Housing will not fully recover until 2012.  That is when the glut of backlogged foreclosures is expected to be phased out of the market.    Housing will recover by the end of the year.  Now that inventory has contracted to...

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Without reasonable question, banks are in charge of the current Real Estate market here in Scottsdale and the greater Phoenix area.  Patently absurd low pricing of an overwhelming abundance of foreclosure and short sale listings dictates that...

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I have made light of purchasing reticence within this virtual nook.  I have assailed the inability of some to clear the hurdle that separates “browsers” from “buyers” in this ethereal cranny.  I have most likely made...

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  Devastation is not accompanied by a swelling musical score.   The lights do not dim.   It is delivered not through the somber lips of grandfatherly concern.   It lays in wait within the Trojan horse of casual conversation.  ...

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There was an old microfiche machine at my office when I started in this business.  It would be awhile before plat maps went online.  The Mr. Coffee next to the old Xerox copier had yet to be replaced by the single-shot vacuum pack machination...

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