As fall approaches, the Recreation Association of Sun City has announced the entertainment offered free for Sun City members through November at the Sun Bowl.

For those who don’t know, the Sun Bowl isn’t a football game, or a football stadium, it is an outdoor amphitheater at 10220 N. 107th AV in Sun City.

The scheduled shows are:

1. The Swing Sisters: Sunday, September 24 at 7PM. This is an Andrews Sisters inspired act that performs songs of the 1940’s in 3 part harmony.
2. Masanga Marimba Ensemble: Sunday, September 30 at 7PM. This Southern California group plays African style music based upon Zimbabwean instruments. This should be a good act for folk and international music fans.
3. Monte Procopio: Sunday, October 7 at 6:30 PM. Monte sings the songs of the Rat Pack, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Sammy Davis Jr. and Wayne Newton.
4. The Chordettes: Sunday October 14 at 6:30 PM. A 1950’s, 1960’s group. Hit songs include Mr. Sandman, Lollipop, Never on Sundays.
5. Arizona Winds: Sundaym October 21 at 6PM. A concert band made up of musicians from across the Valley. Traditional band, pop, jazz etc.
6. Spirit of Phoenix Quartets: Sunday, October 28, 6PM. Barbershop harmonies.
7. Arizona Swing Kids Sunday, November 4, 6PM. Known as the USO Kids, children from 7 to 17 do a USO type show.
8. Ahwatukee Foothils Concert Band Sunday, November 11 5:30PM. A salute to all Veterans. Patriotic music, marches, Broadway, jazz, swing.
9. Choralaires of Phoenix Sunday, November 18, 5:30 PM. Male singers with a repertoire of patriotic, spiritual, pop and more.

Jim Little, Your Sun City Realtor
http://jclittle.com/
Ken Meade Realty
17001 N Del Webb Blvd
Sun City AZ 85373
800-877-1776
623-977-1776

By the way…if you know someone who is interested in buying or selling real estate in the Sun City Neighborhood, Peoria, Glendale or Surprise, please call me with their name and phone number. Thank you!

>About The Author

As a full time agent with Ken Meade Realty a Sun City neighborhood Brokerage business, Jim utilizes his Marketing Degree and 35 years of Business and Real Estate experience in order to help clients with their primary residence and second home needs. He contributes to a daily Web Blog which focuses on the Sun City, Sun City West, Glendale, Peoria and Surprise Arizona Real Estate Market, as well as other topics important to those and neighboring communities. For more information on Jim and Ken Meade Realty, please visit his website at http://www.suncityneighborhood.com/ or his other blog at:http://activerain.com/blogs/jlittle

To know the answer to that question, it is important to ask yourself the following questions first:

1. Do you plan on living in the home for 3 to 5 years?
2. Do you have a stable job or retirement income?
3. Are rents and rental occupancy rates increasing in the area you wish to live?

If you answered yes to these three questions, now is the time to buy a home.

If you want a great buy, and could care less about keeping up with the Jones. buy the house that will provide a HOME for you and your family.

The tactic many buyers seem to be taking now, that of attempting to time the market, is self-defeating. Attempting to "time" the market and buy at the bottom, is as difficult as trying to "time" the top and sell at the top. If you don’t believe me, ask the many thousands of real estate "investors" who have filed for bankruptcy recently.

When considering buying a home for you and your family, a few very important things must be considered.

1. Pick a home with a good LOCATION! Homes with good locations sell when nothing else will.
2. Pick a home with good fundamentals. Don’t buy one with an odd floor plan, a lot too big or too small for your needs, too few or too many bedrooms or baths, etc.
3. Get a loan approval FIRST! Interest rates are still near historical lows, and if you are buying a normal family home, fixed rate conforming loans are still availabe, but the seller will need to know you are prepared to buy the home before taking the home off the market. Your real estate agent should be able to help you with this.

Jim Little, Your Sun City Realtor
http://jclittle.com/
Ken Meade Realty
17001 N Del Webb Blvd
Sun City AZ 85373
800-877-1776
623-977-1776

By the way…if you know someone who is interested in buying or selling real estate in the Sun City Neighborhood, Peoria, Glendale or Surprise, please call me with their name and phone number. Thank you!

