LivPortland Network: Meet Julie Halter - Your Guide to Scottsdale, Arizona Real Estate Market

Episode Summary: In this exciting episode, we chat with Julie Halter, a dynamic realtor who made the leap from Oregon to sunny Scottsdale, Arizona. Julie shares her journey in real estate, highlights the vibrant market landscape, and gives insights into investment opportunities in the area. She also shares her love for hiking and her favorite local dining spot, along with a funny summer mishap that every tech user can relate to!

Episode Highlights:

• Meet Julie Halter: Discover Julie’s transition from a successful real estate career in Oregon to living and working in Scottsdale. She discusses her dedication to hiking, including her favorite trails and early mornings spent on Camelback Mountain.
• Collaboration and Record-Breaking Sales: Julie shares her journey from a new agent to a successful realtor, emphasizing the importance of teamwork and learning over competition, highlighted by a record-setting residential sale project in Oregon.
• Market Overview: Gain insights into the Scottsdale real estate landscape.
• Investment Opportunities: For potential investors, Julie highlights that a two-bedroom condo starts at around $550k, with options for both short- and long-term rentals, while single-family homes with pools typically start at about $900k.
• Finding Affordable Options: Julie suggests areas along Scottsdale Road, particularly north of Camelback, for first-time homebuyers, with standalone homes starting around $750k to $800k.
• Bonus: Discover Julie's favorite Scottsdale restaurant, known for stunning views and a lively vibe! 

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Transcript

00:00:08:12 - 00:00:35:17

Joe Reitzug

Welcome to Off the Record talking real estate with Joe and Makayla. If you're interested in the Portland, Oregon real estate market and want the unvarnished inside scoop, you've come to the right place. Thanks for giving us a listen. Okay, everyone, thanks for joining us. Happy to have you here today. We've got a special treat for you. We have a guest, a personal friend of mine, and a fantastic realtor, Julie Halter.

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Joe Reitzug

Hi, Julie.

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Julie Halter

Hi. How are you guys?

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Joe Reitzug

Good. How are you doing?

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Julie Halter

I'm good. It's good to be here.

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Joe Reitzug

Yeah. Good to have you.

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Julie Halter

Hi, Makayla.

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Makayla Mast

Hi. I'm good. Last week, I had Covid. Today I got my tooth fixed. So it's only up from here. Wow. I'm feeling good.

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Joe Reitzug

Things are looking up for you. Yeah. Show them that smile.

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Julie Halter

That’s perfect.

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Joe Reitzug

Well, I think if you're listening on the pod, I'll just give you an outline of what you're missing. If you're not watching on YouTube. You can definitely tell which one of us lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, and which of the other two do not.

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Julie Halter

Thank you.. I mean, we're recording in my guest room slash home office. So this is where you would be residing for this. Come on in. Yeah. And it's been so hot here. This was my first full summer here in Scottsdale. 

00:01:34:07 - 00:01:38:08

Julie Halter

It is toasty

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Joe Reitzug

Yeah, I saw 115 116 degrees.

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Julie Halter

Yeah. Wow. And I am I'm solar powered. I love the sun. I still manage to hike every day that I was in town. Every day. And you just, you know, just like in life, you have to pivot. So instead of getting up at 430 in the morning to start hiking, I would get up at three, 330. Ooh, I am 90 degrees.

00:02:01:09 - 00:02:04:18

Joe Reitzug

That is some dedication to hiking. I don't think I have.

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Julie Halter

It changed my life. Well, I go to bed at like 7:00. I know, I hate to spoil it. Well, am boring in the evening, you know.

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Makayla Mast

Yeah, well, I would be too, if I was getting up at 330. It's 90 degrees at three in the morning.

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Julie Halter

In the summer. It was. Yeah.

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Makayla Mast

Crazy.

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Julie Halter

Or I should say, last summer it was. Yes. Yeah. It's not a joke, but truthfully, I was in Seattle last weekend visiting my daughter, and it was in the 80s, which was a little unusual for this time of year. And it felt warmer because there's more humidity in the air, which. Yeah, not that much. But when you get used to this dry.

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Joe Reitzug

Yeah, it was 93 here in Portland on Monday.

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Julie Halter

I love that.

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Joe Reitzug

The end of September.

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Julie Halter

Yeah. Crazy. Yes. All those poor little kids going back to school with no better sweating was like, oh, yeah.

