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Candice A. Donofrio
Mohave County, AZ Commercial & Investment Real Estate Representing CRE Buyers, Sellers, Landlords, & Tenants Using the Analysis Model and Tools of the World’s Top Commercial Real Estate Professionals.
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Elise Harron
I LOVE rural properties, I am Northern Arizona's Rural Property Specialist. Survivalists, Retirees, Homesteaders, Ranchers and Family & Executive Rural retreats... call me - I speak your language.
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Mohave County, AZ Real Estate News

By Leanne Smith, The Grit and Gratitude Agent
(Dirt Road Real Estate)
Living here in NW Arizona and coming from the Midwest, we were accustomed to deer, opossums, ground hogs, skunks, raccoons, beavers just to mention a few of the many critters that lived in the woods behind our home.  Deer were probably the most present and the animals to be most cautious about.  One time driving in the city limits of Valparaiso, IN, a deer jumped across the hood of my vehicle.  Deer do come out of nowhere and are very quick. Also, visiting the family farm in NW WI, I was aware of deer.  Thankfully in all my years of driving, I never hit a deer.Now in Mohave County we have coyotes, jack rabbits, desert tortoises, wild burros and cattle. Yes we also have snakes but that is a subject for another day.Yesterday, driving one of the few paved roads in Golden Valley, AZ I happe...
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By Leanne Smith, The Grit and Gratitude Agent
(Dirt Road Real Estate)
This week has been busy in traveling to various vacant land parcels here in Golden Valley, AZ.  I am a firm believer if a seller wants me to list his or her rural real estate vacant land property, I must visit the property, take photos, determine the best road access along with the availability of utilities such as electricity and water.This belief reinforces the REALTOR®’s Code of Ethics that being to “protect and promote.”  Here not only in Golden Valley, but in Mohave County many roads show “right of ways” by the county, but have never been “cut in.” Roads that have been “cut in” often are single lane cow trails where Mother Nature graciously gives your vehicle pin-stripping. This is why many of my listings make this statement in capitol letters:DO NOT FOLLOW GPS!How can I promote my...
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By Leanne Smith, The Grit and Gratitude Agent
(Dirt Road Real Estate)
After reading Nina Hollander, Broker  blog posting, Organize Your Home Day: More Than Cleaning – It’s a Lifestyle Upgrade today, January 14, 2026  I decided to take care of some new Pyrex storage glassware we received yesterday. Coming from the 1950’s when Pyrex and Corning Ware were among the uniform glass storage ware, I decided to “pitch” our plastic containers. For us this was a "life style upgrade."Also, I have read about some of the negative aspects of plastic and food storage.  Actually, I am donating the plastic containers to Goodwill as the containers are in good to excellent condition.As I removed the plastic containers, I realized I had not used probably 50% of them. We have metal bowls and much larger pottery bowls if necessary. I did keep some smaller ones that we use for f...
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By Leanne Smith, The Grit and Gratitude Agent
(Dirt Road Real Estate)
Often people buy off grid vacant land here in Golden Valley, AZ because they want some elbow room for privacy or as my husband said “I don’t want to see my neighbors.” This nearly 2.5 acre parcel has natural privacy due to all the high desert vegetation. The seller invested in cutting in a driveway and creating a level building pad for a Recreational Vehicle, a new home site either site built or manufactured home or even a workshop. And better yet, the property is livestock and horse friendly. Imagine owing these 2.49 acres of Off Grid Property with 360 mountain views,  cut in driveway and pad for just $8,900. Being much closer to Highway 93, the future corridor for I-11, Las Vegas is about 90 minutes away and Lake Mead for those fishermen and women even closer. Kingman amenities are be...
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By Leanne Smith, The Grit and Gratitude Agent
(Dirt Road Real Estate)
Today the Nation Celebrates Martin Luther King Day.  Many articles will be published about Dr. King and his accomplishments. Yet, as I read this quote I remembered this verse from the King James Bible, Genesis 1:3:And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.In today's hectic world where there appears to be darkness not in the sense of the sun's light, but darkness in the minds and hearts of so many folks. Anymore some see the darkness as light and the light as darkness.I remember an interview Bill O'Reilly did with a Nun. O'Reilly asked the Nun to define God.  Her response was three words. "God is love."Here are quotes from others who believe in the power of light, of love.Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindess in giving create...
