Dane Briggs's (dbriggs) Blog

A little-known IRS provision lets you extend your real estate purchasing with tax-deferred dollars. Are stock market woes preventing you from building wealth in your retirement account? If so, you might be interested in a small, but growing, trend among individual retirement account owners—invest...

The market is in turmoil, people have watched their 401ks turn into 201ks and they are on the way to being 101ks.  People are afraid of where capital gains taxes will be in the near future, and how they can continue to prosper.  The market is shaky at best and I am having the best year of my life...

IMPORTANT GAS UPDATE! Recently, a complaint filed with ADEQ resulted in an inspection by the Fire Marshall and some bad news for Crown King. We may soon be facing a no-gas situation in town. In order to comply with current Arizona Department of Environmental Quality regulations, the General Store...

EVENT REMINDER! MEMORIAL DAY PARADE ON SUNDAY! Our apologies for the late reminder on the upcoming Memorial Day Parade - but if you can come, it is always an entertaining event. While it is the "WORLD'S SHORTEST" Memorial Day Parade, it can take quite a while for all of the floats (or quads or tr...

I love Arizona in the summer...  we don't have daylight savings time, so I can't speak for the rest of you around the country.  But as the weather warms up the days get longer.  Today the sun rose at 6:15am...  there is something fantastic about the start of a new day.  My first question that goe...

Well everyone, tomorrow is my ACTIVE RAIN 1 Week Anniversary! In just six short days I have managed to accumulate 4500 points! I have found that writing blogs every few days has become something I look forward to and actually think about during the day.  At first it was tough and tedious to think...

Phoenix Real Estate Market In the Metropolitan Phoenix real estate market, our long, slow slide in home prices is finally encountering demand If you've been looking for the bottom of the Phoenix real estate market, it might well be upon us. The world beyond our control -- Washington and Wall Str...

This is definitely a rantof a post!  So we are working with some cash buyers right now interested in Million Dollar Plus Condos.  I just got off the phone with a listing agent who didn't think it was worth her time to show her property unless it was the only one our clients were interested in.  T...

We have thought about spending advertising money on Google Ad-words for quite some time now.  Well being the research monkey I am, I have studied this for sometime.  I think that at this time, spending money with google adwords may be a waste of time and more importantly money.  It seems to me th...

This will be a small post to start with.  I just wanted to express my excitement to become part of the ActiveRain community.  Networking is the key to survive in this business and I am excited at the potential this website brings to the table. I look forward to soaking up all the information I ca...