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Joe Reitzug

So a little background on how we know Julie. Julie was a broker with Cascade Hasson Sotheby's here in Portland, Oregon. Lake Oswego office. And, Julie and I have worked together on some different projects and some very successful ones, a couple of big old projects that were super fun. And we always had such a great time.

00:03:15:00 - 00:03:23:04

Joe Reitzug

And she has an incredible outlook on life and real estate, and we thought it'd be fun to bring her on. So thank you so much, Julie. We really appreciate it.

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Julie Halter

Well thank you. I'm honored to be here. Really. I'll never forget  the help that you gave me. You always have given me. I'm going to get all teary. I share the story really quick with your listeners about really how we became not just colleagues and partners, but friends. You know, I it's like family to me.

00:03:43:19 - 00:04:04:06

Julie Halter

I got a call. I thought it was a joke, and I was, you know, a brand new agent. And, you know, when you're new, you get a lot of calls that waste your time. This was not one of them. And to this day, I still don't know how he got my information, but I, he said, look, I've got this significant property and I've tried to sell it off and on for ten years.

00:04:04:06 - 00:04:27:07

Julie Halter

I love my agent that I've worked with, but I think we just need to change the narrative. Would you be willing to come down and take a look at it? I said sure. So came down and I did all my homework on the property. Prior to it was nearly 200 acres with two homes, and it was the iconic property of the entire county that he did want to work with, with me.

00:04:27:07 - 00:04:55:09

Julie Halter

And I said, that's great. There's no way I can take this project down by myself. I'm going to contact one of my trusted colleagues who's an absolute expert, and we will do this together. So I called Joe and I just said, Will you please do this with me? Because quite frankly, at that time, I don't even know how to write a contract, which I was very clear about that with our client took us two and a half years to sell this property, and I had every experience you could possibly think of in real estate in taking on this listing.

00:04:55:09 - 00:05:17:12

Julie Halter

And they were all good, you know, they were challenging some of them, but they were all really great experiences. And I'm a big believer in collaboration, not competition. And Joe you have that same mindset I know you do too Makayla.. And it's a really beautiful thing. And I would rather share and you know learn from others and who cares what the paycheck is at the end.

00:05:17:12 - 00:05:26:17

Julie Halter

That's not why we're doing this right. But the experiences that we had together, I thought were so memorable. 

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Joe Reitzug

We saw a lot, too. There were a lot of craziness on that project, but the property was so incredibly beautiful and our clients were wonderful, wonderful people. And I'm so happy that we got to do that together and that it ended up being a positive for everyone involved. That was, that was really a cool deal.

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Makayla Mast

Yeah. Didn't it set some kind of record sale?

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Julie Halter

Yeah, the year that we sold it, because Joe and I sold it twice.

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Joe Reitzug

Yeah, we had to sell it twice for a.

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Julie Halter

Whole nother podcast, year that that it's sold and closed successfully and successfully funded. We set a record for a largest residential sale on acreage for the entire state of Oregon.

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Makayla Mast

Wow, that's so impressive. How cool.

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Joe Reitzug

5.9 million.

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Julie Halter

Yeah, that was a big one. That was a big sell for in, you know, during the High Times.

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Joe Reitzug

Oh, geez.

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Julie Halter

We have now since passed.

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Joe Reitzug

Yeah. Right. Right. Yeah. It could be back down to five nine right now.

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Julie Halter

Yeah. That's true, that's true. We can sell it for that easy all day. Yeah.

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Joe Reitzug

For sure. So let's talk a little bit about what took you down to the desert. Why Scottsdale.

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Julie Halter

Why not? I mean, there's so many reasons I love it here. Yeah. You know, I came to Scottsdale from my very first trip. I came from a very small town in Oregon. I'm three generations deep in Oregon. Most of all, my family still lives there, and I came here in 1999 on a girls trip in college, and I knew that this was home for me, and I just didn't know how to make it happen.

00:07:06:20 - 00:07:26:16

Julie Halter

Yeah. So essentially, I've been working to make that happen for this long. And I really started putting a plan into place about three years ago. And I still have my, what I call my private book of business with my clients in Oregon. So I'm what, the states. So I did what most realtors never do. I did what we encourage our clients to do.

