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Phoenix rental trend: big houses
Skip the space-starved apartments in the city and target your rental search towards houses for rent in Phoenix. Rentals in Phoenix are more popular than ever. Apartments don’t stay on the market long and rent rates rise every month the take advantage of the demand. Partly to accommodate the lack of traditional rentals and partly [...]
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Keep it local: Phoenix has a good thing going on
The past decade has brought on the popularity of an encouraging movement all across the U.S. You may have heard or seen the recently popular slogan, “buy local, think global”, intended to encourage consumers to support local business rather than support multi-national chains. Since the day Sam Walton began cloning his Wal-Mart concept, small businesses [...]
Antique \ Arizona \ Mesa \ Scottsdale \ Shopping
A novice’s guide to antique shopping
My friend is getting married and I am the maid of honor. This of course means that I am required to do anything she wants me to do in the name of The Wedding. One such request was to take her to several antique shops all over Phoenix while she was in town. I had [...]
Playing it safe for that perfect tan
Today at the dermatologist’s office I took full advantage of my co-pay and decided to ask the ultimate tanning question, “which is worse, tanning in the sun or tanning in a sun bed?” After the subsequent 3-minute lecture on the very thought of tanning he finally copped the answer, tanning beds are in fact much [...]
Arizona \ Petrified Forest National Park
Becoming a local tourist: Petrified National Forest
A while back, I wrote a blog post encouraging ‘Zonies to become local tourist, exploring our national parks and local treasures. Well, I decided to take my own advice! Over the new few weeks I’ll pop up a post about tours of Arizona’s icons. First stop, the Petrified National Forest east of Flagstaff. The drive [...]
apartments \ Arizona \ Phoenix downtown
The timing Is perfect to move downtown
The Downtown Phoenix Partnership is calling for more residents to move into the downtown area. There is no question that the downtown area has improved leaps and bounds in the past decade. The City of Phoenix has done a great job of turning the image of our downtown around. Things really began to take shape [...]
Forks up for Arizona Restaurant Week
Ah yes, it’s just about that time! The culinary delight of Arizona foodies is almost upon us. It’s time to make your reservations now. The self-described, “fancy food happy hour”, should not be missed! These are the four weeks a year we have the chance to eat like Kings and Queens at an array of [...]
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Chompie’s Ultimate Slider Challenge will destroy you
If you have a prodigious appetite and a careless disregard for adult-onset type 2 diabetes, then do I have something for you! The Chompie’s Ultimate Slider Challenge dares competitors to down a plate full of their famed Jewish Sliders in under 30 minutes – that’s 12 sliders packed with brisket, potato pancake, and cheese, along [...]
Apartment \ Arizona \ Landlord \ Lease \ Security deposit
Before you sign your first lease, read this
Why does signing your first least seem so terrifying? Maybe it’s the tiny print, the complete overuse of legal mumbo-jumbo, or an awareness to the fact that once you’ve put pen to paper on that lease agreement, there’s no going back? Typically you will be committing yourself to successfully having the ability to pay a [...]
90 minutes from Phoenix to a waterfall adventure
Outdoor-freaks like myself have an extremely hard time finding hiking trails around the Phoenix area that won’t cause heat exhaustion in under 30 minutes and require an expensive and hardly enjoyable helicopter ride to the ER. Even armed with a fully loaded CamelBack and top of the line hiking gear, you can pretty much dismiss [...]
Get your apartment ready for monsoon season
The absolute best part of the entire year is on our horizon. Frankly, it’s the redeeming factor in dealing with our infamously scorching Arizona summers. That’s right, I’m talking about monsoon season. There is something about that sweet smell of the warm rain on the Arizona desert that cannot be described or duplicated anywhere else. [...]
Arizona \ hiking \ Sycamore Canyon
Sycamore Canyon makes a great hiking day trip
My friend Pat got me again. For his birthday, rather than the typical, lazy bar-time celebration, he requested a day trip hike to Sycamore Canyon. As it turns out, our day trip up north was far more fun than the usual birthday shenanigans. I will admit though that by the end of the day, there [...]
Wildfire season is here – What you need to know
Are your eyes burning, throat scratchy and are you having a slightly harder time breathing? Any other time of the year we could likely blame allergies, due to that dang gorgeous weather keeping plants in bloom year round; until summer that is. May seems to mark the inevitable beginning of the dreaded wildfire season. To [...]
Dumb growler laws relaxed just in time for second-half of summer
Buying growlers in Arizona has been a drag for a while. This is due to a huge web of miserable laws that govern who can sell growlers, when, where, and how. Right now, it’s pretty tough: only breweries can sell growlers, and they can only sell their own brands. Makes getting your gallon o’ beer [...]
Get hungry: It’s Arizona Restaurant Week!
The spring observation of Arizona Restaurant Week begins May 19th, and according to my calculations is actually an 8 day celebration, culminating May 27th. Though their definition of a “week” is a little off, it is definitely working in our favor! There are just over 150 restaurants participating in the Phoenix area this year, so [...]
Why renters insurance isn’t a waste of money in Arizona
Paying insurance premiums, whether it’s for health, life or any other type of insurance each and every month often feels like a complete drain on your bank account. It’s frequently hard to see the value of your payments when all you’ve got to show for this monthly payment is a plastic card in your wallet [...]
Stuff yourself at the Arizona BBQ Festival
It simply is not summer without a pool day, a frosty beer and a tasty BBQ cookout with friends and family. Lets kick it off and make it official May 19th and 20th at the Arizona Barbecue Festival! Not only is this a tasty two day BBQ cook-off, it is the largest BBQ event in [...]
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Tips for relocating to Phoenix
Relocating to another state for any reason is always an exciting and scary experience. Building a new network of friends, finding new favorite restaurants, dry cleaners, vet, or anything else you might need are typical obstacles after a big move. Each experience can be different depending upon your new location. Here are a few quick [...]
Arizona \ float \ Salt River
Laze the day away – float the Salt River
Kicking back, keeping cool, sharing laughs with friends and soaking up the sun. Nothing kicks off an official Phoenix summer than tubing down the Salt River. This natural oasis in the middle of the desert is a great escape for those agonizingly hot summer days and is a really very inexpensive day trip surprisingly close [...]
What to do when your landlord is a pain in the rear
Unfortunately living in a rented home can sometimes mean dealing with a less-than-pleasant landlord. Wouldn’t it be great if we could all have a friendly, attentive and understanding landlord to work with throughout the term of your lease? We can’t all be so lucky. Though you may have found the perfect rental property you can’t [...]
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