I get this question a lot and it’s a valid question. Heck, it’s one I often ask myself as well. Owning a home in the long term has more benefits than detriments, but with the current financial climate, you have to ask yourself: “If I’m renting my current place for $900 a month – Am [...]

We’ve all heard the term, “McMansion”. Wikipedia defines it as such: McMansion is a slang architectural term which first came into use in the United States during the 1980s as a pejorative description. It describes a particular style of housing that—as its name suggests—is both large like a mansion and as generic and culturally ubiquitous [...]

Catherine Reagor, one of the Arizona Republic’s reporters on Arizona real estate, released this gem onto YouTube the other day and I had to repost it for your viewing pleasure. The guy can’t hold a beat, looks a little awkward, and he completely and almost purposefully ruins a great song, but it’s just so darned [...]

Just yesterday, we covered an article titled, “Can Ya Spare A Job Brother?” which covered the job losses on a national level, but today, AZFamily is bringing it down to a more local level here in the Valley of the Sun. Foreclosures, financial troubles and even layoffs; the housing bubble has begun to burst and [...]

Not only here in Arizona, but nationally, we’ve seen mortgage companies and real-estate related companies start to go belly up or start to liquidate their workforce. First Magnus/Great Southwest went bankrupt and lost their banking license, lenders are now being sued for the housing bubble blowup, and even one of the largest lenders, Countrywide, has [...]