One day, or Day One. It’s your decision.
Today’s HOT LIST Link ( click the pretty gold link below to see today’s picks ):
$6,600,000
4202 E LAMAR RD, Paradise Valley, AZ
“The eagle has landed.”
Drop the microphone. Wow. Just…stare…
Sheesh! I need a cigarette after these photos. We have a contender for Best View in the Valley, and God Bless the architect for exploiting the scenery with massive windows flooding the space with awe. Every piece of furniture in this house is a tripping hazard. One could spend all day just wiping nose prints off the glass. Blink and you’ll miss the fact that there are two swimming pools here. You probably won’t notice that the place was last remodeled during the Carter administration. Who cares? Down a cocktail of Dramamine and Prozac if you dare venture outside where the patio cantilevers out over a sheer drop. Houston, we have a problem: That railing comes to an end. One small step for man, one giant fall immediately thereafter.
Built in 1974, this home is 47 years old. 47 years is a wink in time. The United States built its first aircraft carrier in 1922, which included the first ever aircraft catapult, a giant rubber band to launch those new-fangled plane thingys off the deck. 47 years later a man would stand on the moon. THE MOON! 47 years. Neil Armstrong took five photos of the Moon Landing. Today a decent meal gets over 500 photos. We’ve come so far!
$349,900
496 W MOHAVE ST, Wickenburg, AZ
“Purchase & live in the main house and rent out the 3 (1 bedroom 1 bath) units in the rear”
Last month we put together a target study for an investment group seeking AirBNB properties. The usual location candidates littered our “Where the Profit Things Are” spreadsheet; those would be Scottsdale, South Scottsdale, and North Scottsdale. However, there were exceptions, and one of those was Wickenburg. Unexpected. Not exactly a Condé Nast centerfold. Wickenburg is known for annoying roundabouts and an Arby’s, but it’s also the Team Roping Capitol of the World. Take a globe, spin it around, and when you find Wickenburg on it, you have found the Center of the Roping Events World. BOOM! The town has more cowboys coming and going than a Texas brothel. (roping joke about prostitutes who can’t keep their calves together deleted out of good taste)
This property is boot scootin distance from Rancho Rio Arena, just five blocks down the street. As AirBNB’s go, this is a revolver worth holstering. Well heeled traffic near an Uncle Jed bubbler of event activity? Black gold. Texas Tea. This property has three 1/1 rental units without rental term restrictions. Cha-Ching!
That was spurs.
You can rent the fourth unit out as well… or… (Ten gallon cypherin cap ON) put a caretaker/cleaning person in that unit. We read enough Wickenburg AirBNB reviews to fill a Britannica Encyclopedia set, single tooth edition. They say cleanliness is next to Godliness, which is apparently located somewhere other than Wickenburg. The first AirBNB owner to figure out how to clean up after a dust covered cowboy wins the marketplace. Figure $75-$100 per night, per room. Cha-Ching!
That’s money.
$799,900
3935 E VIA DEL RANCHO RD, Gilbert, AZ
“There are mature citrus, plums, peach, grape, pomegranate and blackberries trees”
Mmmm. Who can’t remember the first moment your teeth sank into that sweet delicate flesh, the juice dribbled syrupy rivers across your chin, and you knew climbing that tall Grape Tree was worth the effort! Careful climbing that blackberry tree though, that sucker’s got thorns.
Grapes may not grow on trees, but neither does money, and it takes plenty of the latter to build out a horse property. Here we find a cowboy kit and kaboodle starter kit already assembled; covered stalls, riding arena, shaded paddock, trailer parking, hay storage, tack room, they even have a shaving bin for collecting pillow innards. The human amenities are quite nice to boot. On the east side of the property there’s a shaded horse dunk tank, which you could probably utilize as a cement pond for swimming and floatin on stuff. The best piece of this Ponderosa puzzle is that it sits on an irrigated lot. You get green without spending it.
Green acres is the place to be!
Farm livin is the life for me!
Land spreadin out so far and wide.
Keep North Scottsdale, just give me that orchard wine.
Dun-doo-doo-dun-dun-done
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