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$2,699,000

2809 E FRYE RD, Phoenix, AZ 

“Feel one with the earth”

Behold, the cemetery sales pitch! My how the plot thickens! This view truly is to die for as this single level scene stealer is socially distanced up, up, and away from the rest of Ahwatukee. Nothing flattens the curve like a dirt grader. By the looks of this Autobahn driveway they drove that bladed tractor until the tank was drier than a British joke book. Holy freeway onramps Batman, this driveway is a drive! The home’s interior is whiter than Nicole Kidman basted in Crisco laying on a Utah salt flat, which takes the sky high outdoor views up another notch altogether. There is no TV. The wine vault is emptier than the Detroit Lions trophy case. The stagers assumed we’d just binge watch the people down below?

Cool house. Iconic location. If you’ve ever driven Pecos Road you’ve seen this thing hanging up there all lonely like. Now you know it’s lonely on the inside too.

$1,699,000

21048 W CANYON DR, Buckeye, AZ

“unapparelled craftsmanship by some of the industries finest.”

Lets end apostrophe abuse’s! (sigh)

Out on the western edge of our valley sits an isolated community called Verrado which was built in 2005, just in time for the first great Real Estate crash. “Welcome to Verrado, it happens every day”. That’s it…that’s their community slogan. “It happens…every day”.  Verrado was designed to be the valley’s flystrip for collecting Californians. Built along the foothills of our western skyline’s White Tank Mountains, Verrado offers the modern, stylishly cramped, high-density suburbia that incoming trend seekers have been force fed to expect. There are homes in Verrado so close together you pass your neighbors on the way to your own bathroom.

Verrado is a PUD. Planned Unit Development. This kind of community is built with differing layers of home ownership starting with condos, to townhomes, then compacted single family homes, less compacted single family homes, and finally large luxury lot single family homes. Small. Medium. Large. It’s like living at the GAP. At the western edges of Verrado, on the highest hillside lots, the original developers planned for three luxury lot sized communities; Crescent Park,  Hillcrest Park, and Westmont Green. The latter is where this home is located. None of those communities were ever completed. None.

That “I” on the development report card creates some interesting developments of its own. This home, for instance, was supposed to have neighbors to each side. BAM! POW! CRASH!  The owners have enjoyed 14 years of sweeeet silent solitude instead. There are 40 lots in Westmont. Only seven have houses on them. That may look like an epic failure to developers and accountants, but what a peaceful prosperity proposition for the people living there!

“Prepare yourself to be humbled and overly impressed…”, ok, calm down Kanye, you’re still Bang for the Buckeye to the rest of us. We don’t typically advocate spending over a million dollars to live on the outskirts of the outskirts. However, you won’t find a home this young, with these perks, this impeccably put together, for less than twice the cost anywhere else.

$2,300,000

15 Brewery AVE, Bisbee, AZ

“WATCH VIDEO: AMAZING”

There is no video provided. AMAZING!

With historic mining town ties dating all the way back to the 1880’s, Old Bisbee Brewing Company is Bisbee. This building, this brewery, is the Heart of Town. There are several investment opportunities rolled into one here.

1. Naming rights to the premises brewed beer. With established brew names such as “Classic Pilsner”, “Double Hopped IPA”, and “Stout”, one can see the prospects in mining some creativity and up-branding the liquid gold reserves into something….I don’t know, marketable?
2. Separate Restaurant, uber popular Bar, and a roaring Banquet Hall are all included.
3. There are multiple suites upstairs, making this an AirBNB all in one. There are living quarters in the building for an Owner Operator.

We’ve been watching this property’s price sink for over a year now. Originally listed at $3.25 million. The price drop deluge clicked closer to One Million on the odometer today, which got our attention. The pessimist sees the glass half empty. The optimist sees the glass half full. An accountant will be needed to see this glass at balance.

I see the glass has beer in it.

Where do I sign?