Tag Your Dog

Even though you call it home, your apartment will be a new, wondrous place for your dog. It’s easy to get disoriented, and even the best pet owners can lose track of their best friend. It’s not uncommon for lost pets to be returned quickly, but that can only happen if your dog wears tags. You can go the extra mile and get your dog chipped, too. If they happen to make it off of the apartment community grounds, you’ll still be able to find and retrieve them.

How Long Are You Away?

It’s important for any dog owner to know how much they’ll be away from home, but it’s doubly important at an apartment. Our apartment community is a great place for pets to socialize with each other with easy access to a dog park. But when a dog is too isolated, it can lead to bad social skills and aggressive behavior.

You can overcome this by hiring a dog walker, using doggy daycare or having a second pet. You just need to have a good plan before you dive into dog ownership.

Training is Good

Your dog wants to make you happy. One of the best ways to help them do that is to set clear rules and boundaries. If you’re calm, patient, and consistent, they’ll quickly learn right from wrong and life will be good. Just remember that training has to start from day one. When you change the rules for your dog, they get confused. Likewise, training never really stops. If it was wrong once, it has to be wrong every time. Most importantly, positive reinforcement works best. Reward them for good behavior and they’ll be excited to follow the rules.

The best way to get a feel for our apartments in Flagstaff is to visit. Call today and schedule a tour of our apartment community!

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Fitness Tips for a Healthier You

Use the Park as a Gym

Warm mornings can be a terrific opportunity to trek over to a park and make use of fitness items already in place. Those fun monkey bars can be an outstanding place to get in your back and arm-strengthening chin-ups. Or, bring a yoga mat or towel and do some fitness moves on the grass!

Community Cardio

Building a healthier you doesn’t have to be a solo project. Many people find that a little fitness camaraderie can go a long way. Consider organizing a walking group that meets at regularly scheduled times. Along with assembling a group of friends, it’s also important to consider similar fitness goals and conditioning. When everyone is on the same page in terms of pace and distance, the activity can be a pleasant fitness excursion.

Squeeze in Your Workouts at Home

There all kinds of gadgets and videos you can purchase to help you achieve the ultimate six-pack abs. But for those of us who are not necessarily "workout warriors," light exercise can usher in reasonably taut abs. Consider doing leg raises off the edge of a sturdy futon or sofa. Just extend your legs and feet straight out; then pull them back steadily while exhaling.

This pseudo-abdominal crunch can do wonders. Start off with a few sets of a reasonable number of repetitions and increase at your own pace. One of the wonderful aspects of this ab exercise is that it can be done in the privacy of your living room.

Take the Plank Challenge

One of the fitness activities that has been trending is planking. The exercise requires only a clear floor space and some determination. Place your elbows on the floor bent at 90 degrees and assume a push-up posture. The key is to hold yourself in a straight line. See how long you last and build up core strength as you improve your planking stamina.

We hope our Country Club Vista community members enjoy health and fitness tips. If you or a friend would like more information about our Flagstaff apartments, call us today.

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Tips for Hosting a Game Night

Fun-Friendly Foods

Finger foods are the perfect choice for a game night event. They allow people to graze as the night progresses and as their hunger requires. You can set up a buffet-style area in your kitchen to allow guests to serve themselves. You might even consider ordering a couple of pizzas (depending on the number of guests you’re hosting) to feed your horde of hungry gamers and supplement your selection of finger foods.

Clean and Clear Surface for Game Boards and Pieces

One of the biggest complaints about game night fun is having to wait to set things up until a space has been cleared for gaming. Make sure your playing surface is ready to go when your guests arrive. If you know which game you’re planning to play, go ahead and have the board set up and pieces in place to save time and get the fun started.

Sufficient Seating for All Your Guests

Try to get a head count ahead of time for the total number of people attending and any “plus ones” they may be bringing along. This not only helps you determine how much food to prepare but also how much seating you’ll need to accommodate all your guests.

Make Rules Known

If your gathering is coming together for a specific game, consider printing little reminders about the rules or “procedures” of the game to help the players understand the rules and explain the game play mechanics.

Contact us today to learn about apartments in Flagstaff, and make sure you find an apartment that nicely accommodates your game night plans.

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How to Organize a Kitchen Pantry

1. Invest in a Label Maker

Keep a label maker in your kitchen for a more organized pantry. Whenever you store things in empty jars and bottles, make a label that will enable you to quickly identify the ingredients. Yes, you could handwrite labels, but the label maker ensures the writing is always easy to read.

2. Organize According to Size

Taller items should always be stored at the back of your kitchen pantry. Shorter items can go in front. This allows you to have several rows of items while still be able to see everything you have in your pantry.

3. Keep Canned Goods Together

Canned goods store very well on top of each other. For this reason, keep all your canned items together on one shelf. However, you should organize the canned goods according to use and ingredients. For instance, condensed milk should be with the canned pureed pumpkin, not with the canned soup.

4. Hang an Erasable Board

Hang a chalkboard or whiteboard next to your kitchen pantry to keep track of items you’re running low on. This way you’ll never be out of an essential ingredient for a recipe you want to make. 

