Showing Snapshots – 1/21/11 through 1/24/11
I showed tons of property over the weekend. Here are some shots for my Nearly Wordless Wednesday.
Tempe on Friday:

A fabulous kitchen in a strange Tempe neighborhood. The houses were newish (2006) and highly upgraded in a Tuscan kind of way, but close together and to the street.
Chandler on Saturday:

This pool was so gross my buyer said even if it was drained and cleaned she didn't think she could ever swim in it. We wondered if there was a dead body at the bottom.

This house was really nicely repainted and recarpeted. It felt totally move-in ready. This doormat stain stood out as the last vestige of the previous owners

Seeing a half-filled pool makes me nervous. The people who know pools say in Arizona if a pool is left empty for more than a day or so it will need to be resurfaced because it will be irreparably damaged by the sun.
North Scottsdale on Sunday:

I loves me a margarita bar! (Any pool with swim up seating is a 'margarita bar', FYI.) If you buy a house like this with me as your agent, you can expect me to randomly show up at your house with my swimsuit and a pitcher of margaritas from time to time.

Whoever owned this large, pricey house before the bank foreclosed on it may have had some artistic talent, but absolutely no taste. There was a lot of effort put into making that drywall column look like stone. A lot of wasted effort.
And finally, Fountain Hills on Monday:
Faux finish in DC Ranch. Egads. Where in Tempe are the first ones?
It’s a neighborhood called Elliot Estates at Elliot and Rural. Tiny little thing. A bunch of the houses are in foreclosure because it was built at the peak of the market when they sold for $800K.