Home Buying Tips

June 10, 2009

Letters of the Real Estate alphabet – P and PS

In the real estate alphabet the letter P is for Pending and the letters PS is for Pending Continue to Show.   There are more commonalities than differences between the P and PS statuses that I decided to discuss them together. Spring Texas real estate listings in a P or PS status are: Under Contract – the sellers and buyers have agreed to […]
June 7, 2009

Top 10 Mistakes homebuyers make

On average a person purchases a home every 7 years.  Based upon the infrequency of the purchase its easy to understand how a homebuyer can make a mistake or two on the purchase of a Spring Texas home.    Here’s our list of Top 10 Mistakes homebuyers make and some tips on how to avoid them: […]
June 3, 2009

How to buy homeowners insurance for Spring Texas homes

Shopping around to get the best deal on homeowners insurance for my Spring Texas home is not the type of shopping I like to do.  But if it means I can save myself some money I have no problem switching insurance companies. Previously I had not been a shopper of insurance. I had been a loyal […]
May 28, 2009

Letters of the real estate alphabet – OP

When searching for homes buyers will find not only Spring Texas homes in an A status returned in their search results but also homes in an OP and PS status.  The A or Active status is the easiest status for potential home buyers to understand.  Its the other letters of the real estate alphabet that create all the confusion. OP is an abbreviation […]
May 22, 2009

Are you keeping secrets?

We all have secrets we are keeping. There are secrets we have with our spouse. Secrets we have with our girlfriends. Secrets we have with our family.  We keep secrets with people we can trust and keep secrets from people we can’t trust. There are certain relationships in which you should have no secrets. They are the relationships where keeping secrets could […]
May 20, 2009

What’s in your credit reports?

If you are planning on purchasing a Spring Texas home in the near future you need to know what’s in your credit reports.  Not only can the reporting errors hiding in your credit report mean the difference between loan pre-approval and loan denial but reporting errors can cost you hundreds of dollars a year due to a higher mortgage interest […]
May 8, 2009

How do Real Estate Agents get paid?

Like most people, before I got into real estate I had absolutely NO clue how Real Estate Agents got paid.  I had only known one Real Estate Agent and she was the Real Estate Agent I used to help me buy my first home and whose services I used to sell my first home two years later. What […]
May 6, 2009

Spring Texas home builders going out of business

Over the last two years, we have seen several Spring Texas home builders including Kimball Hill Homes, David Powers, Royce Homes, and Newmark Homes go out of business. Did the builders inefficiently manage their inventory and that was the cause of their demise? Or was the drying up of the credit markets the cause?  Who […]
May 4, 2009

Letters of the real estate alphabet – A

The real estate alphabet has 4 primary letter(s) home buyers come in contact with when searching for Spring Texas homes for sale.  They are A, OP, P, and PS. I will start by explaining what the letter A stands for in real estate because not only is it the first letter in the alphabet but it is […]