What type of weather do you prefer, that plays a factor as well.Moral of this story:  Go for quality of life - you only have one!

It makes sense to be ready if the supposed drop in prices and massive forecasts for foreclosures are true.

Opportunity is always out there weather it's a sellers market, or 7% interest rates or cheap money and covid like now.

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Also likely HUD will offer new homeowners credits on rehabs that includes weatherization.

If you can weather the next 3-5 years you probably will be rewarded.

Maricopa County (Phoenix/Mesa metro) has 3.8 million people and this might need to be considered as much as the fact that this year, the area had more than 100 days over 100 degrees (105 forecast for today).

Setting it for 3x a week and forgetting it doesn't work because the weather can be erratic here with storms.

Houses with pools in Texas typically do really well since it's pool weather for most of the weather.