2012 Scottsdale Barrett-Jackson Collector Car
Auction
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Monday, January 16th -
Sunday, January 22nd 2012
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8:00am Auctions
Monday - Sunday
5:00pm Twilight Auctions
Tuesday - Saturday
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Westworld of Scottsdale
Scottsdale, Arizona
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Party
of the Century
Celebrate!
Celebrate!! Celebrate!!!
I'm just getting my chant ready because it's going to be time for merrymaking
like we've never seen before in less than nine years. That's when Arizona - America's
"Valentine" state - marks her 100th birthday. February 14, 2012, to
be exact. It's never too early to start planning.
The long road to statehood took nearly a half-century and was littered with
bodies and promises and little white lies and pleas and entreaties and angst.
So it's no wonder that the good folks of 1912 put on the best party Arizona had ever seen when President William Taft finally
signed the papers of statehood that Wednesday morning, making Arizona the 48th state.
"Arizona
will Don the Garb of Statehood," The Arizona Republican newspaper
proclaimed in its main story of the day. "Population is small but
it possesses the spirit that has made the West." Now, nearly 100 years
later, the population is large, but it still possesses the spirit of the West,
and so I think it's time we get serious about planning how we're going to
celebrate our centennial.
I've been asking friends around the state, and we've come up with some nifty
ideas and some lofty dreams. I'm hoping the bug
will spread, and everyone will start planning today for Arizona's birthday party in 2012.
But before we get to the partying part - to the grand ideas and ambitious
projects and fun events - we need to understand a little about what it is we're
celebrating.
In most states, you wouldn't need to do this part because everybody would know
the history. But Arizona
isn't like most states. It's not only a "new" state, but one in which
natives are as rare as a cool day in August. No, most Arizonans these days are
transplants, like me, who grew up elsewhere and studied some other state's
history in school (IOWA, in my case). So most folks who now call Arizona home don't have
a clue about what it took to gain statehood. Many think that Sharlot Hall is
just a museum in Prescott.
Well, friend, it's time you took a peek at the wild and wonderful story that
brought Arizona into the Union.
Nobody thought much of this desert-to-mountain Arizona Territory
that President Abraham Lincoln created on February 24, 1863. Someone said the
new Territory was just like Hell - all it needed was water and good society.
People here took umbrage (even though the statement was close to the truth),
and Arizona spent the next 49 years proving it had water and good society, and
a whole lot to add to these United States of America.
President Lincoln appointed territorial officers who could barely find this
place on a map, and they realized the wild new land demanded great effort just
to survive. They set up the first seat of government at Camp
Whipple in Chino Valley.
They were immediately confronted with Arizona's
"rough edges." For centuries, this land had been home to native
people of many tribes. (Many of the water canals we still use in the Valley
were built by the Hohokam, who vanished hundreds of years before white men ever
set foot on this land.) Navajos, Hopis, Apaches, Pimas… these people had their
own societies and their own traditions, but none of that mattered to the
"Manifest Destiny" philosophy of white settlers who saw this as
"open land" available for settlement. Clashes between whites and
Indians would go on for decades. They were bloody and awful.
Arizona also
was known as one of the renegade spots of the Old West, where "law and order"
was hard to come by. Gunfights in the streets, unpunished murders,
instantaneous hangings, unruly mobs and drunken louts - that was early Arizona.
Some notorious moments will live forever, like the gunfight at the OK Corral in
Tombstone in
1881 - perhaps the bloodiest 27 seconds in all of Western history. Then there
was the massive search for Geronimo and his "renegade" band that
refused to be relegated to a reservation - a full one-third of the entire U.S.
Army was sent to the Arizona
Territory to capture this
100-person band that included many women and children. (Geronimo eventually
surrendered in 1886.)
Notorious names like Wyatt Earp, Wild Bill Hickok, Pancho Villa, Bat Masterson
and Big Nose Kate populate the early days of Arizona history.
But so did Martha Summerhayes and Sharlot Hall and George W.P. Hunt and Carl
Hayden, all of whom worked tirelessly to "tame" this wild place.
As the 1800s came to a close, Arizona
didn't see being a territory as a badge, but as "bondage." It needed
the respectability and power of statehood, and efforts to get that began in
earnest in 1888. As historians note, this was a nonpartisan issue, Democrats
(who then ran the joint) and Republicans alike agreed on this when they could
agree on nothing else.
Ironically, the first stumbling block was this: Republican senators in Washington didn't want
another state run by Democrats. And the most powerful senator of them all -
Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana, chairman of the crucial Committee on
Territories - saw Arizona and New Mexico populated by "unlettered"
Mexicans and Indians, "who probably could not speak English and would be
poor risks as citizens," according to an Arizona Highways history called
"The Road to Statehood."
Senator Beveridge did come for an on-site visit in November 1902, but those who
watched the man in action were sure he came looking for ignorance, corruption
and sin (and feared he found all three). The Arizona Republican wistfully hoped
Beveridge found "a high degree of civilization" in Phoenix,
Tucson and Bisbee, but alas, he declared Arizona too sparsely
populated, too illiterate and too lawless for statehood. (They laughed out loud
in Washington when Arizona countered that someday it would have
200,000 residents - impossible, everyone else agreed.)
