be the center of attention at your next cocktail party in the tucson foothills

don't get bogged down in all that drab talk about slower home sales and falling prices,  and woe is me ...
perk things up with some fast foothills facts that I guarantee no one knows (and no one cares about, but after a few drinks you'll have 'em all in the palm of your hand)

of the 577 homes for sale in the Tucson Foothills,
guess how many are,

in a gated community - 234
in School District 16 - 341
in TUSD - 118
in Amphi - 118
on a golf course - 38
masonry construction - 193
frame stucco construction - 344
metal, combo or other construction - 39
in an adult community - 2 are listed as, but they're not 
1 story - 436
2 or more stories - 141
connected to the sewer - 422
on septic - 129
on other - 1 (outhouse maybe?)
on nothing - 2 (here's why it's a good idea to make sure the toilets actually flush) 
on city water - 544
on a well - 5 
that leaves 28 with no water (look at the bright side, your icemaker will last forever, and there's always bottled) 
in a flood zone - 3
sante fe style - 36
territorial - 78
ranch - 60
mediterranean - 62
spanish - 18
southwestern - 91
contemporary - 191
colonial - 0 (sorry, you diehard midwesterners)
other - 15
1 bedroom - 1
2 bedrooms - 46
3 bedrooms - 192
4 bedrooms - 239
5 bedrooms - 83
6 bedrooms - 13
7 bedrooms - 1
8 bedrooms - 0
9 bedrooms - 1

how many have,

a basement - 15 (for you diehard midwesterners)
air conditioning - all 577 (we know what's important)
a pool - 318, ditto
RV parking garage - 6
horses allowed - 34
horse facilities - 1
a roof - all 577, ditto ditto

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Comments

[rebecca]

haha fun. maybe it's a composting toilet? something i like about some of the new construction downtown (like armory park) is 'green construction'. less water and zero or near-zero energy consumption. the lego-land look of some of that type of development wouldn't look good in the foothills (except maybe along the river walk explosion). but unfortunately we see too much of the opposite in new construction in the foothills -- giant piles with ridiculously high ceilings, poorly insulated, wasted space, many water features, pools, water-loving plantings, ... i think the only # left out that i'm curious about is the # of 'new construction' homes?

[John Schneider]

rebecca, lots of giant piles, 'look, over there, a space ship has landed on hacienda del sol'
an accurate count of the # of new construction homes is tough to come by because many (most even) of the new construction homes are not listed as single family new construction, they're just listed as single family res. so one (please, not me) would have to go thru all 577 or however many there are, listings and pick out the new construction, one by one.

[rebecca]

figures. the # of 'contemporary' clues you in a little since most new construction happen to be contemporary. and since you bring it up -- what the heck is happening to hacienda del sol?! that used to be one of the nicest roads to drive up. now it looks like eleven hundred arches -- put a mcdonald's up there and it will be 11 billion served!

[John Schneider]

# of contemporary, remember that that figure includes new & existing, so who knows - aside from which the style designation, contemporary, sw'ern, etc, is subject to the agent/owners interpretation. it's sadder still when you realize that
11 arches was originally built on 200 hundred acres. see> http://thetucsonfoothills.typepad.com/thetucsonfoothills/2007/05/tucson_foothill.html

-down toward the end I get to 11 arches,