This February update is a bit redundant, isn’t it?

Well, not the February update, itself. I should clarify. But isn’t it getting old to hear that we STILL don’t have enough inventory?

The take-away:

• If you want to sell, do it! You will sell quickly at top dollar, even if you don’t renovate.
  
• If you are buying, expect multiple offers. But also, don’t expect prices do come down any time soon.

Below are some excerpts from the Cromford Report, real estate market update analyst gurus. (In case you are wondering, this is a special service for realtors and we use this to give our clients an advantage in the market.)

“…the ARMLS numbers for February 1, 2021 compared with February 1, 2020 for all areas & types:

• Active Listings: 5,180 versus 11,974 last year – down 56.7% – and down 14.5% from 6,055 last month
• Pending Listings: 7,070 versus 5,969 last year – up 18.4% – and up 15.2% from 6,135 last month
• Monthly Average Sales Price per Sq. Ft.: $217.59 versus $182.18 last year – up 19.4% – and up 2.9% from $211.50 last month
• Monthly Median Sales Price: $339,000 versus $289,900 last year – up 16.9% – and up 2.1% from $332,000 last month

January is usually a very good month for new listings and overall supply tends to be stronger at the beginning of February than it was at the turn of the year.

However 2021 has been completely different. New listings arrived in the weakest flow we have ever recorded and although demand subsided a bit, it was more than strong enough to soak up almost everything sellers could offer. Instead of rising, supply collapsed another 14.5% during January.

When supply is this low, it starts to drag demand numbers down with it. Sales volumes are limited by the number of homes for sale. Although they are still much higher than January 2020, sales counts and under contract counts are not growing as fast as normal. This is probably due to a combination of factors: higher interest rates, lack of supply and affordability concerns.

Prices rose by almost 3% over the last month, so in theory demand should decline as prices increase. We will see how true that turns out to be as prices are set for extremely high rises over the next several months. The annual appreciation rate has already surpassed 19% and could easily reach 30% by the time we are well into the second quarter.

There is currently no indication that supply trends will improve and at the moment it looks like supply will drop further over the next 2 months. We would not be surprised to see demand continue to trend lower, but this will have little effect on prices. We already have far more buyers than the market can support. Our best guess is that the average price per sq. ft. will continue to rise at about 2% to 3% per month for the next several months.

If you need help navigating this market, call us at 602-456-9388.

Who knew that we’d still need to stay socially distant this month, way back when this all started? In light of that, here is short a curated list of some socially-distanced events in January that you might find useful.

Local First’s Scale UP cohort. SCALE UP stands for Sustainable Communities Accessing Lending and Expertise Upon Performance. It is a program that offers a comprehensive seven-week workshop series for locally-owned and operated independent businesses in Arizona. Sponsored by the State of Arizona, SCALE UP cohorts in 2020 are virtual and offered to businesses statewide. Each cohort offers the unique opportunity for businesses to go from education and collaboration to planning, financing, benchmarking and implementation — all in one accessible package.  A cohort of 10-15 businesses will participate in 1-2 hour workshops weekly on Tuesdays at 6 pm. Cohort 3 will begin on Tuesday, January 12th and go until Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021. Sign up at this link.

Urban Farm is on Rosie on the House. In the Rosie on the House radio show, there is a dedicated hour for questions and answers about growing food in the local desert. On the fourth Saturday of each month, Farmer Greg will talk about all aspects of gardening and urban farming in the Arizona climates. Learn more here.

Learn about Land Trusts. Local First Arizona his hosting a webinar with Liz Petterson, Executive Director of the Arizona Land & Water Trust, to learn how land trusts function and how they assist in keeping open space open. You’ll hear how they work with landowners, help develop local and community conservation plans and how they protect desert rivers and streams. This webinar is an educational initiative of the Coalition for Farmland Preservation, a program dedicated to preserving farmland in Maricopa County and beyond. It is free to attend and open to all. More here.

Dog days at the Botanical Gardens. Early risers are invited to bring their whole pack to stroll the garden’s trails on Saturday mornings. You and your pup will have a tail-wagging good time exploring all the beauty and sniffs of the garden. The Garden Shop welcomes dogs during your visit and the Patio Café will open at 8 a.m. offering a light menu. See more here.