00:07:26:16 - 00:07:49:00

Julie Halter

I moved yeah, yeah, yeah I moved here for the lifestyle. I love being in the sun, all the outdoor activities. There's quite a few sporting events. We have quite a few professional teams. And so my pro teams here. So that's a lot of fun. Yeah. There's just a lot to do here. And I am really not a big fan of rain, I get it.

00:07:49:00 - 00:07:56:09

Julie Halter

Why people like it. But I just thought, you know, I gave that 49 years. Yeah, that was enough.

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Joe Reitzug

All right, so let's talk about Scottsdale a little bit. What's your favorite hike? I know you're a big hiker.

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Julie Halter

I am a big hiker. I hike camelback every morning, but. And I hike the Echo Canyon side.

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Makayla Mast

Ooh. And how long of a hike is that? Where do you start?

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Julie Halter

So, my criteria when I purchased a property here about three and a half years ago, was I told my agent, okay, I have to have high ceilings, lots of windows. And I can't be more than ten minutes from my front door to the Echo Canyon trailhead, so, like, you're. Wow. Because all the real estate within ten minutes of that is amazing.

00:08:32:01 - 00:08:59:10

Julie Halter

Yeah. So I bought this little project condo, and I've been slowly, you know, renovating, if you will. The hike itself is only 2.6 miles round trip, and that's only if you go from the base of Camelback on the front side on the Echo Canyon to the top of the highest, then the highest home, if you will. On Wednesdays, there's a group of us that call it Hump Day.

00:08:59:12 - 00:09:21:18

Julie Halter

So we'll hike up to the top and then down the Cholla side, So yeah 1.3 up and then 1.3 down. It's the it's the gain in elevation. That's the killer. you're climbing rocks and it's a lot of fun. It's like being a kid again.

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Julie Halter

Yeah. Sure is

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Makayla Mast

So awesome.

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Joe Reitzug

You told us before we, went on air here that you in the summertime, you were getting up at 330 in the morning to do your hikes.

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Julie Halter

I was three, and believe it or not, I wasn't the first person there.

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Joe Reitzug

Good Lord.

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Julie Halter

You got to stay really hydrated here. 

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Joe Reitzug

I draw the line at 5 a.m. for my tee times and that got to be something pretty special. But 3 a.m. okay.

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Julie Halter

I mean, it's a little extreme, but I, you know, as I've said before, I don't think that I'm strict. I just think that I'm very consistent with my expectations of myself and. Yeah. Nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, it's important to you, you you'll create the space and the time for it. And hiking is really important to me.

00:10:07:08 - 00:10:28:15

Julie Halter

It really it does more than just get me outside. You know, it's it's the physical benefits. It's the mental, the emotional. And I've, you know, I grew up going to church and I went to private school, but I've never felt closer to the earth and our creator than I have on that mountain versus sitting in a pew. 

00:10:28:15 - 00:10:32:22

Julie Halter

But yeah, for me it feels good.

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Joe Reitzug

Yeah, that's cool that you can find that special piece.

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Julie Halter

Yeah, yeah.

00:10:39:12 - 00:10:43:00

Joe Reitzug

Let's talk a little real estate. Why not?

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Julie Halter

I mean, this.

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Joe Reitzug

Real estate podcast.

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Julie Halter

Data.

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Joe Reitzug

So, Scottsdale, what kind of price point are we looking at there? What's our median? Do you know? I mean, last time I looked, it was like $650k, $700k somewhere around there.

00:10:58:21 - 00:11:22:04

Julie Halter

Yeah. And those are typically not where you would probably would like to be depending. I mean, it's such a varied market. That's what's so interesting about, you know, relocating and, you know, recreating what I created in Oregon here, forced me to grow in ways that I didn't really realize. Right. So in Oregon, I had long term relationships with people.

00:11:22:08 - 00:11:43:18

Julie Halter

People remembered the nice things that I did for them years ago. And, you know, we had that we had that built in trust already here. People don't really know me. Right?. So unless it's a referral from another Sotheby's agent or something. So I'm a lot more data driven now, which was a part of my, my practice that I did need to sharpen my skills on.

00:11:43:18 - 00:11:59:01

Julie Halter

So I'm grateful for that. In Paradise Valley, where I live, if you are going to buy a lot, let's say teardown, teardown, start at 2.5 million. Yeah. You know, an acre is the smallest lot that you can have.

