch first-time buyer walkthroughs to learn what to expect on your journey.#FirstTimeHomeBuyer #ArizonaRealEstate #EastValleyHomes #HomeBuyingTips #ChrisDunhamRealtor first-time ...
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By Jeff Masich-Scottsdale AZ Associate Broker,MBA,GRI, Arizona Homes and Land Group/ Buy or Sell
(HomeSmart Real Estate)
What is the BEST investment for retirement? Some may tell you: IRA, Stocks, Treasury Bonds, Crypto, or Mutual Funds. Wait, what is better than ALL of those? That would be a down payment on your first home. Mortgage rates declining even makes it better. It is time to build generational wealth.Read what Dave Ramsey says about Down Payment Math and Strategy for buying your first home. Read on...OK! Tell me more...(photos by Robin Higgins, Pixabay)Hint! Saving for a Down Payment to buy a home is also the BEST way to save for retirement. What gives? Seems strange doesn't it? Save for a down payment on a home before saving for retirement. That is what financial guru Dave Ramsey says. Why? Well, read on...Save for down payment on a "home" before saving for retirement? Your home IS your retirem...
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By Brian England, MBA, GRI, REALTOR® Real Estate in East Valley AZ
(Ambrose Realty Management LLC)
👩‍11-5-25 Photo from Trish☀️For ALL of Your East Valley AZ Real Estate Needs📞Call or 🙋‍♂Text Brian at 480-773-2370📨Email BrianI miss Trish's photos of the Arizona landscape, but she is still photographing wonderful things from her home in Ohio.  I hope that you will enjoy them too!  For those of you who haven't followed my blog over the years, Trish used to be my photographer for listings but has been retired for quite a while.  Her prowess with photography will never be retired, though!!!☀️For ALL of Your East Valley AZ Real Estate Needs📞Call or 🙋‍♂Text Brian at 480-773-2370📨Email Brian
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By Chris Dunham, The Real Estate Guy™
(Brokers Hub Realty)
When it comes to enhancing selling your home, presentation is everything. Today’s buyers are visual and emotional—they want to feel the value before they see the price.A well-kept exterior and clean curb appeal can dramatically influence first impressions. Listing your property in the East Valley means showcasing Arizona listings and home values effectively with professional photos and staging. If you’re curious which improvements add the most value, I’ve got proven insights and local expertise to help you win.Check out real-world examples through my real estate video library for homes that sold above asking price.#ArizonaRealEstate #HomeSellingTips #EastValleyHomes #ChrisDunhamRealtor #CurbAppealMatters home selling tips, East Valley homes, Chandler Realtor, home staging, property mark...
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By Brian England, MBA, GRI, REALTOR® Real Estate in East Valley AZ
(Ambrose Realty Management LLC)
💥Connect on Social Media ☀️For ALL of Your East Valley AZ Real Estate Needs📞Call or 🙋‍♂Text Brian at 480-773-2370📨Email Brian️Your dream home is just a step away! Connect with me on social media, and let’s start your journey to homeownership. I specialize in the East Valley of the Phoenix Metro area - Gilbert, Mesa, Chandler, Tempe, Scottsdale, Apache Junction, and Gold Canyon☀️For ALL of Your East Valley AZ Real Estate Needs📞Call or 🙋‍♂Text Brian at 480-773-2370📨Email Brian
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By Leanne Smith, The Grit and Gratitude Agent
(Dirt Road Real Estate)
In AZ and other states, being a real estate agent, one is legally bound to act in his or her client’s best interests which includes accounting. Furthermore, we as real estate agents must put our clients’ needs over our own.  For the first time, these words became very real for me. Let me explain.An offer for a property was made for $XXX dollars with a statement that the buyer would pay $XXX towards the compensation for the buyer’s brokerage.  The broker for the listing agent did not like the wording even though the buyer’s broker employment agreement would be attached to the offer to verify the compensation. After a verbal conversation with the listing agent and being old school as one who lives the CYA Axiom, I wrote an email with the specific language for a counteroffer the broker for...
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By Jeff Masich-Scottsdale AZ Associate Broker,MBA,GRI, Arizona Homes and Land Group/ Buy or Sell
(HomeSmart Real Estate)
Do you want GREEN GRASS on your next Phoenix Arizona home? Not in to cacti and desert landscaping you say? 'Gotta' have a lawn, I can help you with that. I will show you homes for sale in the Arcadia neighborhoods in the Green irrigated areas of Phoenix with large traditional homes. The GREEN GREEN GRASS Of Home...ah yes that sounds idyllic. But can you find this in Phoenix Arizona, America's fifth largest city in the great desert southwest? Yes, and a waterfall as well. Read on...   Arcadia homes are just south of local landmark Camelback Mountain.  YES! Yes, in Arcadia a large neighborhood(s) in the desert city of the Phoenix Arizona and characterized with homes with green grass, canals, irrigation and a waterfall. Yes, you heard correctly, grass in a city that only gets 7 inches of r...
