Who Wants a Swamp Cooler in the Desert?
Sellers and buyers in Arizona’s real estate market better know these terms, but if you are buying real estate in Arizona for the first time, there’s a few definitions you need to clearly understand, before diving in to their first purchase.Free real estate booklet racks everywhere offer stacks of colorful pages of real estate in all price ranges. However, in reading your first Arizona real estate booklet, and you will find some interesting terminology, including: swamp cooler, straw bale, rainwater catchment, and burnt adobe. Now, why would you want a swamp cooler in the desert? Well, they are pretty handy during the driest, hottest months of the year. In Tucson, it gets so dry that, when newcomers step outside their first few times of high-noon heat, it takes their breath away. Dry, hot air is to the lungs much like dry, cold air is: A major shock! Swamp coolers, also called evaporative (or evap) coolers, take in the dry, hot air, and turn it into cool, moist air. What a relief! The o