Ansel Adams at the Phoenix Art Museum. This display explores how the 20th-century’s foremost American photographer often created multiple interpretations of a single image to express his creative vision. Located in Norton Photography Gallery. This recurs daily at 10am from January 11th through June 6th. More here.

Annie Water Solo Exhibition. Until January 10th you can still catch “Thoughts in Passing” showcasing the works of artist Annie Waters at FOUND:RE. Through her art, Waters invites viewers to observe the cycle of life through the lens of botanical studies paired with various portraits of loved ones, acquaintances, and imagined historical figures. See more here.

Donna Reiner, a local historian and a good friend of Get Your PHX, has written many articles over the years for the Arizona Republic and others about Phoenix history and memorials. This month, she tells us how the decision was made to line Central Ave with palm trees.

We use her services when we list properties of historic significance to help us tell the stories behind the homes.

We are happy that Donna is allowing us to re-publish some of her articles on a monthly basis. If you or your business ever needs a historian, let Donna know at laydeescholar “at” hotmail.com.

If one were able to safely stand in the middle of the Central Avenue and McDowell Road intersection and look north, two distinct characteristics would stand out. One, the street is straight, long and multi-laned. Two, uniform trees line both sides at least as far as the eye can discern. These elements help define a boulevard streetscape.

As early as 1895, Phoenicians planned to have trees line this section of Central Avenue. Originally ash trees were selected for their ability to grow quickly and provide a shady canopy. This concept blended in with the Garden City and the City Beautiful Movements which highly influenced Phoenix in the 1920s, but by then, the trees were different.

Dwight B. Heard and his partners can be credited for the change in tree type, for when the Los Olivos subdivision began circa 1906, they decided that stately palms trees would be planted on both sides of Central from McDowell Road to Encanto Boulevard. For those who might be curious, they are the Washingtona filifera, or California fan palm which is native to the Southwest.

Over the years, other developers continued the practice of planting palms to Camelback Road, but only in sections. So, while the image of Central Avenue has for years been with towering palms, what may be most interesting is they keep moving. What? Yes! Every time Central Avenue has been widened, the trees have been removed and transplanted. We’re lucky that can be done with palms much easier than with other types of trees.

In 1948, Central Avenue was widened from 39’ to 64” (four lanes and two parking strips). The palms were carefully removed, temporarily stored, and then replanted. In late 1951, a zoning case began which would change the zoning along Central Avenue from McDowell to Earll from residential (apartments) to commercial. For a variety of reasons, this case was eventually withdrawn, but it did raise the hackles of a number of people and some concerns of how to make accommodations to preserve the line of palm trees.

Phoenicians were protective of these palm trees even then. There was even some talk and action to create a “Wilshire Boulevard” feel along Central from Thomas Road north prior to the completion of Park Central Mall in 1956. Gruen Associates filed a report in 1989 suggesting that this boulevard image along Central Avenue should go at least to Camelback Road.

When the Light Rail project got closer to actually beginning, again the palms created a “problem.” Most people loudly objected to their destruction and/or removal. Move them, but replant them along Central! After all, this was now an historic streetscape even if it did not have the official designation.

Donna Reiner is the co-author of three books on Phoenix history.

For this January Market Update we are watching and hoping that more people put more listings on the market.

Heck, we could see twice as many listings out in the January market as there are now and I doubt prices would drop. They might flatten, but at sellers would still have a huge advantage.

Before I share the numbers lemme just kvetch for a moment.

Our buyers are fighting right now, not only against the short supply, but also with terrible flips. In once case, our client made a full priced offer on a home that looked good when he made the offer. The inspection resulted in a sizable, but not unthinkable list of things that the seller could repair. The owner/agent could have done it for less than $5,000 on a $350,000 sale.

The owner/agent responded with a paltry list of items he would repair because he knows somebody else will come along and may not even ask for repairs.

We had to advise our client to back out, since we saw that the agent’s approach was a red flag. He did not even get a permit for a very small thing, and the only thing that he needed to get a permit for, a water heater replacement. If he was like this on what we found, what else could be out there?

The moral of the story is to be aware of flippers right now. Be cautious and inspect everything. In the case of this one, it was particularly sad to see an agent who flipped this property and was willing to skip important details like that. We only hope that he disclosed all of the problems that our client’s inspector discovered and reported to the him. If not, he could be in deep, deep trouble –both as a seller and as an agent.

And be particularly cautious of those ibuyer companies that promise you a discount commission. Watch my short video here on how that system is manipulated to make them lots of money while delivering a terrible product to the next buyer.