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Joe Reitzug

Really? An acre is the smallest that.

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Julie Halter

That's the that's the neighborhood. One of the neighborhood criteria rules. So it's very similar to Denmark for an example. As far as that, that type of property, the turnover in that neighborhood is very, very low and it's in very high demand.  And Scottsdale itself, it just really depends on where you're at in Scottsdale.

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Julie Halter

You know, if you wanted to buy, let's say you want you were an investor and you wanted to purchase a, a two to a two bedroom, two bathroom condo as a, you know, short or long term rental with the with the anticipation of, okay, eventually I'll, I'll winter there right anywhere between, you know, five, five 50s about your starting point and you're going to put some equity into that.

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Joe Reitzug

Yeah.

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Julie Halter

Yeah.

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Joe Reitzug

Okay.

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Julie Halter

But in general, you know, A 3-2 single family residence with a with a nice pool, you're starting around $900k. 

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Joe Reitzug

The desert's a nice place to be you know supply demand if the demand is there right.

00:13:04:20 - 00:13:05:21

Julie Halter

Yes. It is.

00:13:05:22 - 00:13:29:18

Joe Reitzug

Beautiful. So Paradise Valley I've heard amazing things about I've also seen some different, you know, stuff real estate wise where those price points get through. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Where would you if someone was coming to Scottsdale Phoenix area and they were on a budget. Right now, but you still wanted to get them into a decent neighborhood. Decent area.

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Joe Reitzug

Where would you suggest they go?

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Julie Halter

Well, tell me a little bit more about your client, Joe, to make lifestyle, you know, do they want to be near a golf course? Because we have over 320 courses here.

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Joe Reitzug

Only 327.

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Julie Halter

Over three.

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Joe Reitzug

Over 327.

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Julie Halter

And I'm not even a golfer yet. I haven't made the time to learn, so.

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Joe Reitzug

I have not moved there yet.

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Makayla Mast

That's stop selling your. He's going to leave me.

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Joe Reitzug

Sold. We are living Hillsboro, honey! Yeah, I you know, I'm just like a first time homebuyer, right? Someone that just wants to get into either something nice. Condo, nice townhouse, or if they can get into a three, two or even a two 1 or 3 one short, where would you suggest, you know, pointing them in what direction? Around. Around the area.

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Julie Halter

Right. I personally love the I always called the Scottsdale, you know, Scottsdale Road, the main corridor. You know, we're seeing more growth north of Curlin, which was the most north, you know, it neighborhood, if you will. There's three malls in one intersection. It's a great, great restaurants, great shopping. There's just a lot happening. So from just slightly north of Carol and clear down to, you know, Old Town, which everybody knows.

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Julie Halter

Old town. Yeah. And if you are in within, you know, 6 to 10 blocks east or west of Scottsdale, that to me is the primo area. And you can have all sorts of different lifestyles, but, you know, you can get, I would say, if you wanted a standalone, depending on neighborhood, you know, prepare to spend at least 750, 800 start to start, we start there and then go up from there.

00:15:20:13 - 00:15:21:10

Julie Halter

Got it.

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Makayla Mast

Okay. Good to know. I know there are a lot of transplant buyers, as we call them. Are people relocating to Scottsdale? Are you still seeing a lot of those or has it kind of chilled out after the post Covid craziness?

00:15:34:22 - 00:15:57:07

Julie Halter

In fact, post Covid, I think the demand is just as high. Wow. And what's interesting is, you know, of the top three inbound cities, it's very similar to Portland in that way. So Portland's top three inbound cities are Seattle, Los Angeles. And I'm looking at my cheat sheet, San Francisco, of course. And those are the top three in Portland.

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Julie Halter

So the top three here, two out of the three of the same. So here is Los Angeles, Seattle and Dallas, Texas.

00:16:06:07 - 00:16:06:18

Makayla Mast

Okay.

00:16:06:19 - 00:16:09:15

Joe Reitzug

Really, I would have thought. Dallas. That's cool.

00:16:09:17 - 00:16:21:23

Julie Halter

Yeah. And what's nice about Dallas Buyers is that they're already used to the heat and the for the quite frankly, they enjoy the fact that it's not as humid. So there's change for them. Yeah. Yeah.

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Joe Reitzug

They don't mind the heat but it's not quite as muggy. Yeah okay. That's interesting.

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Julie Halter

Yeah.

