Home Buying Tips

April 19, 2009

What stays with a Spring Texas home?

Right about the time my Spring Texas home buyers are admiring how beautifully the stainless steel refrigerator matches the other the stainless steel kitchen appliances is when they will will turn to me and ask “Does the refrigerator stay with the house?”  Usually, my answer is “I am sorry but the refrigerator does not stay with the house […]
April 6, 2009

Mortgage interest rates make history

The recent announcement of the Federal Reserve’s intentions to purchase Treasury securities over the next six months has pushed mortgage interest rates down to levels so low that the rates are making history.   Rates so low that 30 year fixed home mortgages are below 5% and who would have guessed that?   Certainly not the manufacturer of Rick’s (my working partner and […]
April 3, 2009

Home Buyers Beware – what a Sellers Disclosure does not tell you!

Pursuant to Texas Property Code 5.008, sellers of residential real estate shall deliver a Seller’s Disclosure Notice to the buyer containing the minimum disclosures of the seller’s knowledge of the condition of the property.  When you are considering purchasing a Spring Texas home, a sellers disclosure is a good source of information to learn about the condition […]
March 29, 2009

10 Tips for Spring Texas first-time homebuyers

If you are thinking about becoming a Spring Texas first time homebuyer, here’s 10 tips for you: 1.  Be choosy but don’t be unrealistic. The only home that comes close to being perfect is one you design and build yourself and still later you will think of things you would have done differently. 2. Establish your […]
March 17, 2009

How to come up with a down payment for your first home

You have heard about the first time home buyer tax credit and you want to take advantage of it by purchasing your first Spring Texas home.  But there is only one small problem, 100% financed mortgage loans are no longer available and that means you need to come up with a down payment. So how […]
March 2, 2009

Top 5 Questions Realtors can’t or won’t Answer

As Realtors®, Rick and I get asked all kinds of questions from home buyers relocating to Spring Texas.  The majority of the questions we know the answer to and gladly provide an answer. But there are some questions that if we answered we could potentially be in violation of Fair Housing Laws. And there are other questions […]