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By Brian England, MBA, GRI, REALTOR® Real Estate in East Valley AZ
(Ambrose Realty Management LLC)
🌵Events in the East Valley ~ 11-3-25 ☀️For ALL of Your East Valley AZ Real Estate Needs📞Call or 🙋‍♂Text Brian at 480-773-2370📨Email Brian 2025 Soil to Table SummitFarmers, ranchers, advocates, and community members join to explore regenerative and organic practices, urban food policy, and sustainable farm management for Arizona’s local food systems.  To learn more about this event, click HERE. I specialize in the East Valley of the Phoenix Metro area - Gilbert, Mesa, Chandler, Tempe, Scottsdale, Apache Junction, and Gold Canyon☀️For ALL of Your East Valley AZ Real Estate Needs📞Call or 🙋‍♂Text Brian at 480-773-2370📨Email Brian
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By Jeff Masich-Scottsdale AZ Associate Broker,MBA,GRI, Arizona Homes and Land Group/ Buy or Sell
(HomeSmart Real Estate)
Are you a GUY? Need a new home for your WIFE with some space for you as well? A place for your tools, that old rocker recliner your wife wants to throw away, big screen TV, pool table, sports memories along with your beer fridge, but sweetie does not want any of it in the house? Where to put it? YOUR MAN CAVE or in the RV Garage! Where else?Your space for Video Games, Arcade Games and STUFF in the MAN CAVE (by Mode21 from Pixabay)Here are my TOP TEN reasons to buy a home with a MAN CAVE. Coming in at #2 on my list, is "Place For Your Collector and Work In Progress Cars".1965 For Mustang! Nice (Photo: Pixabay)I am thinking of ways for you to consider buying a home with a MAN CAVE using me as YOUR REALTOR® in the Phoenix Arizona metro area. I have all the MAN CAVE homes for sale for you r...
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By Brian England, MBA, GRI, REALTOR® Real Estate in East Valley AZ
(Ambrose Realty Management LLC)
🥗Catholic Charities - Jean Dresley PSA☀️For ALL of Your East Valley AZ Real Estate Needs📞Call or 🙋‍♂Text Brian at 480-773-2370📨Email BrianInspired by posts that I see from others, I wanted to begin a weekly series of resources for people in need who are in the East Valley.  I think continuing to research this weekly series will also help me to discover what is out there for those in need.Catholic Charities is committed to helping a community’s most vulnerable with solutions that permanently improve lives. They do this by serving and sheltering neighbors, strengthening children and families, and welcoming refugees and immigrants, and collaborating with the community. To learn more, click HERE.☀️For ALL of Your East Valley AZ Real Estate Needs📞Call or 🙋‍♂Text Brian at 480-773-2370📨Email B...
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By Jeff Masich-Scottsdale AZ Associate Broker,MBA,GRI, Arizona Homes and Land Group/ Buy or Sell
(HomeSmart Real Estate)
LOOK no further on your own free Arizona MLS. Find a new home and place to live in Sunny Phoenix Arizona metro and UPDATED DAILY! Phoenix metro is known as "Valley of the Sun"! See why...read on! (Photo: Dobbins Lookout Point, Phoenix Parks and Recreation website) Look and find your next home in Sunny Phoenix metroThink the Sunny Phoenix Arizona metro area including Scottsdale. You may want to start planning to buy real esate in the Phoenix metro in 2025. Why? The National Association of Realtors has forecast the Phoenix Arizona metro area to be one of the Top 10 HOTSPOTS in America during the coming 2025 year to purchase a home and expect for prices to rise. So, before prices start to rise, NOW is the time to preparing to get prequalified and buy a home! When you are ready I can take y...
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By Jeff Masich-Scottsdale AZ Associate Broker,MBA,GRI, Arizona Homes and Land Group/ Buy or Sell
(HomeSmart Real Estate)
Halloween is today. Are you looking for a CREEPY Home that you can fix up and build some sweat equity? Who would you ask for advice on Creepy Home or other Real Estate in the Phoenix Arizona metro area, Herman Munster or me, your personal REALTOR? Choosing among Realtors could cause you to go to a MONSTER MASH this Halloween. MONSTER MASH of Real Estate and Creepy Fixer Upper HomesAs sung by Bobby Pickett and the Crypt Kickers (1962)Choose Between Herman Munster and ME As Your REALTORSure, Herman looks the part as a Realtor on Halloween, the nice sports jacket and smile and he actually lives in a CREEPY house, but I have been in the Phoenix metro and Arizona for a long time. OK, OK you are going to ask Herman Munster this year...well here you go! Boo! If Herman Munster was a Real Estate...
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By Brian England, MBA, GRI, REALTOR® Real Estate in East Valley AZ
(Ambrose Realty Management LLC)
🏛85234 Housing Headlines 10-31-25 ☀️For ALL of Your East Valley AZ Real Estate Needs📞Call or 🙋‍♂Text Brian at 480-773-2370📨Email Brian️Not only is Gilbert a thriving business community, but its access to a nationally ranked public school system, an abundance of family-friendly activities, and over 300 days of sunshine per year make Gilbert a sought-after place to call home in Arizona and the Southwest United States. I specialize in the East Valley of the Phoenix Metro area - Gilbert, Mesa, Chandler, Tempe, Scottsdale, Apache Junction, and Gold Canyon☀️For ALL of Your East Valley AZ Real Estate Needs📞Call or 🙋‍♂Text Brian at 480-773-2370📨Email Brian
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By Brian England, MBA, GRI, REALTOR® Real Estate in East Valley AZ
(Ambrose Realty Management LLC)
🐈Tango, Trey, and Tom Boy 10-30-25☀️For ALL of Your East Valley AZ Real Estate Needs📞Call or 🙋‍♂Text Brian at 480-773-2370📨Email BrianI know that there are many cat lovers in the Rain, so now you can follow the adventures of Tango, Trey, and Tom Boy if you love pictures of cats!  I welcome everyone to share photos of your cats along with your comments.☀️For ALL of Your East Valley AZ Real Estate Needs📞Call or 🙋‍♂Text Brian at 480-773-2370📨Email Brian
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