Home Buying Tips

North, South, East, or West which direction of a house’s front door is best for resale?  The answer depends upon geography and ethnic break down. In Spring Texas, we average 207 days of sunshine in a year which is a lot of sunshine. The high quantity of sunshine days, its intensity, coupled with buyers desires for low utility […]

A Spring Texas house listed for sale at $300,000 also available for rent at $900 a month.  Does the monthly rent sound too good to be true?  Then it probably is. Recently a scam artist had copied the pictures and the description of one of listings and placed an ad for it for rent on Hotpads.com. The house was […]

Discovery at Spring Trails once touted as the first ecomagination community in Northwest Houston never really got off the ground.  The plan was to develop an 1,100 acre community in a prime location off Riley Fuzzel (path of the proposed Grand Parkway) include resort style amenities and add a green element with a mandatory requirement for […]

One of the first things a buyer will ask me about a Spring Texas house is “How many days has it been on the market?” Days on Market (DOM) is a measurement of time.  It represents the number of days a house has been listed as Active on the Spring Texas real estate market. If the house […]

Buying a Spring Texas house is a series of steps and upon the completion of each and every step the anticipation and excitement of move-in day builds. The most stressful and the least fun step in buying a Spring Texas home has to be getting a mortgage. The mortgage process starts off easy. The loan […]

Should you have the Spring Texas home you are buying inspected?  Yes.  But do you need an inspection if the home is new?  Most buyers think the answer is No. But the answer is still the same – Yes. Just because the home is new doesn’t mean it was built correctly. I know … the builder told you he was having […]

In 2005, when Hurricane Rita headed towards Spring Texas did you stay or did you go?  In 2008, when Hurricane Ike came barreling ashore did you stay or did you go? For both Hurricane Rita and Hurricane Ike, we waivered back and forth in our decision to stay or to go.  But ultimately we decided to stay in Spring Texas […]

When you’re interested in buying a Spring Texas house, do you wonder how much the sellers paid for it?  Or maybe you wonder how much the sellers mortgage is? This is what I call “good to know” information. But that’s all it is. How much a seller paid for his house or how much he owes on […]

Freddie Mac has announced mortgage rates have hit new record lows with the average 30-year mortgage rate being 3.84%.  No, that’s not a typo.  It is 3.84%. But with the 3.84% being an average rate, it makes you wonder if any home buyer / borrower is ever able to get the low average rate?  The answer is YES! […]