>About The Author

As a full time agent with Ken Meade Realty a Sun City neighborhood Brokerage business, Jim utilizes his Marketing Degree and 35 years of Business and Real Estate experience in order to help clients with their primary residence and second home needs. He contributes to a daily Web Blog which focuses on the Sun City, Sun City West, Glendale, Peoria and Surprise Arizona Real Estate Market, as well as other topics important to those and neighboring communities. For more information on Jim and Ken Meade Realty, please visit his website at http://www.suncityneighborhood.com/ or his other blog at:http://activerain.com/blogs/jlittle

Jim Little, Your Sun City Realtor

Lenn Harley, a broker in Maryland at Homefinders.com wrote about this in her blog. I feel it is important enough to quote a few of the secrets here.

Secret: The agent’s whose name is on the FOR SALE sign in the yard has promised the seller that he/she will get the best price for the seller.  The only information required of a seller’s representative would be "material defects".  General condition of a property should be obtained the a home inspection with a contingency to void the contract if the house has serious maintenance, structural problems

Secret:Earnest money deposits may be forfeited if a buyer falsely represents his/her financial ability to obtain financing.  Buyers who do not cooperate with the financing paragraphs and cause the seller to keep the home off market have caused the seller serious damages and may not get their earnest refunded.

Secret:  Termite Warranties do not protect your home from termite damage.  Termites cannot read.

To see the other 27 secrets, please go to Lenn Harley’s blog by clicking here.

Jim Little, Your Sun City Realtor
http://jclittle.com/
Ken Meade Realty
17001 N Del Webb Blvd
Sun City AZ 85373
800-877-1776
623-977-1776

By the way…if you know someone who is interested in buying or selling real estate in the Sun City Neighborhood, Peoria, Glendale or Surprise, please call me with their name and phone number. Thank you!

>About The Author

As a full time agent with Ken Meade Realty a Sun City neighborhood Brokerage business, Jim utilizes his Marketing Degree and 35 years of Business and Real Estate experience in order to help clients with their primary residence and second home needs. He contributes to a daily Web Blog which focuses on the Sun City, Sun City West, Glendale, Peoria and Surprise Arizona Real Estate Market, as well as other topics important to those and neighboring communities. For more information on Jim and Ken Meade Realty, please visit his website at http://www.suncityneighborhood.com/ or his other blog at:http://activerain.com/blogs/jlittle

Jim Little, Your Sun City Realtor

Homes for sale in Sun City Grand, Westbrook Village

If you like many others believe you have to be 55 years old to live in an active adult community, have I got news for you.

Both Sun City Grand, and Westbrook Village have lower age restrictions. You may buy a home and live in it at age 45 in Sun City Grand. Homes for sale in Sun City Grand range from $129,000 to $889,000.

Westbrook Village has an even lower age limit. You can buy a home and live in it in Westbrook Village at age 40. Homes for sale in Westbrook Village range from $149,000 to $539,000.

How can these communities do this? The federal rule is that 80% of the homes have at least 1 occupant over 55 years old, and no occupant under 19 years old for longer than 90 days. If the bylaws of the community allow it, and the community governing body will keep the records, households can be allowed occupancy of younger people up to 20% of the total. The key is keeping records, which Sun City Grand and Westbrook do.

Think about it, you can enjoy the benefits of active adult community living while you are still young enough to enjoy it.

Jim Little, Your Sun City Realtor
http://jclittle.com/
Ken Meade Realty
17001 N Del Webb Blvd
Sun City AZ 85373
800-877-1776
623-977-1776

By the way…if you know someone who is interested in buying or selling real estate in the Sun City Neighborhood, Peoria, Glendale or Surprise, please call me with their name and phone number. Thank you!

