Welcome to Via Realty!

What are FICO and CLUE?

When you hang out with real estate people, you will hear a lot of lingo or jargon. Two very important words that often appear in real estate conversations these days are FICO and CLUE, and it is helpful for you to be CLUED-in to make your real estate experience more successful.

FICO®

This is from myfico.com:

FICO® scores are your credit rating.
They range from 300-850, higher is better
Most lenders base approval on them
Higher scores mean lower interest rates
FICO® scores are calculated based on your rating in five general categories:
Payment history, amount owed, length of credit history, new credit, types of credit used.
For the full scoop, go to myfico.com.

CLUE® Reports

CLUE reports are insurance history reports on losses associated with personal property. Of particular interest are losses due to water damage in a home. CLUE reports are important to home buyers and sellers. A home with a bad CLUE report will be hard to insure, and as a result, hard to sell, and to buy. It is very important to know about this issue and prepare your purchase contract with this as a contingency when you are purchasing a home. This from Choice Trust:

"The C.L.U.E. ^®Personal Property report provides a five year history of losses associated with an individual and his/her personal property. The following data will be identified for each loss: date of loss, loss type, and amount paid along with general information such as policy number, claim number and insurance company name." For more info click here!

Custom Home Search! I

If you are looking for a particular type of home,(fixup, condo, ranch, mud adobe, etc) or have an interest in a particular neighborhood or area, sign up for our Instant Homefinder e-mail service. Tell us what you are looking for and we will instruct the MLS to e-mail you new listings the instant that they are entered into the MLS system! Click here and tell us what you are looking for. The computer will do the rest!

Townhomes and Condos!

We have been looking at a lot of town homes and condos with clients who are interested in leaving their yard work behind and purchasing a home that offers more leisure time in exchange for a monthly Homeowners Association fee. Such fees cover common grounds maintenance and insurance and sometimes water, roof and other items. Town homes and condos may also be a good choice for parents who want their scholar to study instead of pulling weeds in the yard of a college investment property. Some of these properties offer garages and security which enable you to leave the property for extended periods of time, a perfect scenario for Snowbirds. If you would like to receive our list of best buys, click here and put "Best Buys" in the message space.

We recently listed a great affordable property. It is a fix up and although it is a town home, with shared ,common walls, there is no association fee. See it here.

If you are looking for something bigger or better, here is a link to our Town Home/ Condo search page . There is a lot to know when looking at a town home or condo. You need to check out the bylaws and covenants as well as the financial health of the association, to avoid problems with the HOA or being stuck with an unexpected assessment. We can help you navigate this territory. For a free report on HOA's click here and put HOA in the message space.

We are Marketing to Canadians!

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Testimonials

Modesty is not a common trait in the sales business. This is true in the Real Estate business as well. There are thousands of real estate agents in Tucson (a number steadily shrinking now that the market has become more challenging) and many of them will not hesitate to tell you how great they are. We prefer to have our clients tell you how great we are. Here is a link to our testimonial page. Take a look at what our clients are saying about us.

The Via Realty Promise

If you do choose to have us represent you in the sale of your home, we offer you this promise

Canadians!

If you are comparing Arizona to Florida, take a look at this!

Welcome Broadmoor Neighbors!

The search buttons near the top on the menu to the left will get you immediate results for Broadmoor listings and El Encanto/Colonia Solana listings for your no hassle custom searches! If you want another neighborhood search, click here and put the neighborhood that you are interested in, in the message space, and we will instruct the MLS computer to send you new listings instantly, as they appear on the MLS.

Million Dollar Home Tour! Click here to see!

If you are looking to buy or sell residential property, a Golf Villa or Town home/Condo in Tucson, you have come to the right place! To search for properties in a particular area, click on one of the search buttons on the left. You have access to all of the Tucson Multiple Listing Service (MLS) inventory on this site, sorted with sophisticated technology, with the click of a button! You can also look at select Golf Properties here. We also have available links to Cobblestone , La Reserve, and Dove Mountain, If you are looking for a something very special, you will find it here..

Left Hand Links

On the left side of the screen, you will find a button for a MLS property search as well as News and Comment, our more than occasional real estate blog, a Mapquest link, Testimonials, (only the good ones) and links to Yahoo Finance, Canada.com, and the Canadian Snowbird Association. There is a button for the University of Arizona, home of the Wildcats, the best Financial Calculator that we have ever seen, information on 1031 tax exchanges and Bookshelf, a list of books that we are currently reading. Also, at the bottom of this page, you will find scores of helpful and interesting links about real estate, Tucson and everything in between. Feel free to bookmark this site as your Tucson Arizona Real Estate resource. Please e-mail us with any suggestions to make your future visits more informative and enjoyable.

Custom Neighborhood Searches

Here you can search several popular neighborhoods in central Tucson including Broadmoor, El Encanto and Colonia Solana, and a broader Sam Hughes and University of Arizona area search. Want a Fix up? How about one under $300,000? Or a Fix up for $300,000 and up? You will find them here. We also have Cochise County land and home listings. You might be surprised what you see there! We know a couple of excellent agents in Cochise County, so if you want something there, let us know.

About Us:

Via Realty is a small, boutique real estate company established on January 1st 2000.

Wayne D Anderson, the Designated Broker, is a native of Tucson and Realtor since 1989. He is an Accredited Buyers Representative, Certified Residential Specialist and a Graduate of the Realtor's Institute.

On the staff are Realtors Adrian Hall, an Arizona native who has a law degree and is a low handicap golfer;and Ed Zapata, a Tucson native and golfer working on his MBA. Finally, Nate Watson recently joined us, adding his high energy and expertise to our company. With an EMT background, Nate understands responsibility.

We believe that it is important to have fun at what we do, and whatever we do, do to the best of our ability. Most of our business is from referrals, so it is profitable to have happy clients.

Areas of Expertise

We specialize in residential real estate, with an emphasis on residential resale. We can also help those of you looking for golf and vacation properties. Although now back in Tucson, Wayne had spent several years as a licensed real estate salesperson in Ontario Canada. Our Canadian Snowbird friends are in luck, since he speaks the language of Canadian Real Estate too! We have excellent connections with commercial property and business brokers, land specialists and large income property brokers in both countries. We do what we know, and refer work that is outside our expertise to other appropriate experts. It has worked pretty well so far! Having been in business for as long as we have, we know who to call! -The Pros@ Via Realty