If you think we get upset these days about slights, you can imagine how furious
those "respectable Arizona
citizens" were when Congress dismissed their dreams of statehood. To add
insult to injury, Beveridge advanced the idea that maybe Arizona
and New Mexico
should be submitted as one state - one local pundit quipped that while
Beveridge was rejecting one rotten egg, he thought two rotten eggs would make a
good omelet. (Oh, those early folks had such a sense of irony.)
In 1906, the idea of "jointure" actually went to a vote: Folks in New Mexico favored it, but Arizona rejected it almost six to one. Into
this fray came an unmarried, feisty, determined, talented and independent woman
named Sharlot Hall, who made history as the first female to ever hold office in
Arizona when
she became territorial historian.
Hall was a Prescott girl (transplanted from the
Midwest), and her love and respect for Arizona
history would not only produce some wonderful books of both prose and poetry,
but would help assure Arizona
became a state. (And yes, Sharlot Hall Museum
in Prescott is
named in her honor to acknowledge all she did.)
Hall's impassioned writing about the virtues of this state and its massive
potential helped sway the day in Washington -
a copy of her stories was put on the desk of every lawmaker before a crucial
vote that finally allowed Arizona
to call a Constitutional Convention toward statehood.
It would be the most progressive constitution in the nation, with voting rights
for women, initiatives and referendums for the popular vote on crucial issues,
and a recall of judges. The last point wasn't acceptable to the president, and
until Arizona removed it, he wouldn't allow us
in. (But the year after we became a state, citizens reinserted recall - so
there, Washington.)
As the Arizona Highways history notes, Statehood Day was something to behold:
"At 10:23 a.m. Washington
time on St. Valentine's Day, motion picture cameras whirred for the first time
at an official presidential ceremony. Abruptly, in Phoenix,
a telegraph key clattered out the official message from the president: 'I have
this morning signed the proclamation declaring Arizona to be a state….'
"A stack of forty-eight sticks of dynamite echoed the people's approval in
Bisbee.
"In Globe, a cannon spoke forty-eight times.
"Engineers yanked whistle cords on boilers of locomotives, laundries,
factories, mines, creameries and mills.
"In Tucson, the siren at the waterworks
wailed, while University
of Arizona R.O.T.C.
cadets crisply executed close-order drills.
"In Prescott,
Whiskey Row raised a toast of firewater and pistol shots, and Arizona-born boys
and girls tossed handfuls of earth to nurture a native white oak transplanted
on the plaza [still standing to this day]. A parade marched around the Yavapai
County Courthouse.
"In Flagstaff,
a newsman wrote, 'Now, b'gosh, even the grub tastes better.'"
We're going to have to work hard to make a bigger splash than that.
My friend Jim Bishop wants every one of Arizona's
15 counties to have an official history written in honor of the centennial. And
what a varied history that would be. Remember, at statehood, the seat of power
wasn't Phoenix or even Maricopa
County, but Cochise
County in Southeastern Arizona, where
Bisbee and Tombstone
were major forces. Oh, they have such stories to tell.
Meanwhile, Jim Ballinger, who runs Phoenix
Art Museum, says he's already planning
a massive display of Arizona
art.
If Phil Boas of The Arizona Republic has his way, Arizona will sponsor a massive
"expo" that will bring visitors from all over the world.
Marjorie Rice of Wells Fargo Bank wants high school students to gather the oral
histories of old-time Arizonans.
Sue Gerard, who advises the governor on health issues, notes that fourth- and
eighth-graders in Arizona
study state history, and so those grades should be primed for special projects
to note the centennial.
Shelly Cohen, who runs the Arizona Arts Commission, sees the centennial as a
time to spotlight the great talents of Arizonans. She notes that during the
nation's centennial, each state was asked to sponsor a project to reflect the
nation's history. Arizona's project is a
fabulous mural at the Heard
Museum. Cohen notes that
"each city should do a project," and said it's important that this
not be "imposed" from the capital. "The art project would
recognize the diversity of each community," she says.
And let's not forget we've got Pioneer
Living History
Museum just north of Phoenix, which is a replica of an Old West
town - that should be a major part of this birthday. Of course, we still have
some actual Old West towns that look like they did in 1912, and the centennial
would be a great time for those restoration projects that have been put on the
back burner.
Retired lawmaker Jim Skelly would like to see Arizona's
media give us all a complete history of Arizona
throughout the entire year of 2012, starting in Territorial days and doing
in-depth stories about each decade of Arizona's
life. Considering that PHOENIX Magazine has produced some terrific perspective
issues to commemorate previous birthdays, I'm looking to them to once again
shine.
I'd also like to see a Symphony commissioned to honor our birthday, and also a
ballet. I think Arizona libraries should
spotlight Arizona
authors. The Heard
Museum, which tells the
history of Native Americans every day, should certainly do even more massive
projects. And if this isn't a moment made for Arizona's historical societies, nothing is.
I also want to see a copper coin minted for the centennial - and it could be a
nice little fund-raiser for some special project that would be a lasting
reminder of our 100th birthday. (Not a statue, please, but something
"living" that would continue to benefit our state.)
It would also be great to have a medallion or door knocker made of copper -
since we're the nation's No. 1 producer - that could be sold to homeowners like
me who'd adore having our homes carry an historical adornment.
