Once upon a time when looking for domain names, I decided not to bother looking for anything containing “phoenix” “real” or “estate” in the belief that all such names long ago had been taken.  And so Dalton’s Arizona Homes was born as http://www.daltonsazhomes.com.

That domain name remains … but as of this afternoon, it’s no longer the name for this blog.

What do I talk about here? Phoenix real estate, for the most part. So what could make more sense than AllPhoenixRealEstate.com? Not much. Because even though this isn’t all Phoenix real estate all the time, it is all the time and some of the time Phoenix real estate.

Enough fun with keywords.

Here’s the downside of the switch - my backlinks are shot. I’m working on some sort of redirect to take care of that but not having much luck due to the way this whole thing is set up. So if you’re trying to get here via a link from somewhere else, you’re going to end up in 404 Error hell.

My apologies.

In any event (and for better or worse), a rose by any other name is still a rose. And this blog by any other name still will be the Dalton’s Arizona Homes blog to which you have become accustomed.

Just with a snazzier name.

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My four loyal readers tend to break into two distinct groups - the public (which includes both my mom and my wife) and other real estate agents.

This first one’s for the agents in the audience, particularly my blogging peers … with all of the changes the last couple of days, nothing seems more fitting …

For everyone else … who doesn’t like a flying monkey?

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If you feel a Trulia Voices post coming on, you’re absolutely right!

Here’s the set up … a prospective investor from Italy asks about the Tucson real estate market and the feasibility of taking advantage of the Euro’s strength against the dollar to invest in a home in the Old Pueblo and turn it into a rental property.

Like clockwise, “helpful” agents come out of the woodwork from across the country not to add the slightest bit of value to the conversation but merely to ask why this person isn’t looking in their neck of their woods.

• “I sell Real Estate in Orange County California”
• ” Why just Tucson? Have you checked out the Western North Carolina area?”
• “I am not familiar with the Toucson area but I can tell you that in the Northwest panhandle of Florida along the Gulf of Mexico your dollars could purchase a small beach side home or condominimum[sp]”

Of course, the last answer assumes Mother Nature doesn’t relocate your home to an inland part of the state. But that’s another argument for another time.

Do any of these folks truly believe their look professional ignoring the question and blatantly pandering for business? Even Tobey shows a little more dignity than this when begging for table scraps - not much, but at least a little bit.

It’s times like this that I’m almost ashamed to be in the same profession as these types. If anything, the transparency in real estate has been most successful in exposing the lack of depth and absence of either logic or empathy that many agents bring to the table.

Oh, well … back to marking the answers as spam, not that it seems to have much impact on the ability to post future drivel on Trulia Voices.

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