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By Leanne Smith, The Grit and Gratitude Agent
(Dirt Road Real Estate)
Listing rural land from vacant parcels (also what I call dirt) to ranches does demand boots on the ground.  Without physically walking the property, understanding the topography, knowing the road access, leaves the seller at a competitive disadvantage (promotion of his, her or their real estate property) and a buyer in potential harms way.Some real estate agents market their services to rural land areas, but often fail to engage in boots on the ground.  I have had agents who say they understand dirt, but don’t read the MLS directions and are intimidated by the dirt roads that are often more like cow trails with ruts to sandy washes. One day this past week I toured two parcels owned by the same seller. The parcels were located about 11+ miles from each other. I determined the best access...
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By Leanne Smith, The Grit and Gratitude Agent
(Dirt Road Real Estate)
So you check your sold stats, your bank account, your inbound sales leads, the number of your listings leads and through this reflection your real estate practice is successful. However for me, being a little older and having a different purpose, success for me is realized when a client writes a personal note expressing her happiness and gratitude about a closed real estate transaction.Leanne, I wish you the best Christmas ever. I so appreciate your kindness an efficiency in helping me sell my property this past year. You are so appreciated for all you did and I will forever remember your kindness. May your Christmas be filled with joy and laughter.When I opened this Christmas card and read the personal note, a large smile and a tug of my heart happened. I felt I had once again realized...
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By Leanne Smith, The Grit and Gratitude Agent
(Dirt Road Real Estate)
How often do we read about real estate coaches to real estate schools discussing Value Propositions?  Then we read the dire warnings if we don’t have one. Of course, these individuals and schools will be more than happy to help you construct one with a fee.To have clarity, a Value Proposition defines the kind of value a company will create for its customers. (Source; Institute for Strategy an Competitiveness)First, if we believe value is an emotion, then having emotion infused into this statement does seem to make sense.  Yet in reading numerous value propositions, emotion is not present or rarely present.Second, if we believe in the wisdom of Zig Ziglar that “sales is the transference of feelings,” then his words also suggest emotions are present directly or indirectly in our interacti...
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By Leanne Smith, The Grit and Gratitude Agent
(Dirt Road Real Estate)
Possibly, some of us we may remember the TV series “Mission Impossible.” Peter Graves (the brother to James Arness). Graves played Mr. Phelps, a leader of a covert team, MI. Phelps would received instructions via a tape recorder with a specific mission and the desired result. Of course, Phelps always had the choice not to accept the mission as well as the tape would self-destruct in 5 seconds.The definition of mission is “a specific task with which a person or a group is charged.” (Source: Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary)From my experience in working with small to even larger businesses, the published Mission Statement is often the Vision as there is no specificity in what is called the HOW.  I have asked CEO’s to managers to read the Mission Statement and consider this question:If yo...
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By Leanne Smith, The Grit and Gratitude Agent
(Dirt Road Real Estate)
Some may remember the original Alice in Wonderland movie when Alice comes across a tree in the woods and wonders what path she should take. Here she meets the Cheshire Cat who she then asks which way should she go.  The Cat responds it really doesn’t matter as Alice doesn’t know where she is going.For some real estate agents, they are much like Alice. They don’t know where they are truly going. For business owners, from the micro to the macro knowing the WHERE is the Vision, the vanishing point on the horizon. This vanishing point is different for each individual and may potentially conflict with the brokerage’s vision as well.Fortunately, when I signed on with Dirt Road Real Estate, I understood the Vision of the founders.  Since that time, I have fine tuned my Vision Statement and ens...
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By Leanne Smith, The Grit and Gratitude Agent
(Dirt Road Real Estate)
Outside of your WHY in Real Estate Is, Your WHAT for me is the most important question to be answered.  I believe if more real estate agents would commit their “WHAT” to writing, the general public would have higher confidence in working with real estate agents.Now you may be asking yourself, what is the WHAT in real estate. Simply speaking, your WHAT is your Values, your moral code, your ethics, call it what you will.  Your behaviors are a direct results of your values.For professional real estate agents who are also REALTORS®, there exists a Code of Ethics. In the first article, three words appear for me that sum up how I behave with clients. Those three words are "protect and promote." However, my interactions go beyond clients to customers to vendors to community individuals to frie...
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By Leanne Smith, The Grit and Gratitude Agent
(Dirt Road Real Estate)
Each of us have a why, a purpose in life, both personally and professionally though often that why is the same for both of our lives.  Over time that purpose may change.  Some of the words will be edited, some removed and some will stay the same but with potentially a different context.Each year I revisit my why and this year made two changes. The first change was recognizing the need to “slow down” as I want to invest more time with my husband, my personal hobbies and my own physical health.  Being ill for 3 months and still sometimes suffering the residual effects has indeed change my perspective. Thankfully this illness was not serious or life threatening, but indeed gave me pause for concern and reflection.So here is my purpose and I encourage others to consider committing the purpo...