Any-who, back to the January Market Update. Our friends at the Cromford Report are predicting continued tight supply and high prices through 2021.

Some highlights:

• Active Listings: 6,055 versus 12,141 last year – down 50.1% – and down 18.0% from 7,388 last month
• Monthly Sales: 9,989 versus 7,788 last year – up 28.3% – and up 8.9% from 9,175 last month
• Monthly Average Sales Price per Sq. Ft.: $211.62 versus $179.97 last year – up 17.6% – and up 1.8% from $207.84 last month
• Monthly Median Sales Price: $332,000 versus $289,500 last year – up 14.7% – and up 0.6% from $330,000 last month

It is interesting, isn’t it, that the number of monthly sales is similar to last year, but the number of listings is cut in half. That tells us that somebody is buying homes every month, but that so many more are not.

To continue from Cromford:

“Buyers cannot be blamed if they in despair about the lack of supply. We have less than half the number of active listings without a contract that we had a year ago. This time last year we described the lack of supply as shocking, so what do we call the current situation? We actually saw more new listings arrive during 2020 than we did during 2019, but only 1.4% more. The annual sales rate increased by 6% so the extra supply proved thoroughly inadequate in the face of the demand.

Prices have accelerated due to the huge imbalance between supply and demand, but as yet we have only seen part of that reaction. Sales prices are a trailing indicator and lag behind the leading indicators by up to 15 months. We can therefore expect to see prices move even higher during the next 12 to 15 months with appreciation rates possibly rising over 20%.

Those who think the increases in mortgage delinquency are going to to halt these rise are wishful thinking. The level of delinquency is nothing like as bad as it was during the 2006 to 2008 crisis and the level of delinquency has improved for the last 6 consecutive months. Any extra supply coming onto the market, due to home owner financial distress, is likely to be snatched up quickly by desperate buyers. Few of the homes with delinquent loans are likely to make it to foreclosure. They can be quickly sold prior to foreclosure to pay off any loans and the record levels of home equity will leave the vast majority of sellers in the black even if they can no longer afford their mortgage payment. It is the strong home equity levels that will motivate distressed buyers to sell up rather than walk away. In 2007 prices started to crumble due to huge excess supply, meaning many homes went underwater quickly and homeowners could see no advantage from avoiding foreclosure. The current situation is opposite, not similar.

January is usually the strongest month of the year for new listings… Therefore if we are going to see any relief for buyers, it should arrive during the next 4 weeks. If it does not, then the peak selling season of February through May is likely to be limited by what little is available. This may put a cap on any growth in unit sales, but it will not put much restraint on dollar volume as prices rise to compensate.

If you are getting ready to navigate the real estate market, give us a call a 602-456-9388 and we will help.

As we watch the Covid numbers spiking again, it is even more difficult to find a December event to keep you in the holiday spirit. Here are some of my personal favorites.

Here are a few items that you might enjoy, in addition to Phoestivus on line, of course.

Japanese Friendship Garden – Illumination Garden Lights. The already-beautiful Japanese Friendship Garden is lit up every Tuesday through Sunday from 6:30 to 9pm for $15 per person. It’s one of the December events that people often skip, but should not. I enjoy this one, particularly, because it is walking distance from a few nice restaurants. So, you can make the whole dine and walk experience.

Los Noches de las Luminarias – Phoenix Botanical Garden. I go to this December event almost every year and I particularly like to take people from out of town. It’s a two-fer. You get to see the amazing light displays and also learn about the unique desert plants that you can only find here. Add a three-fer by getting there at sunset. Dec. 11-13, 17 – 23, 26 – 31. Be sure to look at their website for more information about their Covid adaptations. In some cases they won’t have live music as they have in the past, but they will still have most of the things you enjoy.

Zoolights – Phoenix Zoo. You can either walk or drive through the zoo lights experience this year. The still have food treats, as they have in the past. So, you won’t be left out in the zoo alone with no sustenance. You have a little more time on this one, if you need to prioritize. This is daily 5:30 to 10:30 through January 31st.

Holiday Lights – Salt River Fields. This is a 1.2 mile drive-through with over 5 million lights and music. You can tune in to their music through your car radio, too.

We have some more ideas for you on the little graphic below.

Enjoy your December and your holidays. It is a particularly important year to stay close while staying distanced.

