Traveling This Weekend? Here is a Gas Price Map

From GasBuddy.Com. If you visit their site you can zoom in on your area and get an idea for what prices are like nearby. Great tool.

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For Phoenix Metro (a bit hard to read, but if you go to GasBuddy.Com you can view a larger much readable map):

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Have a great Memorial Day Weekend everyone!

RE Bloggers Networking Event a Grand Success

This mornings inaugural AZ EV RE Bloggers Network meeting was fantastic and I personally enjoyed it tremendously. Agents from around the valley (and Tucson) attended and participated in this sharing of the minds event. I want to personally thank agent Candace Robinson (HomeSmart) and Shelli Bates for organizing the first of what is hoped to be many blogging forum.

I apologize for the lack of pictures, but I didn’t take my camera with me and so don’t have any to share right now. But I’m sure Candace will send some over and I’ll be sure to put it up once I have a few. In fact the whole program was taped – so hopefully we’ll be able to have that available soon.

Just to recap, all the speakers shared some great information – from tips and tricks to how much increase they have seen in their business since they started blogging. I learned a lot – so thank you for sharing. For me it was a pleasure to finally meet the Lady in Red, Teri Ellis, Paul Slaybaugh and Mike Jones from Tucson. Jay Thompson (our local celebrity) was the keynote speaker and he spilled the beans on the key to his blogging success! It’s always a pleasure to hear him speak – so thank you!

As promised I have uploaded and made available my PowerPoint presentation for those interested. It is from my blogging 101 seminar from last year and is a bit outdated (that is how fast the blogging world is evolving). Click below to download:

Blogging 101 by Shailesh Ghimire

The organizers and sponsors are discussing the possibility of holding these kind of get together events on a monthly basis and in a more central location. Please contact them directly if you are interested in attending the next event.

Thank you to Shelli Bates of Land America Title and Ron Kohatsu of Win Gateway (Home Inspection) for sponsoring this event.

4.29 pm update: Teri has posted pictures on her blog.

Friday AM update – some pictures courtesy of Teri:

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The captive audience (there were a lot more people than what can be seen here)

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Friday (4/25) PM update: Paul Slaybaugh has a complete re-cap with a whole new set of pictures!

Mysterious Lights Over Phoenix, Aliens Maybe?

So everyone is talking about the lights that appeared over the Phoenix sky last night. The strange thing is the lights hung in the sky for a while and didn’t appear to be moving. AZCentral has a sideshow of pictures and a video of the lights for those interested.

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Talk radio is abuzz with those who saw it. I personally didn’t see it but here are some eyewitness reports form the local radio KTAR:

“From my position, it looked like they were just hanging, not moving at all,” said one man, who called 92-3′s “Gaydos After Dark.” He said he “absolutely” saw something.

A woman caller said, “It looked like four red tower lights, but it was pretty high up in the air. I called my husband and he said, `Get home, what’s wrong with you?’”

A man in north Phoenix told CBS-5: “They were about 3,000 feet high, approximately. They looked as though they were kind of hovering or floating from west to east, very slowly. They were up there for 15 or 20 minutes.”

Those who saw them said the lights were visible about 13 minutes before moving off to the east.

I’m not a conspiracy theory type person. Nor am I one to think that we have been visited – yet. But, this is kind of strange. However, if these are indeed alien visitors, I want to welcome them and make peace with them so we can live together in harmony! Maybe they are interested in buying some of our real estate? That to me is great news!

However, we currently do not have an alien loan program. Despite this, the Phoenix market does offer some excellent deals for buyers who can make cash offers. Once you establish some degree of US credit, we can certainly look into refinancing you into a suitable loan program, and help you leverage your assets with this debt to build long term wealth. Unless of course all you want to do is just enslave us and take over our planet.