On your way up? | 14237 North 11th Street, Phoenix, Arizona 85022

You've worked hard to get where you are. You might still have a long way to go, but there are rewards along the way. This house can be one of them.



You're midway up Lookout Mountain, and the view from here is stunning. The home is livable just the way it is, but there is still plenty of room for you to express yourself. The price is right and the location is unrepeatable. This home needs nothing but you to complete it.

But in case you need a little boost, the seller wants to help you out. If your good credit gets you an FHA loan but you need a helping hand with your down payment and closing costs, the seller wants to work with you. Through the AmeriDream and Nehemiah Grant Programs this seller can help you with the up-front cash you'll need -- The 3% down payment that FHA loans require and up to 3% of the closing costs.

Now let's talk about this property... When you travel up Lookout Mountain from Hearn and 11th Street you'll go through the ascendent Gold Key Estates neighborhood. Houses were built here from 1907 to 1985, overlooking Moon Valley. You're up in the heights, yet surrounded by mountains. There's the peak of Lookout Mountain ahead of you and North Mountain behind you. Look over your left shoulder to see Shaw Butte and Moon Mountain directly to the west. With the Lookout Mountain Preserve just a few blocks to your right, you'll have one of the city's less crowded parks in its Mountain Preserve system to enjoy the Sonoran Desert.

And what about the house itself? It was built in 1979 by a wonderful, successful, well-traveled couple, fond of the arts and fond of entertaining. Here they lived out their lives, maintaining their home with love and the pride of people whose lives are well lived.

We're going to talk about this home in detail, but here are the critical details in condensed form:


This home is offered at $325,000. If you pursue the links in the sidebar, you will discover everything we know about it. Better yet, see it for yourself. Call Greg Swann to set up a showing: 602-740-7531.

Open House: Sundays at Noon.

Where the heart is...

Our homes are structures, shelters, domiciles. But the idea of a residence encompasses so much more than mere tentage -- mere respite from heat and cold and wind and rain and the relentless summer sun. If all we needed was a place to escape the elements, we might just as well live in insulated barns.

But your home -- your residence -- is much more than that. It's love and marriage and family, of course, home and hearth, kith and kin. But at a more fundamental level it is a reflection of who you are, an enduring stake stuck into the earth that declares to all: This is who we are, this is what we believe in and stand for and cherish.

This is not where we live, not how we live. This structure, this shelter, this domicile -- this home -- is our lives, as much an essential part of what we are as our heads, our hands, our hearts.

Home is where the heart is? A home like this is the beating heart of lives lived wisely and well.

Follow the links in the sidebar above to see dozens of photos of this wonderful home...