by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Aug 16, 2017 | Canada and Canadians, Global Buyers + Foreign Investment
Overnight travel by Canadians to the U.S. for business and pleasure increased each month during the eight months prior to May 2017. And between Jan and April of this year, Canadians made 4.8 million non-business trips to the U.S., an increase of 6.3% over the same...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Aug 9, 2017 | Arizona and Its Amenities
The Phoenix metro area ranks third on the list of the 20 fastest-growing tech markets based on year-over-year data. ZipRecruiter’s analysis of its database of more than 8 million active jobs found that Phoenix is one of the best examples of how the tech industry is no...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Aug 7, 2017 | Animal Stories (mostly Dogs in the Military)
I stick to real estate and Arizona economic topics in this blog, but can’t pass up writing about my two favorite things – pets and military history. So I told you about Reckless, a Marine Korean war horse. This time the war is WWII and about a dog. Phoenix...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Aug 2, 2017 | Global Buyers + Foreign Investment
Foreign investment in residential U.S. real estate has skyrocketed according to the 2017 Profile of International Activity in U.S. Residential Real Estate. In the 12 month period from April 2016 – March 2017, 284,455 homes were bought by foreign buyers (up 32%), for a...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Jul 27, 2017 | Renters and Renting
If you are a landlord, there are some maintenance tasks your tenants should be doing. For example, replacing the air filters for the HVAC unit. Or making sure the batteries are functioning in the smoke detectors. These are simple yet important functions most landlords...