If Prescott children
could plant a tree 100 years ago, how many trees or parks could we create for
our birthday?
If we want to be authentic, we won't have a "ball" or a
"dance," but a "fandango," which is what they called dances
in those days. We'll have giant picnics and ice cream socials and bands in the
streets, and parades.
As you can see, once you start thinking, the ideas keep coming. I just realized
that in 2012, I'll be what they call a senior citizen. But that's OK. I'll
still be up for a great fandango!
http://www.janabommersbach.com/phx-mag-sept03.php
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We hope the
beginning of the New Year is going well. I wanted to start this year out with
some VERY interesting statistics from 2011 to begin thinking about 2012.
There were 10,000 more sales in
2011 than 2010.
Total ARMLS residential sales in
2011 were over 100,000. This is only the second time sales hit over 100,000 for
a year. The first time and all time record for the number of residential sales
was 104,133 in 2005.
Short sales increased seventeen
percent in 2011 over 2010. There was less than a one percent difference in
lender-owned sales in 2011 compared to 2010.
How were
properties purchased? The king was cash. Forty-seven percent of properties
purchased in 2011 were cash. Twenty-seven percent were conventional loans,
twenty-one percent were FHA guaranteed loans and three percent were VA
guaranteed loans.
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Desert
Ridge area to become bioscience, tech hub
Efforts are under way to
develop the Desert Ridge area south of Loop 101 into a bioscience and
technology hub, just days after Mayor Greg Stanton announced plans for the
Desert Ridge Bioscience Technology Collaborative.
According to Dr. Wyatt
Decker, chief executive of the Mayo Clinic in Arizona, more concrete plans could take form
within six months, although full development of the plan is likely to take much
longer.
"We worked with the
mayor to develop the concept," Decker said, "and we are pleased with
his support for Mayo."
Mayo Hospital is the
key medical facility in northeast Phoenix.
It occupies 210 acres at 56th
Street and Mayo Boulevard, south of Loop 101. It opened in 1998.
Under the Desert Ridge
Specific Plan, development in the area between 56th and 64th streets, Loop 101
and the Central Arizona Project canal must be related to or supportive of
medical uses, including retail and residential.
Stanton's plan, announced during his inauguration speech on
Tuesday, would expand that idea west to Tatum Boulevard. Some non-medical users
already are in place in the area, including American Express and Sumco, which
manufactures silicon wafers for the microprocessing and computer industries.
Decker said
representatives from Mayo, Arizona
State University
and the Mayor's Office have begun working on the next steps. They want to
develop a "clear vision" for the future, while showing
"meaningful progress" as soon as they can, Decker said.
He foresees medical
startups based on ideas generated at Mayo, ASU or elsewhere.
Maria Baier, who as state
land commissioner controls most of the vacant property, said Stanton told her of his idea, but she does
not have a lot of detail yet. "I told him I would do everything I can to
be supportive," she said. "This idea is quite visionary and positive
for the community."
She said there has been
plenty of interest in the land throughout the Desert Ridge and Paradise Ridge
areas -- large, mostly undeveloped tracts of land along Loop 101 in northeast Phoenix.
"The question is
whether we bring it out now or wait for recovery," she said. "You
typically would not dispose of property in a down market."
The Arizona State Land
Department manages the State Land Trust and controls 9.2million acres after
selling or leasing 1.6 million acres. The department is required to
"enhance value and optimize economic return" on the land for its
beneficiaries, primarily public schools.
"We want the trust
to realize the appreciation of value in a better market," Baier said.
She said some of the land
in question already has restrictions, including a ban on buildings that would
block the view of the Mayo Clinic from the freeway. The department could come
to an agreement with the city to determine how the land could be used.
Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/2012/01/08/20120108desert-ridge-bioscience-tech-hub.html#ixzz1izasiDDD
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Positive Market Report Sends Housing
Stocks Soaring
Good news spread Thursday for home builders, home
improvement companies, and mortgage lenders, as stocks ticked up after the
National Association of REALTORS® released a new report showing that pending home
sales in November reached their
highest level in a year-and-a-half.
Pending home sales — a gauge for the future of the market
— increased 7.3 percent in November to a reading of 100.1, NAR reported in its
index. (A reading of 100 is considered healthy for the real estate market.)
Analysts are predicting that 2012 will mark a turnaround
for the real estate market, after years of a drastic slowdown in activity.
Stocks inched up on Thursday for several home builders.
For example, Hovnanian Enterprises Inc., saw the biggest rise in shares
following Thursday’s report, with shares increasing 9 cents, or nearly 7
percent, to trade at $1.39. Also, homebuilders D.R. Horton Inc. saw shares rise
45 cents, or 3.7 percent, to $12.65; Lennar Corp. added 77 cents, or 4.1
percent, to $19.75; and PulteGroup Inc. gained 28 cents, or 4.8 percent, to
$6.24, the Associated Press reported.
Also, mortgage companies also saw an increase to their
stocks. For example, Bank of America shares increased 11 cents, or 2.1 percent,
to $5.40 on Thursday while Huntington
increased 16 cents, or 2.8 percent, to $5.63; and Wells Fargo shares jumped 55
cents, or 2 percent, to $27.66.
