Living in the Prescott Country Club is wonderful. We have the best weather in the country. We open our windows every night in the summer and have a gentle winter with little or no snow. The Prescott Country Club is a residential community of 1300 custom homes started in the 1970s. Each home offers a good view of the golf course, open land, or the surrounding Bradshaw Mountains. Lots range from about 1/4 acre to 1/2 acre. There is a small manufactured home section as well as duplex homes and townhomes. This variety offers choices of lifestyle and price ($70,000 to $700,000) for almost everyone to find a place to live.

Golden Rule “He who has the gold rules”
 What are you earning on the money you have in the bank? Not much? Here is a solution: If you are selling property and will take your money and put it in the bank just change your strategy. Buyers are having a difficult time securing financing today. That is especially true of the self employed. As a seller you could offer terms to the buyer and be the bank for them.  You would earn a lot more than the 1/2% the bank is …

Escrow Closing Procedures
Here is what is about to happen once the Buyer’s  loan is approved by the underwriter:

Loan documents are sent from lender to escrow company(title company)
Obtain your closing funds (remaining down payment and title and escrow fees) in the form of a certified check made out to the escrow company or wire them in (instructions on wiring are available from the escrow officer)
You sign documents at the escrow company and deliver the certified funds
Docs are sent back to the lender for review and approval
Lender wires funds to escrow(wiring can take 3-4 hours and …

EnergySmart Homes is a great local contractor. The homes they build are all pre-wired for solar electric and solar hot water with full solar systems optional. Live with virtually no utility bills and no carbon footprint! They are an Energy Star partner with APS, our power company, and build with Energy Star and the starting point for green living. With over 320 days a year of full sunshine this is the ideal location for solar living. See their site at www.energysmarthomesllc.com  It just makes good sense! Jerry Germansen is your …

United Blood Services held the annual Silent Heroes appreciation evening at Mesa’s Commemorative Air Force Museum on Friday April 9th. There were over 200 donors attending the event. Silent Heroes includes all the platelet donors in Arizona.
Scott Light of channel 12 news was the Master of Ceremonies for the evening. He introduced Lee Doerr, Congressional Medal of Honor winner. 86 year old Lee was just awarded the medal for her service in WWII as a Women Airforce Services Pilot (WASP) pilot. Lee spoke of her experiences delivering and relocating over …

WOW!  The weather in Central Arizona is excellent. We are so fortunate to have four mild seasons to enjoy.
I took the day off and went to Bartlet Lake about 20 miles northeast of Phoenix.  It is one of the most beautiful lakes you will ever see.  It is a desert lake surrounded by mounntains and saguaro cactus. The Verde River empties into the lake. It is usually a very clear lake and over 100 feet deep.
The first day out this season was fantastic. How lucky we are to be fishing …

The Arizona Department of Real Estate is endorsing a new Short Sale Seller’s Advisory prepared by the REALTORS of the State. For a copy click  Short Sale Seller’s Advisory where you will find multiple links and great advice for anyone who is looking to sell for less than they owe the bank on their mortgage loan.
The Prescott Quad-Cities, as well as the rest of the State of Arizona, needed the information made public to protect the consumer. The REALTORS of Arizona have delivered.
If you are looking to sell or buy under a …

C’Ann Simpson has developed an employee benefit program for any business, small or national. Call C’Ann to discuss what the Partner Member Program can do you for your business and your employees. It’s free to you and the employees as we are redirecting our funds to cover your employees’ closings costs. This amounts to hundreds of dollars in benefits from your company to your employees.
The program has beed places in businesses in Prescott, Prescott Valley, and Phoenix, Arizona. We are going coast to coast with our benefits package including not only employees …

WOW ! What a fantastic day. We left the house at 10 Am and headed for Jerome.  It’s a little mining town over 100 years old in the mountains 75 miles north of Phoenix. The weather was a perfect 65 degrees and the people were out in it. The drive took us from Dewey to Prescott Valley and over Mingus Mountain into the Verde Valley. The views are spectacular and the drive a blast in our Land Rover. I hugged the curves and used the shifter saving my breaks just in case …

Shared Wells
Shared wells are viewed positively by some and negatively by others. I hope to dispell some myths and tell it like it is. Water in central Arizona’s Prescott Quad-City area is a precious commodity. We live in an Active Management Area and under the law we cannot import or export our water. Shared wells have their place here.
Here are both sides of the story.
Negative Aspects:

Requires a cooperative effort between neighbors to conserve water.
One party could be viewed as using a disproportionate share of the water.
There is less self freedom
Requires …