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By Leanne Smith, The Grit and Gratitude Agent
(Dirt Road Real Estate)
Sometimes one has the opportunity to learn a lot in social media from a verified source. This past weekend I read about changes in AZ specific to septic permitting process, installation and inspection per Mark Johnson an Environmental Consultant/Engineer.These  reason for these changes enacted by the AZ Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) are to create consistency and uniformity within 15 AZ counties. Additionally two other points to be aware of:A new Delegation Agreement between ADEQ  and the Counties was released in January of 2025 with a big change is the County cannot ask for information that is not in the AZ Administrative Code.   Some of these changes will be happening in the first quarter of 2026.Per the US Federal Courts decided that Local and County Governments' Requirem...
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By Leanne Smith, The Grit and Gratitude Agent
(Dirt Road Real Estate)
Reading about the real estate industry to the real estate market to the public’s opinions of real estate agents, there is a lot of doom and gloom. Yet, those individuals who embrace being professional real estate agents are the champions of this market. Many of those agents are here on Active Rain. What does being a real estate champion look like?Champion real estate agents are: Knowledgeable and are always seeking to increase their knowledge base, to be the best informed and to share that knowledge Aware first about their own attitudes, talents and then to the market, to other agents, to local and national news and how such news may impact their clients, customers and their own attitudes respective to their real estate practice Responsive from texts, emails, phone calls because these i...
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By Leanne Smith, The Grit and Gratitude Agent
(Dirt Road Real Estate)
With the New Year now in its third day, some real estate agents may be reviewing their 2025 wins, losses and missed opportunities .  Much of this focus may be on real estate marketing. Any given day agents get texts about sales leads, firms that will post social media content to possibly even reading some marketing guru book or blog posting.Yet, when asked this question “What is the goal of marketing?”, some may stubble responding or answer with attracting attention, making a friend, etc.  However, if we accept the premise people buy from people they know and trust, should not the goal of marketing be to build trust?The origin of the word is believed to be Scandinavian. (Source: Webster’s Seventh New College Dictionary). Here the first definition is “assured reliance on the character, a...
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By Leanne Smith, The Grit and Gratitude Agent
(Dirt Road Real Estate)
Wow! In 2 days January 1, 2026 becomes reality. Our current year 2025 is still filled with our daily change struggles. These changes can be insignificant such as what do I wear to a New Year's Eve gathering to very significant such as what are my professional and personal goals for 2026?Our seconds change into minutes; the minutes click into hours;  hours turn into days; days become months and another year passes us by.Marcus Aurelius wrote:"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”Possibly Aurelius read the works of Heraclitus who said:“There is nothing permanent except change.”How we deal with our daily change struggle is with our thoughts.  We can ignore it, not a good thing. Then we can fight it, again probably not the best way to deal with change.  Maybe the b...
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By Leanne Smith, The Grit and Gratitude Agent
(Dirt Road Real Estate)
As the December challenge co-hosted by Lew Corcoran  and Patricia Feager  is coming to end, here is my fourth and final entry about my Ah Ha Moment.Often being a high problem solver (DISC “D”), I continued to ruminate on experiences.  During  my early years as an executive leadership and strategic sales coach, I was exposed to three circles of life or what some called the Three Spheres of Control. This exposure created a huge “Ah Ha” Moment for me and has since guided most of my thoughts as our thoughts drive our actions, our behaviors.  The innermost circle and smallest circle in life is what we can control. Here is where we have control over our thoughts and behaviors.  As one of my colleagues once shared, we have no control over what we hear or see, but we have 100% control of what w...
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By Leanne Smith, The Grit and Gratitude Agent
(Dirt Road Real Estate)
Driving around often we see colorful flags that are inches above the ground. These flags are utility flags and serve as identification for various utilities as well as land construction and survey markings. Here is a quick recap or study of what each color means: Red: Electric power, cables, conduit or lighting Yellow: Gas, oil, steam, petroleum or other gaseous materials Orange: Communications such as telephone, Internet, cable TV, alarm or even signal lines Blue: Drinking water (potable), irrigation or slurry Green: Drain lines, sewer or septic field Purple: Water that is reclaimed, recycled or non-potable White: Proposed excavation or construction area Pink: Survey markings (temporary) The American Public Works Association (APWA) designated these colors to standardized the color code...