Source: “Housing Stocks Up on Pending Sales
Report,” Associated Press (Dec. 29, 2011)
http://realtormag.realtor.org/daily-news/2011/12/30/positive-market-report-sends-housing-stocks-soaring
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Holiday mail for "HEROES" was a huge success.... We mailed 1.5 pounds of post cards to the American Red Cross....
The Holiday mail for "HEROES - holiday cards will be delivered to members of the military, veterans and their families who are away from home this holiday season.....
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Iowa, Oklahoma return to Phoenix area for 2011 Insight Bowl
Hawkeyes beat Missouri 27-24 in last year's Insight Bowl in Tempe
SCOTTSDALE -- The Insight Bowl passed on taking Penn State, instead going with two teams that had been to the desert recently.
Given the Fiesta Bowl's troubles and the scandal at Penn State, taking Oklahoma and Iowa seemed like the safest bet.
"We considered Iowa a great opponent and with what they (Penn State) had been through, this wasn't the best year," said Duane Woods, board chairman for the Fiesta Bowl, which operates the Insight Bowl.
The Fiesta Bowl had a rough year that included financial improprieties, an attempted cover-up and the firing of president John Junker.
Penn State's campus swirled with controversy stemming from the alleged sexual abuse of children by assistant coach Jerry Sandusky, which led to the firing of longtime coach Joe Paterno.
Combining one scandal with another wasn't the best idea, so the Insight Bowl became one of five bowls to pass on the Nittany Lions.
The result pits two good teams who'll be playing in the desert for the second straight bowl season.
Iowa (7-5) beat Missouri 27-24 in last year's Insight Bowl for its school-record third straight bowl win.
Oklahoma (9-3) also played in the Valley of the Sun last year, routing Connecticut 48-10 in the Fiesta Bowl.
This year, they'll meet Dec. 30 in Tempe at Arizona State's Sun Devil Stadium, hoping to turn around seasons that have fizzled at the end.
"It is hard to finish. It's exciting," Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz said. "And the other sidebar, obviously, is Oklahoma has a great tradition, great football team."
Oklahoma opened the season at No. 1 and got off to a great start, winning its first six games, including a rout over Red River rival Texas. The Sooners took a hit with a loss to Texas Tech on Oct. 22 and another three games later by losing a shootout to Baylor.
Despite the letdowns, Oklahoma still had a shot at winning its eighth Big 12 title and earn a BCS bowl berth. Those hopes came crashing down Saturday night, when the Sooners were routed 44-10 by Bedlam rival Oklahoma State.
The BCS hopes gone, Oklahoma is hoping to at least end the season on a good note.
"It'll be important," said Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops, a former Iowa player. "We'll have a lot to get straight. We have a lot to correct. I don't know if bowl practices will be enough to get it done, but we'll see how they respond."
Iowa faded down the stretch last season after being ranked in the top 10 to end up in the Insight Bowl, then had 13 players hospitalized for undisclosed conditions related to an offseason workout, leading to criticism of Ferentz and the program.
The Hawkeyes battled through the adversity and some tough stretches this year to become bowl eligible for the 11th straight season, though two losses in their final three games knocked them down the Big Ten pecking order and into the Insight Bowl for the second straight year.
"We're looking forward to returning there for obvious reasons," Ferentz said. "Very much like last year, we have a tough draw, a great challenge on our hands -- we're playing another great team from the Big 12 Conference."
Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/sports/colleges/articles/2011/12/04/20111204insight-bowl-2012-iowa-oklahoma.html#ixzz1gLXXxWRL
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Greater Phoenix
Holiday Lights - December 2011
See These Christmas Lights All Month Long
There
are hundreds of holiday celebrations in the Phoenix,
AZ area that last for one or two days, but
these Phoenix
area holiday light displays can be enjoyed throughout the month of December,
and sometimes even into January.
You
could celebrate every day of the holiday season and never get to all the
festivities!
Arizona
Celebration of Lights
Saturday,
November 19 through Sunday, January 1, 2012. Includes more than 7,000,000
lights and 300 animated and still displays. You stay in your car and drive
through it. The organizers boast that it is Arizona's largest display of holiday lights.
They anticipate that during this holiday season, about 15,000 cars will pass
through the display. Here is
a map.
See
photos of the Arizona Celebration of Lights.
Glendale
Glitters
November
25 through January 14, 2012 from 6 to 10 p.m. Historic Downtown Glendale comes
to life each holiday season with about 1.5 million multi-colored twinkling
holiday lights located throughout a twelve-block area that includes the Old
Towne and Catlin Court Districts. There is no cost to walk or drive around the
area. Downtown
Glendale.
See
pictures of Glendale Glitters.
Las
Noches de las Luminarias
December
1 through 30, 2011. Each year during the holiday season the Desert Botanical Garden
lines the paths of this extraordinary desert garden with thousands of
luminarias. Food and beverage are available, live entertainment. A quiet,
charming, romantic event, not necessarily for the kids. Desert Botanical Garden,
Phoenix. This
is a ticketed event, advance reservations suggested. See
a picture gallery of Las Noches de las Luminarias at the Desert Botanical
Garden.
