Choosing a Lot in a Master-Planned Community
When every plan is available on every lot, the lot is the decision.
Insights
HOA Design Review: What Gets Approved and What Doesn’t
A submission that works with the guidelines moves. One that ignores them stalls.
Permit History: What It Tells You About a House
Public, free, and one of the most revealing checks available.
Buying a Mid-Century Block Home: What the Structure Will Let You Do
The Valley’s most under-rated renovation stock, and how to tell a good one from a money pit.
Scrape or Renovate? How to Tell Which a Property Actually Is
Getting this wrong in either direction costs real money. The signals are readable.
What a Historic District Overlay Changes About Renovating
Not a reason to avoid these homes. A reason to plan differently.
What Actually Drives the Cost of Building on a Hillside Lot
The lot price is rarely the number that decides a hillside project.
Well, Septic and Utilities: Buying Rural Desert Land in Maricopa County
The assumptions that hold everywhere else in the Valley stop holding here.
Reading a Vacant Lot: Slope, Drainage, Access and Orientation
An hour on the parcel, asking the right questions, is worth more than any photograph.
Small Multifamily: The Systems That Decide the Deal
The photographs show the units. The economics live in the roof, the service and the sewer lateral.