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Joe Reitzug

Nice. So investors do you, do you, do you find a lot of investors in the marketplace?

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Julie Halter

I do, my first three clients here are all real estate investors.

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Joe Reitzug

No kidding. Yeah. Now, are they looking to flip, or, you know, buy and hold or are they looking at short term rental?

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Julie Halter

Correct. Short term rental, long term lease rentals. Buy and holds. Absolutely.

00:16:51:23 - 00:16:52:12

Joe Reitzug

Okay. Yeah.

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Julie Halter

Yeah. Statistically I I've been reading up on this with the exception of the tough years, you know, and I think A708 in the last 50 years if you invested in real estate here in the Phoenix metro, you know, Scottsdale area, you would come out with a profit.

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Joe Reitzug

Right?

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Julie Halter

Yeah.

00:17:12:05 - 00:17:14:09

Joe Reitzug

So pretty big profit.

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Julie Halter

Yeah. So when people ask me, what would you recommend for an investor here in the Scottsdale market, my answer is always buy now.

00:17:23:18 - 00:17:25:08

Joe Reitzug

Nice, nice.

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Makayla Mast

Yeah, that's good advice. There's so many short term rental opportunities there. Is that getting oversaturated yet or are there still that many people coming to visit.

00:17:35:06 - 00:17:56:00

Julie Halter

A little bit? And here's why. We, had some some growing pains with the short term rental market in the Phoenix Metro area. And so they've implemented some laws to protect not only homeowners, but also the tenants that come in and and to protect the integrity of the neighborhoods. Right, right. Yeah. So that has cooled it off a bit.

00:17:56:02 - 00:18:07:18

Julie Halter

However, you know, just like Nashville, for example, we just had our Gianna in Nashville. I did not know this about Nashville. It is the number one bachelorette destination city in the South. Did you know that? True.

00:18:07:19 - 00:18:09:00

Joe Reitzug

Yes, I can attest to that.

00:18:09:02 - 00:18:38:21

Julie Halter

It was there all the time in large flocks. It's also that here. I mean, I don't think we're the capital, but it's a huge, market for, you know, girls trips. Guys go. We've got, you know, the big TPC, the waste management, golf tournaments here, for example, that, the Barrett Jackson car auction that goes. I think two weeks I went to that for my first time this year.

00:18:38:23 - 00:18:51:12

Julie Halter

So there's a lot here that draws people here. And so short term rental, absolute lease. But even the long term you know in semi short right. So you know three months to 12 months.

00:18:51:14 - 00:19:14:18

Joe Reitzug

Is it hard. Is it getting harder getting licensing there. Because I know here in Portland some things are starting to change. But like out at the Oregon coast, boy it is really, really tough to get a short term rental license for a property out there. They're just not giving them out anymore, right? They're they're trying to solve their problem by saying, we're not going to allow it anymore at all.

00:19:14:20 - 00:19:29:08

Joe Reitzug

They have certain zones now in most of the cities, but no, I mean, it's just like, unless you're if you have it, it's gold, but it doesn't transfer. And if you sell the property, whoever's buying it, good luck trying to get a license.

00:19:29:10 - 00:19:35:01

Julie Halter

Right? Right. And that does create some havoc in the market for that.

00:19:35:03 - 00:19:35:21

Joe Reitzug

Does.

00:19:35:23 - 00:19:58:12

Julie Halter

I you know, I just had this conversation earlier today with a client who would like to invest. She's got Airbnbs in other states and would like to, you know, expand her portfolio here. You know, there's a risk involved if you're if you are going to invest a property with that intention. So I think it's really important for buyers to do their due diligence and very thoroughly.

00:19:58:14 - 00:20:09:05

Joe Reitzug

Yeah. Yeah. You really got to find out the ins and outs of of how a certain community handles that, or a certain city or county. You know, is going to is going to work with you on that.

00:20:09:07 - 00:20:31:02

Julie Halter

Right? You know, as people who are homeowners as well, I know that I don't want my neighborhood to be filled with short term renters. I mean, you know, you and Vrbo and that because it does change the feeling of a neighborhood if it's overrun with that. So, you know, there's two sides to it, I get it. I think that we have everyone's best interests in mind with that.

00:20:31:04 - 00:20:33:09

Joe Reitzug

Yeah. Finding that balance is critical.