McCormick-Stillman
Railroad Park Holiday Lights
Friday,
December 9 through Friday, December 30, 2011. (Closed December 24 and 25) Take
a train ride through many festive holiday lights and displays turning the Railroad Park into a winter wonderland. Train and
carousel rides are $2 each with children under three riding free with a paying
adult. 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. 7301 E.
Indian Bend Rd., Scottsdale.
McCormick-Stillman
Railroad Park Holiday Photos
Thursday,
November 24 through Saturday, December 31, 2011. The annual Mesa Temple Garden
Christmas Lights display conveys peace and goodwill of the season with a unique
and spectacular exhibit of hundreds of thousands of colorful lights. Free
admission, free parking. Mesa.
See
pictures of the Mesa Arizona Temple Gardens Christmas Lights
ZooLights
at the Phoenix Zoo
Thursday,
November 24 through Sunday, January 8, 2012. Each year the Phoenix Zoo puts up
an amazing holiday display of lights. The event is called ZooLights. Because
ZooLights happens in the evening, don't expect to see many live animals. This
event is about holiday lights, music and lighted animal sculptures. There is an
admission charge.
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Phoenix foreclosures at lowest percentage
of market since spring '09
Foreclosures, as a percentage of the Phoenix metro housing market, reached
their lowest level since April 2009, according to a report from the W.
P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State
University.
Foreclosures made up 26% of the existing-home transactions in the Greater
Phoenix market in October, down from 29% in September, according to the report,
released Monday. Foreclosures made up 43% of the area’s single-family
existing-home transactions in January, according to the report.
"Though the local housing market is beginning to produce some positive
movement, the surrounding economic environment and anemic growth are still
inhibiting consumer confidence," said Business Professor Emeritus Jay Butler.
"Just because we’re seeing a drop in foreclosures, that doesn’t mean we have a
healthy housing market. Other types of activity and purchases are not
increasing, in order to push us forward."
Butler also noted that the numbers only look at recorded foreclosures. “Many
more foreclosures may be lingering in the pipeline just because more paperwork
and rules are being followed in the process now,” he said.
October marked the lowest number of completed foreclosures in quite a while.
The market had 1,900 completed foreclosures in October, down from almost 2,300
in September. There were almost 3,400 completed foreclosures in October 2010.
The last time the number of completed foreclosures dipped below 2,000 in a
single month was back in February 2008.
Overall activity in the Phoenix-area housing market is also down. The market
had slightly more than 7,200 transactions in October, down from almost 8,000
transactions in September. That’s partly due to the season as housing sales tend
to slow down during the fall and winter months.
The median price for a single-family home resold (not new foreclosures) in
the Phoenix market in October was $125,000, down from last October’s median of
$135,000.
Read more: http://www.housingwire.com/2011/11/14/phoenix-foreclosures-at-lowest-percentage-of-market-since-spring-09
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Arizona home
buyers face complicated hunt
Those fortunate enough to be eligible buyers
during the first eight months of 2010 often faced a long, frustrating house
hunt that left them feeling less like the hunters and more like the prey.
The home-buying process has gotten so complicated
that even the most experienced real-estate agents have been forced to seek
additional training and expert advice, said Candice Boggs - Top Agent for
Arizona Homes Realty, LLC.
Mrs. Boggs’ said the extensive
documentation prospective buyers must provide to qualify for a home loan dwarfs
anything boom-era lenders had required.
On top of having to meet strict financial
requirements, house hunters in 2010 must be willing to make sacrifices in the
process.
• New homes generally cost the most and take a few
months to build, but they offer total customization, a helpful seller and
little to no buyer competition.
• Investor-owned homes generally come with
cosmetic repairs already completed, and investors frequently offer the most
flexible financing options. But buyers still need to be wary of possible wear
or damage underneath the fresh paint and carpeting. And in some cases, buying
from an investor can trigger more stringent creditworthiness requirements.
• Short sales promise bargain prices, and in many
cases the homes are in excellent condition. However, they involve lots of extra
paperwork and a negotiation process that can take months with no guarantees that the
sale will go through.
• Bank-owned homes generally cost the least - a
savvy buyer can wind up paying a small fraction of the home's previous market
price. Still, they come "as is," which frequently means they are
completely trashed, the seller is often slow-moving and unresponsive, and intense
competition from cash-paying investors can push traditional buyers repeatedly
to the back of the line.
Four recent homebuyers, each of whom made a choice
different from the others, demonstrate how the buyer's financial and life
circumstances often dictate the home they buy.
New home
As a working single mother of three about to send
her youngest off to college, recent new-home buyer Kim Parsons said she was
more than happy to pay a little more for a new home that was easy to buy and
came with a warranty.
"I am looking at (paying for) college and
tuition next year and I didn't want any unexpected costs," said Parsons,
who said she was finally in a position to buy after renting her whole adult
life.
Parsons chose to buy a four-bedroom home in west Phoenix from Los
Angeles-based KB Home after a fruitless, six-month effort to buy a bank-owned
home, an experience Parsons described as dehumanizing.
"It was pretty much the worst experience of
my life," she said.
Parsons said the process of buying a new home was
not entirely stress-free - there was a moment of uncertainty when the home's
appraisal came in lower than the agreed-upon price.
However, Parsons said they reached a compromise -
a small price to pay for feeling human again.
"It was what I expected the first time,"
she said.
