On the planet Mercury each day lasts 1,408 hours. Perpetual Monday!
Today’s HOT LIST Link ( click the pretty blue link below to see today’s picks ):
$15,995,000
10804 E CANYON CROSS WAY, Scottsdale, AZ
“Theater room w/ powder bath & candy bar”
WE GET A CANDY BAR!?! Happy Halloween! Is it a Baby Ruth? Snickers? 100 Grand? Hmmm… we invest $16 million and receive 100 Grand? That’s 2021 in a candy-coated nutshell! Welcome to Monday morning. We encourage you to watch the video of this home as it makes you feel like a better person and kicks the week off with a peaceful, encouraging shove into the eye candy pit.
Historically, homes with hidden rooms are automatic Hot List Podium takers, as we have a soft spot for hidden shallows. This Silverleaf Superstar has the largest hidden room (Pic #12) we’ve ever witnessed. To be flair, it’s probably the least hidden room of hidden rooms, as an outdoor bar exposes its entire rear end to the world. Kinda like what spring break does for the rest of us. A sliding soundproof wall separates the game room from the living spaces, for the perfect Bond villain entry.
How often are we given the opportunity to pay $16 million dollars for a view that is dominated by an even larger house? That’s the Barroway Estate across the view, strangling the neighboring ridge, weighing in at 11,452 sq ft. My wee little brain can’t quite conceptualize SIXTEEN MILLION DOLLARS. At that price I expect to find Kyler Murray throwing balls to my kids out back. The wall of purses pictured here made my wallet audibly gasp. But it’s Pic #9…the studio sized pantry…that displays a foreign object I cannot identify, or an identity I can’t objectify, whichever…
Who amongst us displays their soup with the SERVING INSTRUCTIONS facing forward!?! All the soups. Turned the precise same angle. One by one. That’s some Patrick Bergen “Sleeping with the Enemy” inventory management spookiness that leads to light bulb breakage, faked death, and new life in North Carolina.
“For over 100 years our kitchens have crafted honest, soul-satisfying recipes with real ingredients you’re proud to serve.”
But not proud enough to display!…Visit progresso.com for even more coziness.
This has been a Do Not Add Water Reminder.
$645,000
1538 E MONTEBELLO AVE, Phoenix, AZ
“Walk to Youfit Health Club, Phoenix City Grille, Starbucks, TexAZ Grill, The Vig, Richardsons, Rokerij, Dick’s Hideaway, Zipps, & Luci’s Marketplace”
Sounds exhausting! Don’t know that we’ve ever been THAT hungry.
This property comes back to market today after multiple accepted offers failed to produce a successful Buyer. In the mood for a horror story?
7/18 – Property Listed for $625k
7/23 – Offer accepted after just 5 days on market.
7/27 – OH NO! SALE DIES. BACK ON MARKET…oops
7/30 – Offer accepted after just 3 days back on market.
10/23 – LOOK OUT! SALE DIES. BACK ON MARKET…after 85 days in Escrow…yeeouch!
10/25 – TODAY – Price RAISED by $20,000 to $645k. Yes, we said Raised.
A property popping on and off market as quickly as this home has, is a HOT property. This is a terrific price for the area and condition, one suspects they’ll get another offer quickly, even with this higher list price. The Lesson before us today is The Picky Heron.
A giant white heron stands lakeside amidst all the cranes, ibises, and water foul that are flocking around on the shoreline amongst the sunning turtles and crocs. Each bird is gobbling down vast amounts of worms and snails dug from the sand. The heron does not care for snails or worms. Small fish dart past the heron’s lone leg, but it does not eat those either, as the heron proudly waits for bigger fish to arrive. But larger fish never show up, tide recedes, and the heron ends the day hungry and starving for a worm or a snail.
LESSON: We are riding the back wake of a monumental tidal wave of spring buyers, a wave that crested in March. The tide still comes in. The tide goes out. But the gigantic Steve McGarrett wave of incoming Buyers is not the aweing Once-every-50-years Bells Beach monster storm wall of action it once was. Many Sellers are still standing on the beach like Bhodi at the end of Point Break, waiting for that monster wave to rise again…[set alarm for fifty years]. Don’t wait for yesterday to arrive. Act for today.
The dates of activity above suggest these Sellers accepted an offer in July from a Buyer with a ‘contingent sale’. There’s no other explanation we can think of for 85 days to pass in escrow without a closing. This market is cooling ever so slowly, but it’s still Hot to the touch. There is no reason to be accepting Contingent Offers….unless it was the Big Fish higher offer you were waiting for, oh little Heron with the now gurgling gut.
The BEST offer isn’t always the Highest Offer.
$9,975,000
20981 N 104TH WAY, Scottsdale, AZ
“this iconic Upper Canyon home exemplifies classic Arizona living”
Hold up. Classic Arizona Living is losing one’s fingerprints to the summer steering wheel Gods. Classic Arizona Living is making sweat angels on the couch cushions because APS chose August as the best month to shut your power off for maintenance giggles. Classic Arizona Living is armoring up your lower legs with long socks and hard shoes so the scorpions don’t make your nightly garbage can run a Life Alert buzz in. Classic Arizona Living is finding a hand sized spider under the fridge, or rabbits strategically sabotaging your drip system, or learning that stucco on the south side of the building has less defensive qualities than the Houston Texans. Classic Arizona Living is a lot of things to a lot of people.
It’s surely NOT ‘exemplified’ by an Embassy sized Monster Mansion mounted mountainside, overlooking all of our little people struggles occurring, classic style, down below.
Pic #27. The booze rations are nearly exhausted! Options declining! Notify Bevmo! Suck the corks! My God, we may have to start drinking the booze with dead insects in it. If the bottle levels recede any lower we’ll be taking less shots than [Alec Baldwin punchline removed for reasons of taste and class].
Ok, maybe everyone has their own version of classic Arizona struggles….err…living.
This house has an indoor golf range!?!
Classic Arizona Living!
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