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When it comes to building the home of your dreams, there are tons of online resources which can help you choose your home design plan. More often than not, when calculating your costs for any given building plan, people assume that the calculated price is a complete price list for...

Whether you buy a 7000 square foot, infill lot in the heart of the city, a gated 3.3 acre lot in a northeastern subdivision, a 40 acre parcel on a dirt road 30 miles out of town, or anything in between,there will be some guidelines regarding what, how, or where...

When people visit Southern Arizona in the summer, they often wonder just how it can be that people could live in this heat year-round. The question is often answered with a colloquial desert saying: It's a dry heat. Yes, it is indeed a dry heat here in Tucson and Southern...

One of the most valuable tools I use every year to answer the above question is a heat map. No, this doesn't chart the rising June temperatures—a necessary hardship to endure while waiting for the cooling, monsoon rains of July and August. The heat map is actually a statistical tool...