Short sale
Once their hearts were set on living in upscale,
family-oriented Ahwatukee Foothills, a suburban area of Phoenix, the McGrews' options immediately
became limited.
Mike McGrew, who recently completed a stint in the
U.S. Army and now works for a defense contractor, said there were few new homes
for sale in the community, and many existing homes on the market were listed by
unmotivated sellers who had not yet accepted that their homes were no longer
worth 2007 prices.
All signs seemed to be pointing Mike and Shea
McGrew toward a short sale.
They recently moved into a beautiful home -
vacated weeks earlier by its formerly upside-down owner - in a quiet,
family-friendly neighborhood.
But finding the short-sale home and closing the
deal took the McGrews a full year.
While they are happy with the new home, both
acknowledged the presence of a few nagging frustrations.
For one, they will have to pay for repairs on
their new home, which is usually the seller's job.
The McGrews know firsthand, because they just paid
for repairs on the home they sold in Kansas,
where Mike was stationed.
Perhaps even more frustrating was watching the
backyard die and the pool go green while they were waiting for the short-sale
paperwork to go through.
"I snuck in a couple of times to water the
plants," Mike said.
Fix and flip
Amanda Sanders is another casualty of the battle
for a bank-owned home, which she said cash-paying investors clearly won a long
time ago.
After nearly a year in which one offer after
another was rejected in favor of an investor's cash bid, Sanders and her
fiance, Blake Barganski, decided a conditional surrender was the way to go.
The couple decided they would try one last offer,
this time on a home near Queen Creek that had been purchased and renovated by a
large real-estate investment firm.
"It was either we get the next house, or we
live in an apartment for the rest of our lives," Sanders said.
Thankfully, the former enemy turned out to be benevolent,
once Sanders and Barganski had accepted their fate as retail buyers on the
foreclosure food chain.
The seller, Aliya Investments, is a large real
estate-investment firm based in Phoenix
that sold more than $12 million worth of Phoenix-area homes during the past
year, according to Linda Vejnoska, company spokeswoman.
Sanders said buying from an investment firm was
actually a good experience, especially compared with competing against one.
"When my Realtor called his Realtor, they
actually called back the same day," she said.
The couple said they liked the Pinal County
home, which looked like new and didn't require any fixing up.
The only snag, a minor one, was that Sanders had
to clean up a few outstanding credit issues because even though she had been approved for a Federal
Housing Administration-backed mortgage, the lender's credit-score requirements
jumped 40 points when it learned she would be buying from a fix-and-flip
investor.
Fix and flip, Part 2
Ken Burck Enterprises is another real-estate
investment company currently buying and flipping bank-owned homes.
OK, one home.
But Scottsdale-based investor Ken Burck, a
chiropractor, and his wife, Roseanne, who does the books, also have nearly a
dozen rental properties and say they have learned enough about how the game
works to earn a tidy profit.
The Burcks have enough money socked into their
side business that
they can buy modestly priced homes with cash, fix
them up and then sell or rent them, depending on the demand.
Still, Burck recognizes there are pitfalls even
seasoned veterans could fall into.
For instance, Burck learned by attending a seminar
that the smart investor looks for homes that need cosmetic work but nothing
structural, which would be very expensive to fix.
Even with enough cash flow to keep buying and
fixing homes, Burck is limited by his busy schedule and the fact that he does
most of the renovation and landscaping work himself.
But staying small is also his strength. Burck
recently bought a bank-owned home in north Phoenix for $56,000 - a no-hassle transaction
in which he paid cash.
After putting an estimated $15,000 into renovation
and landscaping, Burck said he planned to list the home for $94,000, sell it,
and then start again.
Burck says, at the rate he's going, he isn't too
worried about reports of a bank moratorium on foreclosed-home sales.
"There are so many vacant homes out there
already," he said.
Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/business/realestate/articles/2010/10/17/20101017biz-az-home-prices-2010-value.html#ixzz1cI89m1NG
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Wedding Registries for Home Downpayments?
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Forget the toasters and champagne flutes: More engaged couples are doing a different type of wedding registry that allows them to collect cash for a down payment on a home, according to a recent article in The Washington Times.
Dana Ostomel, founder of Deposit a Gift in New York City, says that about 15 percent of their registries are to raise down-payment funds for a home and another 15 percent are for home-improvement funds to pay for upgrades like a new roof or furniture.
"Given that 75 percent of today's engaged couples already live together and are older, very often they are already established with the household basics that you find on a traditional registry," Ostomel said. "What they want is the gift of big-ticket items and longer term goals, like the gift of home ownership.”
The FHA permits gifts from a wedding to be used as a down payment, but lenders are required to document that the funds are gifts. About 27 percent of first-time home buyers use gift money from relatives and friends for a down payment, according to a 2010 National Association of REALTORS® Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers survey.
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Obama Offers Mortgage Relief On Western Trip
Obama To Promote
New Steps To Help Housing Woes - According to an administration official, Obama's housing
initiative will help homeowners with little or no equity in their homes
refinance by cutting the cost of doing so and removing caps for deeply underwater
borrowers. The new rules apply to homeowners with federally guaranteed
mortgages who are current on their payments. With the president's jobs bill
struggling in Congress, the White House is refocusing its efforts on steps
Obama can take to address the nation's economic woes without getting lawmakers'
approval.
