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Laveen 48th St Offer Accepted; Home Walkthrough, Home Inspection

By |2019-06-23T08:02:14+00:00June 23rd, 2019|

Yesterday we made an offer on house in Laveen on 48th St and today the offer was accepted. Previously we had been frustrated on how difficult it was to buy a house in the HOT Phoenix market. Here’s just one local example from the “Gilbert Sun News’ on records being set in May 2019 [...]

Frustration – Leads to Making an Offer Sight Unseen

By |2019-06-17T19:01:51+00:00June 15th, 2019|

It is HOT in Phoenix! Both our first 112 deg F (44.4 deg C) day and the housing market. I am frustrated at not being able to buy a property. If you wait to see the place there are already multiple offers. So, we decided to change our strategy and make offers; sight unseen, based [...]

Opportunity Cost – All Opportunities

By |2019-05-29T06:37:21+00:00May 29th, 2019|

Earlier we discussed the concept of 'opportunity cost' primarily in the financial sense. But opportunity cost applies to all of life's choices. If you marry one person, you pass up the opportunity to marry another. If you vacation in the Caribbean on a cruise, you pass up the opportunity to ski in Switzerland. If you [...]

Me and Sherman – Michelle Is Put in Double Secret Probation

By |2019-05-24T05:50:33+00:00May 23rd, 2019|

Thanks for the response, Sherman. We met Sherman at the local rose society meeting in December 2018. He immediately recognized Michelle as a fellow property manager since he had seen her in Lowe’s buying refrigerators all the time. Between the roses and the property management, we had a lot to talk about. One critical [...]

That’s the Way the Cookie Crumbles; End of the OREO

By |2019-05-21T20:00:31+00:00May 14th, 2019|

Previously we made a low ball offer on a house in Mesa. We had toured the house and determined that there was significant work necessary to bring it into rentable condition; perhaps 20 to 30 thousand dollars. Also, there was something weird going on with the audio/visual wiring. The Roca house was bank owned, an [...]

Five Great Reason to Use a Property Manager or “Avoiding the Second Story Jumper”

By |2019-05-01T06:16:50+00:00April 19th, 2019|

Sherman Weekes, Property Manager Here’s a typical story from Michelle on operating as your own property manager. Cops show up at Apartment 2xx, on the second story. They have a warrant for resisting arrest and assaulting an officer. They knock and announce. Usually this is a no-knock situation. Break down the door [...]

Our March Score and 9 Better Ways to Get Rich

By |2019-07-25T19:16:02+00:00April 17th, 2019|

At the End of March 2019 Our results to date are reported on a monthly basis on the “Score” table on the Home page. We give you the current total value of TheMonopolyProject (TMP) as a combination of cash held (bank deposits) and the estimated equity (current market value minus any loans) of the [...]

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