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By Leanne Smith, The Grit and Gratitude Agent
(Dirt Road Real Estate)
Funny thing about this time of year I have noticed is there are so many Christmas presents that are unwrapped.The Merry Christmas greetings are returned.  More smiles are given. More doors are open.For years I have heard too bad every day is not Christmas.  For me, I believe in attempting to live each day by giving.  Being human sometimes I fail in this attempt.At the store this week, an older gentleman was searching in the baking aisle for rice vinegar.  Another shopper told him the rice vinegar was in the Asian section. Yet, the older gentleman insisted it was where he was looking. So, I walked three aisles over, found the rice vinegar in the Asian section. Then I returned to the baking aisle where the older gentleman was still searching for rice vinegar.  I gave him the rice vinegar ...
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By Leanne Smith, The Grit and Gratitude Agent
(Dirt Road Real Estate)
The 21s of December marks the beginning of Winter. Now being the 22nd we can look forward to longer days and some different weather. During winter here in the high desert of NW AZ, we often receive much needed rain instead of snow.  Those who live at higher elevations, 4,000+ often see snow and sometimes lots of snow.Snow here in Golden Valley, AZ does not last long. Being from the Midwest, both my husband and I know how to drive in snow. Unfortunately, many of the local residents lack that experience. So, when it snows, we stay home to avoid any potential accidents. Since we have been here, I believe it has snowed three times in the last eight years."He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter."John BurroughsLiving here ...
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By Leanne Smith, The Grit and Gratitude Agent
(Dirt Road Real Estate)
As the former President of our local real estate association, Kingman Golden Valley Association of REALTORS® (KGVAR), it never ceased to amaze me of all the last minute rush by real estate agents to meet the 24 continuing education units (CEUs) required by the State of AZ for license renewal. Our Association offered numerous knowledge opportunities as did the local Title Firms at very reasonable prices such as $20 or less for 3 hours of CEUs."The more one knows, the luckier he is for knowledge is the greatest gift of life."L Frank Baum “Adventures in Oz”For me, my knowledge goal is to have all 24 CEUs completed within the first quarter of the new 2 year cycle. My second goal is to have at least 36 CEU's completed for the second year of that cycle. This year the second goal was not achie...
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By Leanne Smith, The Grit and Gratitude Agent
(Dirt Road Real Estate)
One of the local Mom and Pop restaurant’s is The Dambar.  This eatery is currently in its 35th year and continues to serve up some of the best prime rib and other delicacies especially the biscuits.  Yummy!Recently this Steakhouse has supplemented its regular menu with a seasonal menu.  The current seasonal menu features Prime Rib Sliders. Prime Rib Stew and Pork Belly Tacos. I have tried the Prime Rib Sliders that were beyond delicious, very tender and flavorful. Besides the great food, adult beverages and outstanding service, the owner recently had some mural painted on the walls sheltering the outside patio.  Additionally, murals were painted along the walkway into the restaurant. The local artist did a remarkable job.What I truly like about this restaurant is the atmosphere. Casual ...
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By Leanne Smith, The Grit and Gratitude Agent
(Dirt Road Real Estate)
Kingman has numerous local small businesses.  Some of these are restaurants that are open for breakfast and lunch while others are open for lunch and dinner. One of our favorite local eating establishments is “The Rainbow Diner.” Each holiday or season the interior is decorated with wall art and table clothes are changed to reflect the season.Yesterday I took a photo of one of the wall showcasing just some of the decorations. I always wonder where do they store all these decorations?By the way, the food here is home cooked and excellent. The French Toast is some of the best I have ever eaten.If you ever are in Kingman, check out The Rainbow Diner located at 1570 E Northern Ave. Suite A, Kingman, AZ 86409. Hour of operations are 7am MST to 2pm MST. Carry outs are available at 928-757-868...
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By Leanne Smith, The Grit and Gratitude Agent
(Dirt Road Real Estate)
In AZ, is an open range state. What this means is that livestock, cows, can roam freely in the rural countryside unless there are legal fences in place (ARS3-1426). There is not one specific Arizona law for open range, but rather a collection of nine state statues pertaining to livestock and fences. (Arizona Revised Statues Title 3, Chapter 11, Article 7) NOTE: I counted more than nine as listed below: 3-1401 – Stray animals defined as livestock, bison or ratites (large birds like ostrich) 3-1402 (A.B.C.D.E.F.) – Holding and sale of stray livestock; repossession; non liability of state 3-1403 (A.B.) – Report by livestock officer or inspector; preliminary disposition of proceeds of sales; stray fund 3-1404 – Payment of proceeds of sale to owner; final disposition of proceeds 3-1421 (A.B....
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