President Barack Obama offered mortgage relief on Monday to
hundreds of thousands of Americans, his latest attempt to ease the economic and
political fallout of a housing crisis that has bedeviled him as he seeks a
second term.
"I'm here to say that we can't wait for an increasingly dysfunctional
Congress to do its job," the president declared outside a family home in Las
Vegas, the epicenter of foreclosures and joblessness. "Where they won't act, I
will."
Making a case for his policies and a new effort to circumvent roadblocks put
up by Republican lawmakers, Obama also laid out a theme for his re-election,
saying that there's "no excuse for all the games and the gridlock that we've
been seeing in Washington."
"People out here don't have a lot of time or a lot of patience for some of
that nonsense that's been going on in Washington," he said.
The new rules for federally guaranteed loans represent a recognition that
measures the administration has taken so far on housing have not worked as well
as expected.
His jobs bill struggling in Congress, Obama tried a new catchphrase — "We
can't wait" — to highlight his administrative initiatives and to shift blame to
congressional Republicans for lack of action to boost employment and stimulate
an economic recovery.
Later in the week, Obama plans to announce measures to make it easier for
college graduates to pay back federal loans. Such executive action allows Obama
to address economic ills and other domestic challenges in spite of Republican
opposition to most of his proposals.
While Obama has proposed prodding the economy with payroll tax cuts and
increased spending on public works and aid to states, he has yet to offer a
wholesale overhaul of the nation's housing programs. Economists point to the
burst housing bubble as the main culprit behind the 2008 financial crisis.
Meanwhile, the combination of unemployment, depressed wages and mortgages that
exceed house values has continued to put a strain on the economy.
While the White House tried to avoid predicting how many homeowners would
benefit from the revamped refinancing program, the Federal Housing Finance
Agency estimated an additional 1 million people would qualify. Moody's Analytics
say the figure could be as high as 1.6 million.
Under Obama's proposal, homeowners who are still current on their mortgages
would be able to refinance no matter how much their home value has dropped below
what they still owe.
"Now, over the past two years, we've already taken some steps to help folks
refinance their mortgages," Obama said, listing a series of measures. "But we
can do more."
At the same time, Obama acknowledged that his latest proposal will not do all
that's not needed to get the housing market back on its feet. "Given the
magnitude of the housing bubble, and the huge inventory of unsold homes in
places like Nevada, it will take time to solve these challenges," he said.
In spelling out the plan to homeowners in a diverse, working-class Las Vegas
neighborhood, Obama chose a state that provides the starkest example of the toll
the housing crisis has exacted from Americans. One in every 118 homes in the
state of Nevada received a foreclosure notice in September, the highest ratio in
the country, according to the foreclosure listing firm RealtyTrac.
Obama visited the home of Jose and Lissette Bonilla, two grocery store
workers whose house was refurbished under a program paid for by the original
2009 economic stimulus plan. The program was designed to stabilize communities
hit by foreclosures or abandonment. Lissette Bonilla said she told the president
that without his stimulus plan, the five members of her family would still be
living in a one-bedroom apartment.
Presidential spokesman Jay Carney criticized Republican presidential
candidate Mitt Romney for proposing last week while in Las Vegas that the
government not interfere with foreclosures. "Don't try to stop the foreclosure
process," Romney told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. "Let it run its course and
hit the bottom."
"That is not a solution," Carney told reporters on Air Force One. He said
Romney would tell homeowners, "'You're on your own, tough luck.'"
The president also was using his visit to Las Vegas to promote a $15 billion
neighborhood revitalization plan contained in his current jobs proposal that
would help redevelop abandoned and foreclosed properties and stabilize affected
neighborhoods.
The Nevada stop was the first leg of a three-day tour of Western states,
blending his pitch for boosting the economy with an aggressive hunt for campaign
cash.
From Nevada, Obama will head for the glamor of Hollywood and the homes of
movie stars Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas and producer James Lassiter
for some high-dollar fundraising. On Tuesday, he will tape an appearance on "The
Tonight Show" with Jay Leno. He will also raise money in San Francisco and in
Denver.
Before the president addressed his mortgage refinancing plan, he attended a
fundraiser at the luxurious Bellagio hotel, offering a sharp contrast between
well-to-do who are fueling his campaign and the struggling homeowners hoping to
benefit from his policies.
The mortgage assistance plan by the Federal Housing Finance Agency will help
borrowers with little or no equity in their homes, many of whom are stuck with 6
or 7 percent mortgage rates, to seek refinancing and take advantage of lower
rates. The FHFA plans to remove caps that had allowed homeowners to refinance
only if they owed up to 25 percent more than their homes are worth.
The refinancing program is being extended until the end of 2013. It was
originally scheduled to end in June 2012.
The administration's incremental steps to help homeowners have prompted even
the president's allies to demand more aggressive action.
Rep. Dennis Cardoza, a moderate Democrat from California, gave voice to
Democratic frustration on the housing front last week when he announced his
decision not to seek re-election, blaming the Obama administration directly for
not addressing the crisis.
"I am dismayed by the administration's failure to understand and effectively
address the current housing foreclosure crisis," Cardoza said in a statement
that drew widespread attention. "Home foreclosures are destroying communities
and crushing our economy, and the administration's inaction is infuriating."
