Do any of the bathrooms have a tub?

Almost all homes with two bathrooms, in Arizona, one is tub with shower, and the second one is straight shower, usually the master is the one with the tub.

 

 

Is your swimming pool heated?

Almost no private pools are heated. It runs about $400 a month gas bill to heat your pool and only adds a month or two on each end.

There are a few solar heated pools that have large installations where sun heats pool water and it also adds only about a month on both ends of season.

One trick we have on a couple of houses is a pool cover, put that on at night and it keeps water warmer by a couple of degrees.   Pool temp is almost always about the same as the night time low. (from losing all of its day time heat.

So if you want to know what pool temp is expected on what date look up night time low for that date.

If we have a pool cover and you use it nightly you can add two degrees.

     I actually get lots of inquiries.....
Is the house air conditioned?

This is like asking someone in North Dakota, "does this house have heat?"
You can not live in AZ without air conditioning and almost all are central air. We have 4 homes that also have evaporative cooling in addition which I like better (Is a different method of cooling using water) and it actually costs about 2/3 less to run but it is very hard for us to explain it to and get short term people to understand how to operate and use them correctly, If you see a second set of controls or thermostat on the wall, you can ignore that one, it is shut down.

We as a matter of policy now just use the more expensive regular air conditioning even though some of our homes have a large investment in having both. The idea for locals is that the evaporation is much less expensive to run but do not cool as well during the more humid monsoon season (about a month in end of August) and people that have both use the more standard air only during the monsoon and evaporate the rest of year. That is just information in case you want to move here etc. I used evaporate year around, for years and never switched to regular air conditioning. Bill difference, about $200 plus a month during hot season.

Is it Central Air conditioning?

You may have one "add on to the house room" etc that is cooled by an individual room air conditioner, but that is rare, we only have a couple of rooms with that in our twelve homes. Both work fine and no one ever complains. Almost all rooms are central air cooled. That is standard.

We have never to my recollection ever had a complaint about air conditioning except when one quits, and it does happen. Out of twelve homes, one outage perhaps one day in one home per year, so is rare and usually fixed within a few hours.

We lose heat about one incident a year average also on all twelve homes combined and about the same basis. Most of our homes have the new high efficiency heating and cooling units because it costs us less to operate. Many of our homes have fireplaces as auxiliary back up heat source, but not for that reason.

 

Is there bugs, snakes and scorpions?

Well, actually, we do not normally have hardly any fly's or mosquitoes, rare.
Actually I have lived here off an on since 1950 and most of my friends, none of us have ever seen a scorpion. Never seen a snake here in that time, one roadrunner, in town, 2 coyotes, and one land tortoise.

There is one bug that shocks even locals since we have so few bugs. Most people have never seen them but I have run into them a few times in 57 years. They are called sewer roaches, and can appear on your living room wall out of no where, no matter where your home is. About an inch to an inch and a half long. Harm less, smash em with newspaper if you get the chance. They are fast. Most likely will never see one but they do exist. Have had one reported in 3 years in my homes so not common. Had one complaint about ants, actually I think the hot season frys most bugs, so they are not a serious problem, compared to the rest of the world, you would consider Az almost insect free.