And, please always remember that we appreciate your referrals and will make a contribution to your favorite charity when your referral closes escrow.

I’ve been a reform-minded guy for a long time, in addition to being a realtor. Over the years, I’ve written about necessary political reforms that impact you as a home owner. These following four reforms are pretty crucial to healing our democracy.

As we start 2021 (hopefully fresh), we need to take a deeper look at reforms.

You can’t have good outcomes if your voting system is a mess. Our is.

The system intentionally discourages participation (at least in Arizona), even as individuals work to bring out more voters. The system creates a feeling among voters that their votes don’t count. I excludes many people.

Setting aside lies about voter fraud in America and the many laws in place that are nothing other than voter suppression, I put together these four reforms that politicians will never get behind, but which could dramatically improve our democracy if regular people like you step up and make it happen.

I’ll summarize here, with links so you can dig in a little, if you are so inclined. These four reforms address specific and inter-related issues around corruption, fair representation, finding common ground.

1. Lobbying Reform

We don’t like lobbyists. They seem so sketchy. However, lobbying is protected in the first amendment as your right to “petition the government for the redress of grievances.” So, we can’t outlaw lobbying.

What you call a “bad lobbyist” may be my “protector of freedoms.”

However, nothing in the Constitution says we can’t restrict how much money lobbyists or the companies that employ them can give to elected officials as campaign contributions. In fact, I discovered when I was in office that there is clear legal precedence from Wall Street for dramatically restricting how much money lobbyists can contribute to politicians.

In other words, lobby all you want, but you need to win on the argument, not on the weight of stack of dollars you hand over.

In the 1940’s the investment industry restricted how much individuals can give to politicians because they did not want undue influence to corrupt the market, particularly the municipal bond market.

Why can’t this same reasoning about conflict of interest be applied to the lobbying industry?

Have a look at my piece laying out that argument here.

2. Ranked Choice Voting

Ranked Choice Voting, or “RCV” is all the rage. Conservative-leaning Alaska just passed an initiative to vote using this system and the more moderate-leaning Maine did in 2018.

It is an intuitive system, especially once you try it.

In short, it allows you to vote for the candidates in the order you’d like to see them win.

In our state, with a very independent and “maverick” tradition, RCV is perfect and would result in candidates who have to appeal beyond their extreme base, either right or left.

In other words, the political parties will fight it.

This reform would result in a legislature that is more likely to find common ground and laws that work for more people.

Have a look at this article, which describes how it works and introduces you to a group in Arizona that is organizing toward the reform.

3. Independent Redistricting

Redistricting informs everything, but the public knows the least about the process. Further, in many states the elected officials draw their own lines.

And, while Arizona created an independent redistricting commission in 2000, both parties have over the years discovered ways to manipulate the process.

We are in a position now that I predicted years ago –the governor has rigged the system of appointing the next commission to favor his party.

I don’t care which party it is, that is wrong.

Our commission is made up of 5 members, 2 Dems, 2 Republicans and 1 independent. That creates a terrible situation in which both parties try to put a phony independent in that seat.

I hate to be the guy who said, “I told you so”, but we could have fixed this years ago.

We need to have a commission made up of 9 members: 3 Dems, 3 Republicans and 3 Independents. We need to remove the power that the governor has over vetting commissioners and we need to allow the commission to make a greater number of competitive districts so that we all have actual choices in our elections.

See this piece on some efforts in early 2020 that would have undermined the Voting Rights Act in Arizona redistricting

4. Dark Money

People have been mis-using the term “dark money” to mean “money that my political enemies use to influence the election.”

Dark money is actually something very specific. It is money that corporations (read “companies, unions, charities, uber-wealthy or political non-profits”) can use to influence the election without disclosing who is behind it.

In other words, they can spend incredible amounts of money to lie or mislead people and we don’t know who’s doing the lying.

And the reality is that both parties have become addicted to dark money.

Why is this a problem? Proponents say it’s our 1st amendment right to spend as much money as we want on elections, right?

That is true. Kinda.

The amounts are unlimited and can come from corporations (per a Supreme Court ruling called Citizen’s United v. FEC), but disclosure can still happen –even though few states or the federal government require it.

Even the very conservative Justice Scalia, while ruling that the amount of money corporations spend should be unlimited, was very clear that we have the right to force disclosure of who is behind those expenditures.

