Hi Marilyn, why does your husband want to buy in Phoenix? Where do YOU want to buy? What is your plan for the property? Are you going to spend 60 nights per year in it? Are you going to use it for 2 weeks and speculate that the market is going up? We were looking around Phoenix in the fall...

Before you buy or have any CFL`s installed you may want to search "Brandy Brigdes" of Prospect Maine or read this article that had let to thousands of articles and blogs since March 07 about the hazards of these little mercury bombs. http://ellsworthmaine.com/site/index.php?o...6&Itemid=31 I...

Well done, I paid $189 last week at Future Shop! Dan

Certainly nothing is cheap today but you might want to try and breakdown some the costs this way; Demo, hauling and tipping fees (at transfer station) for deck $500 Forming 2 set of stairs @ half day each using $45.00 labour...

Meggie, you are likely the best person to mitigate the damage here. If you don`t close, the Builder could, and may, dump the property at a great loss and he will come looking to you to for the spread between the fire sale price and your contract price. If you close on it, you will probably end...

Thanks Jayson, it`s great to have this information providied by a Realtor before we read about the numbers in the newspapers later in the month. Please continue to post the MLS stats as they become available to you. I hope you are buying all of your own listing! Cheers, Dan

Hi Merriora, Sorry to say but I am with Jeff on this one. The Atlantic oil Cartel (IRVING) doesn`t much care it crude is 80, 90 or 97. If they want an extra couple hundred million $$ this winter, you are going to pay more for heating oil. I would ask the question; if the Realtor pegs the...

Hi Pete, I would suggest you follow your intuition on this one. I agree with you that 16,000, or 1,333 per door is low for a building that needs windows ($2,000 per door w/slider) or deck repair (1,000-3,000 per door). To blow in additional insulation in the attic is a couple of hundred...