Obama's new "We can't wait" slogan is his latest in a string of stump-speech
refrains he hopes will pressure Republicans who oppose his $447 billion jobs
package. He initially exhorted Congress to "Pass this bill!" then demanded "I
want it back," all in the face of unanimous Republican opposition in the Senate,
though even some Democrats were unhappy with the plan.
Obama has now agreed to break the proposal into its component parts and seek
congressional approval one measure at a time. The overall proposal would
increase taxes on millionaires, lower payroll taxes on workers and businesses
for a year, pay for bridge, road and school construction projects, and help
states and local governments retain teachers and emergency workers.
The proposals with the best chance of passage are the payroll tax cuts and
extensions in jobless insurance to the long-term unemployed.
Countering Obama's criticism, GOP leaders say the sluggish economy and
stubbornly high unemployment rate are the result of failed Obama administration
policies.
"It's another day in the campaign life of President Obama, and he's bringing
his re-election tour to Nevada, ground zero for the damaging effects of his
failed economic policies," Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus
said Monday.
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Relocation Guide - Phoenix Overview
Thanksgiving dinner on the patio, New Year's hikes
up South Mountain. Two thriving downtowns and
another awakening. More manageable mortgages and mountain views.
Phoenix-area residents tote thick brag books on
their hometown, adopted as it may be. And they're not just filled with sunny
skies and sparkling swimming pools.
Where weather was long the area's main appeal- and
remains a big seller - the attraction has broadened.
There is a lifestyle for virtually everyone but
diehard New Yorkers and their big-city brethren.
Like sports? Phoenix
fields a team in every major professional sport- you might spot Diamondbacks
pitcher Randy Johnson at the Paradise Valley Blimpies, chatting with former
D-back fan favorite Luis Gonzalez. There is also a rich college rivalry in Arizona State
University vs. the University of Arizona
and several national sporting events including the Fiesta Bowl, FBR Open and
two NASCAR races.
Outdoor enthusiasts have a ring of mountains to
choose from, not to mention the incomparable Grand Canyon
a few hours away.
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Sarah moved here from Cedar Rapids Iowa with her family in the summer of
2009 and was instantly wowed by the breadth of outdoor activities. The mother
of three school-age children hikes three or four times a week.
"The hiking is just awesome," she said.
The area's upscale restaurants rival those in
culinary hotspots, and there are chains galore for families and the budget
minded.
You can order the country's best gourmet pizza or
Mexican food that has seared the mouths of presidents, sip high tea or a
$10,000 margarita.
Many chain restaurants and stores have their
highest-volume restaurants in the Phoenix
area, guaranteeing a first look at the latest trends. Chinese food favorite
P.F. Chang's started here and has spawned other Asian-food offshoots.
There's an unparalleled collection of upscale
resorts, which locals flock to in the summer when rates drop by more than half
(and temperatures climb).
There are theaters and concert venues in every
pocket of the region and the world-class Heard
Museum and Phoenix Art Museum.
On the job front, no metropolitan area can match
Greater Phoenix's job growth. Real-estate and service jobs reign supreme, but
efforts to diversify have drawn a promising new cluster of biotech companies
and research.
Housing prices aren't the bargain they were just a
few years ago, but the area remains relatively affordable. The median house
price in Greater Phoenix is $122,900. That is above the overall U.S. median price of $172,600 but far below San Diego at $350,400, Los Angeles
at $390,300, Miami at $140,800 Las
Vegas at $117,100 and on par with Denver's $197,900.
The landscape is ever evolving. Living here is
like watching a work in progress. The Phoenix
of today is nothing like that which greeted newcomers even a decade ago.
Where else can you watch a city that is already
the nation's fifth-largest unfold in front of you? Downtown Phoenix
is in the midst of a long-hoped-for renaissance, with a $1.4 billion light-rail
project, sprawling new convention center and hotels, the relocation of key Arizona State University
programs and proposals for a teaching hospital.
Newcomers will hardly feel alone. Metropolitan Phoenix gets 100,000 of
them every year, more than double the national average. Sports bars stake
claims as the headquarters of teams from back home, and "Where are you
from?" is as common as "Where do you live?"
Homesickness is not likely because friends and
family are within easy reach.
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US Airways and Southwest Airlines each offer more
than 200 daily flights, providing non-stop service to cities around the country
and in Mexico and Canada. They
shuttle visitors here and residents back home.
Those new to the West will find an exciting lineup
of vacation spots. Mexican beaches are just a four-hour drive away, while San Diego and other Southern
California favorites are a one-hour flight or five- or six-hour
drive.
There are hourly flights to Las
Vegas every day of the week and San Francisco,
Lake Tahoe and are all doable in a weekend.
You don't have to leave the state to get away, of
course. Arizona
boasts dramatic geographical diversity. Tourism folks like to brag about being
able to ski in the morning (in Flagstaff or the White Mountains) and swim in the afternoon. Sedona,
Jerome, Prescott and Tucson, each with their own appeal, are easy
day trips.
Sarah said the diversity was among her biggest
surprises about Arizona.
"It isn't just desert," she said.
"It's amazing how you can get to whatever you want to quickly. You can
feel like you're in Colorado
in an hour. You can go skiing, you can go fishing."
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