Six months ago this house would have sold in less than thirty minutes as everything put on the Phoenix real estate market was snatched up within minutes of listing – not anymore. The boom is over and house prices are slowly starting to return to normal. This home though is slowly being taken over by vandalism as it sits empty. Allowing it to be gutted and having to spend the thirty-thousand to remove it would be a waste of money as this house is not that far from ‘The Square’. The square as it is known is an area stretching from Cave Creek Road to 32nd Street and Bell Road to Greenway Parkway and is the highest crime area in our state of Arizona. Welcome to the future of all those areas of Phoenix where people with the means are baling out of older homes and moving further and further away into the disappearing desert and the growing McMansion neighborhoods behind gates and walls.