Falling in Love- Online: Beware!

It's true, just like a bad match from E-Harmony,  a property posted online that looks "too good to be true," may be just that.

As a real estate agent when I list a home, I like to hire a professional photographer.  Why?  I know that most home buyers start their searches online.  Pictures are a great way to visualize what a home has to offer.  A professional photographer uses their skills and knowledge to highlight the homes the best way possible.  They take pictures at the right time of day for the best lighting, they use wide angle lenses making rooms appear larger, they Photoshop or other editing software.  The results are amazing and often a home can look even better than it does in person.  So while it is fine to start your search online, make sure that you actually have an agent preview the home with you before "moving in" mentally.

Looking online provides aspects of the home that the listing agent or homeowner want you to know about.  It does not give you a sense of how the home flows from room to room, or how it might fit your lifestyle.

In short, once you have identified a home that you think may have potential, it is best to give us a call and take a quick tour.  It may reveal that the home really is your dream home, or that it was just smoke and mirrors!

Thanks Great Colorado Homes for the wonderful info-graphic.

We DOUBLE DOG DARE YOU- Join our Prescott Fun Challenge

There are so many amazing things to see and do in the little town on Prescott and summer is the perfect time to get out with friends and loved ones and experience what our town has to offer.  With the recent completion of the Prescott Circle Trail, Amy and I would like to challenge all of you to get out of the house and hike, run, or bike a section or the whole ginormous trail!  It is 68 miles from start to finish!
The section we are highlighting today is from the Peavine Trailhead at the intersection of Sundog Ranch Rd over to the Turley Trail Head.  It offers lots of fun climbs, breathtaking views, for you bikers, wicked fast descents(be careful for other trail users).  From Sundog to Turley, it 8.3 miles and a little over 1200 feet of climbing and it took me about an hour to ride with another 10 minutes back to the trail head via Yavpe Connector.  I've done the trail as an out and back, and it took me about 2 hrs.
Hope you enjoy this trail as much as I did!!

The line in the map indicates the Turley Trail Head.  Also, the elevation gradients are 5000 - 6200 feet
at 200' each.

Not into biking- try hiking a section.  A group of our friends recently hiked the entire trail and backpacked along the way!  Way to go Carlisi's!!
Take a quick Selfie- or Groupie and post it to our FB page or Instagram with the #PrescottFun

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Top 3 Reasons for you to love Productive Landscape

Productive landscape- just what the heck is it?  According to Team Maneely, with Homesmart Fine Homes and Land, productive landscaping is anything added to your landscape that produces a benefit for the homeowner.  It can be as simple as a fast growing shade tree creating a little relief from the intense mountain sun, or as involved as a floral arrangement used to attract hummingbirds.

For Team Maneely, we prefer to have a landscape that helps produce food for our family.  Our backyard contains six different fruit trees.  We have two peach, two cherry, an apple and a pear.   And this year our cherry crop is amazing, and it looks like the apple and peaches are well on their way too.  The poor pear just never seems to grow beyond microscopic size.  Along with our fruit trees we have an herb garden complete with rosemary, thyme, and mint, a large section of arugula, and a thorn free blackberry shrub .  We have been busy preserving our cherry harvest by canning. 

TOP THREE REASONS TO LOVE PRODUCTIVE LANDSCAPE

3.)  Give your property an edge and added value by having your landscape serve a unique purpose.  Love butterflies?  Make sure to incorporate the flowers they seek.  Enjoy bird watching? Include a feeder or bath to attract them.  Fancy yourself an Italian foodie?  Plant some tomatoes and make a sauce to knock the socks off your guests.  If you enjoy it, it is likely that others will too!

2.) Productive landscape creates a unique space.  I remember watching Dennis the Menace as a child and his affable elder neighbor Wilson spent a great amount of time with his prize garden.  At some point he even had created an award winning space as deemed by the garden society.  If you have a productive landscape chances are you have created a unique space that can be used as a selling feature for your real estate agent to highlight in marketing your property to others.   

1.)  Landscape that is productive serves a greater purpose.  We a little thought and ingenuity, you can have space that is even "brown thumb" friendly and easy to maintain but still serves a greater purpose.  For instance, here in Prescott Arizona, we conserve water.  Maybe your productive landscape are plants that are drought tolerant.  Perhaps you have added a water cistern to help collect rainwater for landscaping.  Both the rainwater collection and drought tolerant plants are productive landscape and will serve a greater purpose for potential buyers.