The Housechick Blog

Number Six in our series of Top Ten things to know about Tucson Real Estate:

Things You Are Unlikely to Find In Tucson Homes

• Basements: walkout, unfinished, or otherwise.
• Attics
• Lawns - okay, some lawns exist, but you’ve got to work hard for it!
• Storm windows
• Mud Rooms
• Three season porches
• Wooden Decks
• Steam and Oil Heaters
• Radiators
•  Vinyl and Aluminum Siding, for the most part.
• Ocean views or lakefront property
• Mello Roos
• Snow blowers and lawn mowers
• Shake shingle roofs
• Unfenced yards, at least for the average home
• Radon detectors
• Real hardwood floors - tile is easier to install over our typical concrete slab foundations
• I’m tempted to include “Florida Room,” but I think that’s an Arizona Room in disguise…

There are exceptions, of course.  A basement here and there, mostly in the historic districts around downtown and the University.  A neighborhood known for it’s green lawns, a shake roof occasionally. 

We do have other nice things: covered patios, tile roofs, gas heat and central A/C, lovely wire cut double red brick construction, adobe, dual pane windows, mountains, cactus, sunsets, all sorts of stuff.  Don’t worry, I can introduce it all to you!

Photos courtesy of lars hammar, via Flickr