Should I Go House Hunting During the Holidays?
Are you on the house hunt? Whether you’re just beginning or in the 10th month of searching for your perfect home or land, there’s a popular notion that winter is the time to hunker down and stay inside instead of moving into a new home. So, should you buy a home or wait until […]
An Update on Tucson’s Catalina Foothills Lot Market
I know I’ve been busy lately listing and particularly selling vacant lots in the foothills area, but I didn’t realize just how active this segment of the land market currently is until I took a look at the current Tucson Association of Realtors, Multiple Listing Service statistics. In the past 6 months alone, there have […]
Ready to Build your Custom Home? It’s time for a Construction Loan
You’ve decided to build your dream home and now it’s time to pursue a construction loan. Whether you own you lot or need to purchase a lot, Prime Lending can help. If you already own your lot, we can use lot equity and apply it to the down payment requirement on your construction loan. […]
Reading Topography
As I discussed in my last blog, reading topography can be a bit of an art. Those who deal with it regularly gain the capability to see the contours literally come into focus as a three dimensional pattern. For example, I can look at a topographic map and tell whether the contours are forming the […]
Relief from Topography
My father, ‘Sut’ Settlemeyer was a surveyor for the United States Geological Survey (USGS). He referred to the maps they produced as quad, or relief maps. The universal geologic language of relief mapping is contour topography. Now what exactly is a contour? Simply, nothing more than a step. Just as a flight of stairs is […]