>About The Author

As a full time agent with Ken Meade Realty a Sun City neighborhood Brokerage business, Jim utilizes his Marketing Degree and 35 years of Business and Real Estate experience in order to help clients with their primary residence and second home needs. He contributes to a daily Web Blog which focuses on the Sun City, Sun City West, Glendale, Peoria and Surprise Arizona Real Estate Market, as well as other topics important to those and neighboring communities. For more information on Jim and Ken Meade Realty, please visit his website at http://www.suncityneighborhood.com/ or his other blog at:http://activerain.com/blogs/jlittle

Jim Little, Your Sun City Realtor

Home Sales up in Sun City and Surprise Arizona

The West Valley’s Daily News-Sun newspaper, citing a study by Realty Studies at Arizona State University Polytechnic reported today, July 13, 2007, that Sun City and Surprise resales of homes were strong when compared to the same month last year.

Sun City Arizona home resales were 115 homes in June 2007 compared to only 75 resales in 2006.
Surprpise Arizona home resales were  255 homes in June 2007 compared to only 175 resales in 2006.

I said in my post on July 11, 2007 that I felt the consumer was regaining confidence and felt the market had bottomed out. This latest news confirms that, at least for these two communities, the backbone of the the northwest valley. See my earlier post here. http://activerain.com/blogsview/144540/Low-Prices-Higher-Interest .

Since all wise investors want to buy low, now is the time!

Jim Little, Your Sun City Realtor
http://jclittle.com/
Ken Meade Realty
17001 N Del Webb Blvd
Sun City AZ 85373
800-877-1776
623-977-1776

By the way…if you know someone who is interested in buying or selling real estate, please call me with their name and phone number. Thank you!

How much? That is the question. How much can you get for your housing dollar in Sun City?

As June 2007 approaches a close, there are 36 homes for sale in Sun City AZ. They range in price from $99,000 for a 2 bedroom 1 bath home of 918 square foot home to $150,000 for a 3 bedroom 2 bath home of 1706 square feet.

Is a condominium in your future? Today, June 24, 2007, there are 176 condos for sale in Sun City AZ. You can get a 625 square foot studio, perfect for the occasional winter visitor for only $69,500. You can go all the way up to a 3 bedroom 2 bath condo of 1735 square feet for $150,000 even.

Your housing dollar buys a great deal in Sun City. For homes in a major metropolitan area, housing prices in Sun City and the greater Phoenix area are a bargain at this time.

For more information on homes and condos for sale in Sun City, Sun City West, Surprise or Peoria Arizona or the greater Phoenix and west Maricopa county areas, please visit either of my web sites http://jclittle.com or http://suncityneighborhood.com. You may search the MLS free and with no registration required.

Jim Little, Your Sun City Realtor
http://jclittle.com/
Ken Meade Realty
17001 N Del Webb Blvd
Sun City AZ 85373
800-877-1776
623-977-1776

By the way…if you know someone who is interested in buying or selling real estate, please call me with their name and phone number. Thank you!
See my other blog at: http://activerain.com/blogs/jlittle

How do we survive the heat?
It really isn’t that hard. Dress in light weight, light colored and loose clothing. (See the suit and tie in my picture? I’m not wearing it today.) Drink lots of ice water, try to stay out of the sun, start your day earlier. Wear a hat, especially if you wear your hair in the wide center part style my genes blessed me with. Use sun screen when you must be in the sun. If worse comes to worse, go to one of the cool places in Arizona I wrote about here.

Do People Golf in the Heat?
You betcha Red Ryder! A few years ago, 3pm on a hot day in August, I was taking a listing. The client was an 83 year old woman who kept saying "hurry Up". I asked her do you have a tee time? She said yes, at 3:30. Keep in mind the hottest time of the day is 5PM. I made the comment that she was a great deal tougher than I am, she replied, "we don’t shoot for the pin, we shoot shade to shade" That’s dedication to your sport.

Hope you all have a pleasant and safe summer.

Jim Little, Your Sun City Realtor
http://jclittle.com/
Ken Meade Realty
17001 N Del Webb Blvd
Sun City AZ 85373
800-877-1776
623-977-1776

By the way…if you know someone who is interested in buying or selling real estate, please call me with their name and phone number. Thank you!
See my other blog at: http://activerain.com/blogs/jlittle