00:20:33:11 - 00:20:34:08

Julie Halter

Correct.

00:20:34:10 - 00:20:52:15

Joe Reitzug

Yeah. Okay. Well we are so thankful and happy that you were able to join us. It's always great visiting with you. We have we have, one last question of all of our guest. And, we're getting a little list running for all the different areas of people that we've reviewed.

00:20:52:17 - 00:20:54:07

Julie Halter

Am I going to get Reitzug?

00:20:54:09 - 00:21:01:06

Joe Reitzug

No, not at all. In practice, we want to know your favorite restaurant in Scottsdale.

00:21:01:09 - 00:21:29:17

Julie Halter

Okay. Depends on the occasion. I have. My new favorite is called théa. It's a top restaurant, and they just it's in the Global Ambassador Hotel, which the hotel has a really big accolade that they just earned. They got a michelin rating. Yeah. Which is like getting a michelin star for your restaurant, but it's for the hotel as a whole, and it is absolutely beautiful.

00:21:29:18 - 00:21:46:01

Julie Halter

I love these it's tapas. It's great drinks, really wonderful staff. And when you sit outside they have the misters. So you stay comfortable. Nice, beautiful, unobstructed sunset view of camelback. It’s a must. It's a must.

00:21:46:03 - 00:21:47:09

Makayla Mast

That's so cool to me.

00:21:47:09 - 00:22:04:07

Joe Reitzug

That is so cool. Well, you are living the life, Miss Julie. I have to say, I am so happy for you. I've never seen you happier and I'm so happy for your success. And I know things are just going to keep on rolling for you. Makayla, did you have anything else for? For Julie?

00:22:04:12 - 00:22:08:00

Makayla Mast

I don't, but please get some sun for me today because.

00:22:08:00 - 00:22:12:00

Julie Halter

I need it. Like I said, you can come down anytime. I will say this.

00:22:12:00 - 00:22:13:15

Makayla Mast

I will take you up on that.

00:22:13:17 - 00:22:29:04

Julie Halter

You're never too old to learn lessons, right? You know, here you think? Oh, sure, I'll book that, you know, 1:00 virtual tour for an investor client in August. I find my phone. It literally fried out.

00:22:29:06 - 00:22:30:10

Joe Reitzug

Really?

00:22:30:12 - 00:22:47:19

Julie Halter

Yeah. I went through two phones this summer, and then I mistakenly thought, oh, I'll just have this best little schedule, you know, get up early and hike, and then I'll, you know, be at my desk. And then I could polish up the afternoon poolside and speak with my clients on the phone. No, you can't come this one, even if you 

00:22:47:19 - 00:22:49:07

Makayla Mast

didn't Know that was a problem.

00:22:49:09 - 00:22:54:08

Julie Halter

I learned that it is. Even if you sandwich your phone between two ice packs, it just. It overheats, so.

00:22:54:13 - 00:22:55:18

Makayla Mast

Oh my goodness.

00:22:55:19 - 00:23:00:19

Joe Reitzug

And, well, there's give and take to every area, right? We know the give and take to Portland.

00:23:00:21 - 00:23:02:13

Julie Halter

Yeah I was.

00:23:02:15 - 00:23:16:21

Joe Reitzug

Yeah. Yeah. And but maybe January February down in Phoenix might not be we might have to do a livportland field trip where we go down as a team and and just see what's going on in Scottsdale with Julie. Right.

00:23:16:23 - 00:23:19:04

Julie Halter

You should investigate that. Absolutely. I'd be.

00:23:19:06 - 00:23:20:13

Makayla Mast

Amazing.

00:23:20:15 - 00:23:29:12

Joe Reitzug

All right, Julie, thank you so much for your time. And thank you for giving us the lowdown on Scottsdale and the Phoenix area, and we look forward to visiting again soon.

00:23:29:13 - 00:23:30:18

Julie Halter

Thanks, Joe. Thanks, Makayla.

00:23:30:19 - 00:23:31:09

Makayla Mast

Thanks, Julie.

00:23:31:10 - 00:23:32:17

Joe Reitzug

Bye, everyone.

00:23:32:18 - 00:23:56:05

Makayla Mast

Thanks for joining us today. If you're interested in finding out more about Joe, myself, or the livportland team, you can go to livportland.com. Thanks for giving us a listen and see you next time on the Off the Record podcast.