He said, “(r)equiring people to stand up in public for their political acts fosters civic courage, without which democracy is doomed. For my part, I do not look forward to a society which, thanks to the Supreme Court, campaigns anonymously . . . hidden from public scrutiny and protected from the accountability of criticism. This does not resemble the Home of the Brave.“

In Arizona, former Attorney General Terry Goddard has pointed the way to how we can create this disclosure, via a couple ballot measure attempts. He has just missed the mark, in part because of GOP roadblocks to the citizen initiative process and in part because Democratic-leaning groups are equally addicted to dark money and resisted his efforts.

You can read about that a little here, but unfortunately the Outlaw Dirty Money website is down as they decide whether to try to run another initiative in 2022.

Without reforms like these four, we are going to find ourselves continuing the our path toward less democracy and more corruption.

Meet “ranked choice voting”, a form of voting that is difficult to explain but refreshingly intuitive, once you try it.

Actually. Lemme rephrase that. It’s not difficult to explain. But, it takes more time to explain than the 30 seconds allotted in our Twitter feed quick consumption media landscape.

But not much longer.

Furthermore, it holds a key to how our American democratic experiment might survive.

Ask people who have used the system and they immediately get it. It is an experience thing.

Here. I’ll explain it.

Ready?

You rank the candidates in the order you want to see them win.

Tadaaaaah!

I really like how this video explains the concept and how the votes are counted.

There are huge benefits to that. In our current “winner take all” system, you may have a majority of people who are unhappy with the winner because the vote was so divided that the winner had less than 50% of the vote, or a plurality.

Or, as we all know, we get divided in to political camps that are dominated by the extremes in each camp. You know, the thing that our founding fathers did not want to happen.

Did I mention that ranked choice voting, or “RCV” eliminates the primary election? That is why it is also referred to as an “instant run-off election.”

Imagine the cost savings and seeing fewer campaign signs since there would no longer be a primary and a general election.

Further, RCV creates a system where candidates have to do reach out beyond their base voters, since they are running against everybody else.

This is not an academic discussion for me. I was honored to work on an RCV election in Australia in 2006. I saw how simple it was. But, more importantly, the people there were less wedded to their parties, to their tribes. There were more parties, as a result –and more ideas.

If their #1 choice did not get in, then their #2 might have, so they were less likely to be dissatisfied and they felt that the system offered them more.

Less tribalism, more finding common ground, saving money on elections. Who doesn’t wan’t that? RCV just passed in Alaska and it has been in effect in Maine for one election.

Alaska, BTW, is a very conservative state and Maine is more liberal. In Australia, the conservatives win just as often as the liberals.

So, in case you are thinking that RCV favors one party over another, it does not.

There is an effort in Arizona to bring this to our state. It is a hard uphill battle, since neither political party wants it. They know that it will dilute their power.

But, I’m an American first and my party comes second. I hope you feel the same way.

Donna Reiner, a local historian and a good friend of Get Your PHX, has written many articles over the years for the Arizona Republic and others about Phoenix history and memorials. This month, she tells us about the few times that it snowed in Phoenix, as the city first began to grow.

We use her services when we list properties of historic significance to help us tell the stories behind the homes.

We are happy that Donna is allowing us to re-publish some of her articles on a monthly basis. If you or your business ever needs a historian, let Donna know at laydeescholar “at” hotmail.com.

Let it snow, let it snow. Yes, it’s winter and in true Phoenix fashion, we wait for the snow…..to fall and pile up in the mountains. Many of us like to play in it and others want it to snow for its benefits to the watershed.

After recently spending ten days in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the geographic center of North America, I became acquainted with huge mounds of snow, grey days, and very, very cold temperatures. For this Phoenician, snow is best in the mountains so one can ski or sled. Fortunately, it infrequently happens here.

Picture this at noon, November 19, 1919. You are downtown and walk outside. You see strange flakes falling from the sky and they are not soot. Our local weatherman attested that snow fell in Phoenix that day and time. Yes, in November at noon and a whole .1 inch! Ok, it was not normal. In fact, that was the earliest it had snowed in Phoenix since the US Weather Station had been established here. (It had snowed .2 inches in March 1917, but it melted far too quickly to be any fun.)

It snowed or flurried, enough to count, again the following year, but nothing significant until January 1933. Drumroll….it actually snowed for nearly two hours on the evening of January 20th and the weather bureau reported 1 inch. Too bad the temperature rose and the precipitation turned to rain and destroyed the snow.

