A single fact can ruin fifty arguments.
Today’s HOT LIST Link ( click the pretty gold link below to see today’s picks ):
$3,925,000
6819 E HUMMINGBIRD LN, Paradise Valley, AZ
“this home will capture your heart; as will, the brand new concrete tile roof”
“Did it hurt when you fell from Heaven?”
“I lost my phone number, can I have yours?”
“Nice dress, can I talk you out of it?”
Scoot over bad pick-up lines, a new fighter has entered the ring! Can you imagine entering this impressive home as your Realtor (that’s me) utters these words, “this home will capture your heart; as will, the brand new concrete tile roof!”. Slap me. Just slap me HARD if this ever happens. Remove a tooth with it. Permission granted. The location of this 6,000 sq ft abode is ideal, as it’s a block walk from Roka Akor and Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse. Not that anyone who can afford this home would make that walk, but the lunch servant should be back in twenty minutes.
As valley housing prices breach the outer atmosphere, on their ongoing mission to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life, and new civilizations, to boldly go where no prices have gone before, I’m starting to feel like Don Quixote at a windmill raising festival. I see the words “Hummingbird Court” and reflexively think “Two million dollars”, because that’s the price point this area has been anchored to for the last decade. That price tag is tattooed on my cerebral cortex! This new normal is abnormal. As the e-mail Sherpa guiding you on daily tours up home value mountain, I have to admit that once we climb above the One Million Dollar elevation, my grip loosens. There is no gravity up here anymore and the air is thinner than Posh Spice after a 3 month fast.
This is a beautiful house, in a beautiful hood, water dissolving, water removing, there is water at the bottom of the ocean.
Letting the days go by, water flowing underground
Into the blue again after the money’s gone
Once in a lifetime…FOUR MILLION!?!
2021 is a trip!
$152,000
22 E Mingus Mountain Summer Home –, Jerome, AZ
“clean outhouse. Tongue and groove vaulted ceilings”
Pace your sentences people. We don’t want the clean outhouse running into the tongue and groove. This home will capture your heart, as will, the composting outhouse! This is the proverbial Cabin in the Woods, lost somewhere between Jerome and Prescott Valley off that long and winding road that runs between. I’ve seen that road before. Arizona is a world of natural beauty, and one of the most jaw dropping drives occurs heading westward out of Jerome after a snow. White pine tops piercing a low mist as it twists through outcroppings of wet rust and chocolate stone. Calendar scenery. If only we could frame a windshield.
That road has more pulse accelerating curves than Salma Hayek exiting a hammock. Around one of those bends is a sliver wide dirt stripe that leads over the river and through the woods to this Hidden Hideaway atop Mingus Mountain. Less than two hours from downtown Phoenix. The dirt road leading you up here appears to be minivan friendly (thanks Google maps). With a ladder loft and 2 bedrooms this tiny home sleeps six, or eight, depending on how you stack guests. She comes furnished, so you won’t be navigating a U-Haul up the dirt road on its millionth mile. Once unpacked, you are strolling distance to Mingus Lake, and only 1000 ft from the Mingus Mountain observation point, which is the peak. This location is magical. That’s why it’s list worthy.
Sure, you can purchase a second home in Payson, or Show Low, and enjoy a change of culture and climate. But if you REALLY want to get away from it all, man this is it. This is special.
$3,275,000
5910 E STELLA LN, Paradise Valley, AZ
“Listen to nearby soothing Casa bells.”
Honey, is that a house alarm!?!
R-E-L-A-X
Cantera Stone molding, iron range hood, and a copper bath tub straight out of a spaghetti western. The interior details inside this house are a feast of creativity. Bravo! Look. Appreciate. Ok. Done. Let’s skip to the outside!
Introducing the Social Distancing swing set. Sometimes the simplest ideas are the most profound. Three couples, six glasses of wine, add swings. MAYHEM! What an imaginative way to maintain appropriate disease distance while burning calories under the glow of a Camelback Mountain sunset. “We must build one of these”, said the small voice inside his head. “Who’s “we”, said the other.
Now let’s talk about this soccer star launching pad. The typical soccer pitch is 90 meters wide, because Euros speak in metric. This field is the width of the goal posts, a measurement which is precisely 8 yards, because you must score a goal to win, and winners use Standard dimensions to measure goal posts. ( I was THIS many days old when I learned soccer goals are measured in standard, and soccer fields are measured in metric.) How did that happen?
So young Renaldo will learn Jedi level ball control dribbling back and forth along this backyard bowling lane. Back and forth, back and forth, up, down, with the sun sliding off the sky as Camelback Mountain drifts into shadow and lights emerge to carpet the distance to infinity and beyond. Some kid will live that life in this backyard. That thought is absolutely beautiful. Life is awesome.
But man will that kid suck at corner kicks! The geometry is all wrong.
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