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June 9, 2010

Automatic email notifications and missed opportunities

Over 90% of  home buyers are searching for Spring Texas homes for sale on the Internet.  Ninety percent of home buyers is a powerful number. But home buyers are doing much more than just searching for homes on the Internet.  They are also looking at photos, mapping locations, viewing virtual tours, viewing YouTube videos, and setting up […]
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June 5, 2010

Flood Insurance – Wise purchase or a waste of money?

Once again, hurricane season has arrived.  Hopefully, we will have another calm year like 2009 and not another year like 2008 when Hurricane IKE came barreling through the Spring Texas area.  If your house is located in the 100-year flood plain and you have a mortgage, your lender requires you to have flood insurance.  But what […]
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May 31, 2010

Is your home’s listing on page 1 or page 200 of Google?

How do buyers find Spring Texas real estate?  They Google.  When it comes to search there is none more powerful. When home buyers are googling moving to Spring Texas, Spring Texas subdivisions, blogs on Spring Texas real estate or a home’s pysical address what will they find?  Will it be your home they find or a home […]
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May 28, 2010
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Why does it cost more to live in a gated community?

Why does it cost more tods live in a gated community in Spring Texas and is it worth it?  The first part of the question I can answer for you.  Whether it’s worth the extra cost is one of personal opinion. We have several gated communities in Spring Texas including Estates at Creek Ends, Spring Lakes, Lakes of Cypress Forest, […]
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May 24, 2010

Realtor.com iPhone APP and your listing

Did you know that since its launch in 2007 over 200 million iPhones have been sold?  What does the millions of iPhone users have to do with the listing of your Spring Texas house?  A lot. The percentage of home buyers using the Internet to search for Spring Texas homes for sale has been steadily increasing over the years.  According to […]
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May 22, 2010
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How to dispute your real estate taxes

If you haven’t filed a protest of your Spring Texas real estate taxes yet, you still can.  But don’t wait too much longer as the protest deadline is June 1st. Once you decide to protest the tax assessed value of your Spring Texas house, the next decision you have to make is do you protest the value yourself […]
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May 19, 2010

Real Estate negotiations – business or personal?

Negotiating the sell or purchase of Spring Texas real estate is vastly different than other business negotiations.  Yes, there are some similarities between real estate and business negotiations. They both involve a contract and require give and take between people or corporations. But that’s where the similarity ends between real estate and business negotiations. Business negotiations are just that business. It’s nothing personal […]
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May 17, 2010

Spring Texas Real Estate: Market Report April 2010

What’s going on with the Spring Texas Real Estate Market?  Fueled by the last minute rush from buyers wanting to take advantage of the tax credits before there expiration on April 30th, home sales for the month were 27% higher than April 2009.  While the prior year’s month over month showed a significant increase, there was no corresponding increase […]
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