Four years later almost to the day, it snowed again in Phoenix. But this time during the day and that 1 inch of white fluffy stuff stuck for several hours so children and adults had fun making snowmen and having snowball fights. Great fun for all the desert dwellers who were not used to such weather. If you lived further out from town, you might have experienced up to four inches.

And looking back over the past 82 years, those two instances, 1933 and 1937, have been Phoenix’s heaviest recorded snowfall. A half-inch or less or flurries, while recorded by the weather bureau, are not much to brag about to friends and relatives.

If it snows now at the end of January (not necessarily within our city limits or where it can be officially recorded), there is a clear reason as explained by my son. “Mom, it’s the Waste Management (Phoenix) Open.”

The December Market Update shows the supply problem getting worse. There are only 7,388 listings available in this market, versus 13,869 last year – down 46.7% – and down 14.9% from 8,682 last month.

People continue to ask whether this December market condition is due to Covid. Perhaps. But, I think there are a lot of reasons. I’ve felt for a long time that this problem dates back to the Great Recession. Individuals and corporations starting in about 2009 were buying properties, sometimes 100 at a time, to turn in to rentals. Then, over the past 10 years, people and corporations bought more homes to turn in to short term rentals.

In addition, as prices went up, people who might have wanted to sell and then buy a new home felt they could not afford the move.

In all, these have created a perfect storm in which homes that typically cycle on and off market about every 7-10 years are not.

Here’s what our friends at the Cromford Report have to say about the December market.

“The supply situation has gone from bad to worse with many areas hitting record lows for the number of homes available to buy. This is not because of a low number of new listings. The flow of new listings was respectable in November and exceeded the total for November 2019 and 2018. However, it increased by far less than the annual increase in demand and many of these new listings went under contract within days of listing. We exited November with 15% fewer homes for sale than we entered it. We have run out of adjectives to describe the weakness of the supply situation. It looks almost certain that supply will collapse further during December, so if we had a good adjective we would need a better one for January 3. Demand is extraordinarily strong for this late in the season, so we currently have a market that is more unbalanced (in favor of sellers) than we have ever seen before, even at the height of the 2005 bubble. But next month will be be even more extreme.

There seems to be a certain amount of denial in some quarters. Concerns about delinquency rates and forbearance are being widely discussed. The idea is often expressed that this can reverse the current situation, as if this is a foregone conclusion. We do not think the level of delinquency is anything like high enough to seriously disrupt the housing market. For such drama you probably need to look to the commercial real estate market, particularly the retail, office and hotel sectors. Housing has been bolstered by the pandemic. This is a worldwide phenomenon, not confined to Arizona or even the USA. At times of medical emergency, people really value their homes across the globe.

We would agree that a market cannot keep getting hotter forever, but according to Black Knight Financial Services, the level of delinquency has fallen for the last 5 months. Pre-payment activity is the highest since 2004. It is likely that we will see more distressed sales in 2021 than 2020, but 2020 was a record all-time low and reverting to normal would help a bit with the supply situation. In fact we would have to see a colossal increase in delinquency from current levels just to get back to normal supply conditions.”

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Phoestivus is happening, virtually.

We are following the advice of the CDC and scientists and have opted not to create a super spreader event in the heart of downtown Phoenix.

In light of all that, we are highlighting all our vendors on line for the entire month of December, with the help of Local First’s Shop Local platform, coming soon.

We are taking applications at the Phoestivus website for vendors. You need to be locally-owned, you need to create your own goods for sale and you need to fill out the application. We prefer if you are also a member of Local First, as they will ask you to be one if you want to sell through their website.

Unlike in past years when the Phoestivus Market has been a fundraiser for the Downtown Phoenix Farmer’s Market, this year we are devoting all of our energy to just help those amazing local vendors to survive and thrive.

We’ve always found that adverse circumstances often lead to new and creative ideas. We expect many to come out of this experience.

So, please follow Phoestivus on Instagram, where you will soon see announcements for the many amazing vendors that we have lined up for you.

In the end, we know that Phoestivus is unique. You could buy something from Amazon, and just make its CEO even more absurdly wealthy than he already is. Or, you could be part of an experience, a community and a feeling of unity.

You’ve always been amazing in how you support our community while you have fun doing it.

So, stick with us. There is more to come!