AVA Update AVA, a downtown hotel/condo project, has received their Master Use Development Permit and is anticipating construction to commerce this fall. The sales center, located at the corner of Olive Way and 8th Ave, will be open to homebuyers by appointment... 

Awareness of child abuse brought on by Play Day The Marion Star MARION — Soggy ground made the task of planting pinwheels an easier task for cousins Chezney Pedraza, 7, and Nicole Varnedoe, 6, Saturday at the inaugural "Pinwheels for Prevention Play Day" Saturday at Marion County Children Services, 1680 Marion-Waldo Road. 

AZ Home Inspector Licensing Board going away Arizona Home Inspectors need your help! Arizona's home inspector licensing agency, the AZ Board of Technical Registration (BTR) is inefficient, expensive and allegedly corrupt. In fact, Arizona lawmakers are thinking about eliminating the BTR altogether (SB1171), and moving home inspector licensing to the Registrar of Contractors (ROC). As most of my readers already know, I'm co-owner of Homewerx Home Inspections, one of the Valley's leading home inspection companies since 1999. As such, I  

Bad Bitch Bad Bitch I love the work I do even if I do not always love my job. If it were all enjoyable and rewarding they wouldn’t have to pay you for doing it. As Director of Housing Services for a non-profit housing counseling agency, I have had a role in helping 685 people become homeowners. Most of these people were low income. The majority was African-American. Many were moving out of public housing. Many of them were single mothers. Most of them were the first in their family to ever achieve hom