5. Store Less-Used Items 

Less-used items like turkey roasting pans or stock pots either up high or down low. This will keep all the eye-level shelves available for the items you use most often. 

6. Install a Push Button Light

Inexpensive push button lights at each shelf will help you to see items inside your kitchen pantry. These lights can easily adhere to pantry walls or below the shelf above. 

These five kitchen pantry storage ideas will help make your Flagstaff, AZ apartments even more of a joy to cook in. To see the kitchen pantries in person, please contact us today.

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4 Ways to Get the Most Out of Apartment Life

1. Use the Swimming Pool

It’s a wonderful treat to be able to go for a swim any time you want to. In Flagstaff, the temperatures are warm enough to enjoy the swimming most of the year. The pool is a gathering place where everyone will go to relax or spend time with friends. The swimming pool offers not only a way to cool off, but also to meet your apartment home neighbors.

2. Utilize the Fitness Center

Having an on-site fitness center in your Flagstaff apartments complex is a huge benefit. For one thing, you’ll be able to get your workout in even when the weather is inclement. For another, you’ll be able to save a bundle because you won’t have to purchase a gym membership at some facility far away. Double win!

3. Engage in Resident Events

The management at your apartments in Flagstaff go out of their way to organize resident events. These events provide an easy way to meet neighbors who you might not see otherwise. Making social connections adds to the enjoyment of life overall, and it’s even better when you know your new friends live close by!

4. Visit the Playground

If you have youngsters, the playground facilities offer the chance to get kids outside in the fresh air and sunshine. You’ll be able to give your kids the opportunity to enhance their social skills while meeting fellow parents yourself. You never know if you might meet someone with whom you can share babysitting favors!

When you live in Flagstaff apartments, there are so many tremendous amenities to avail yourself of. Why not contact us today to find out all the benefits you can get from living here? We look forward to meeting you!

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Looking to bring a little spring into your apartment this season? If so, consider these tips and tricks for decorating and styling your Flagstaff, AZ apartment.

Add Flowers, Of Course!

Nothing says spring quite like freshly bloomed flowers. Consider purchasing a few springy hued flowers at your local farmer’s market, or even buy some at the grocery store! These are always a great addition to any home.

Add Some Spring Scents Into the Mix

If you are used to having candles and home scents in your apartment, consider some specifically springy smells. Fresh flowers, herbs, and other spring smells are always available at home goods stores.

Try Plants

If you don’t like the thought of flowers dying on you, there are numerous different types of plants to choose from, too! You might also consider herbs so that you can use them in your kitchen as well.

Put Some New Pictures on Your Walls—or Art!

Springtime is the time for change, so why not change the things that you have on your walls? If you have pictures of your family on your walls or things you don’t want to alter, consider simply changing out the frames for new ones. You be surprised at how much this makes a difference in the look and feel if your home during spring.

Get Rid of Clutter

Finally, this isn’t a design element as much as it is an organizational tip. Consider getting rid of all of those cluttered items that you never use in your home. Donate them or give them to a friend so they’re still being used.

Spring Forward This Season by Renting a New Apartment!

Looking to explore the Flagstaff apartments currently available? Find a new place to call home and decorate in the exact style you prefer. Country Club Vista has numerous floor plans available, and our complex comes with a myriad of desirable amenities as well.

To see which floor plans we currently have available, contact us today!

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As the holidays draw friends and relatives near to us at Country Club Vista, our friendly Flagstaff apartment community, planning can get hectic. Sometimes, a little quiet time is essential. We're fortunate to have 3,000+ nearby acres of preserved open space to refresh us, courtesy of Flagstaff's Open Space Program. 

And Country Club Vista has our own quiet, comfortable spaces to unwind and shake the stress off!

Four Soul-Refreshing Places  

1. Have you ever listened to the songbirds at Picture Canyon Natural and Cultural Preserve in northeast Flagstaff? It's free. And it's open all year. Bring your walking boots, a camera, and a leave-no-trace spirit.

2. No cars or motor vehicles are permitted at the Observatory Mesa Natural Area, so it's a perfect meditation spot. It's always open to the public, and the sounds of nature and crisp autumn leaves will soothe your soul.

3. Escape the city hubbub for an extended walk along McMillan Mesa. Stroll along the east rim of the mesa going south to enjoy sweet views over East Flagstaff. You'll find park benches inviting you to sit down and take in the serenity of the mesa.

What a great spot for seeing animals in their native habitat! Watch for deer. Listen to the many birds.

4. Our own Clubhouse is a peaceful space to work, study, or meditate when a change of surroundings fits the bill, without leaving home.

And have you visited the Business Center lately? It's welcoming yet private.

Yet another very popular hangout option in our community is the private patio or balcony gracing each of our apartment homes, offering a little meditative haven just outside our doors.

Discover What Our Flagstaff Apartments Have to Offer

Our laid-back common areas and the open space around us defines Country Club Vista's quality of life. If you're looking for a gentle spot to call home, contact Country Club Vista at (844) 825-5017. 

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