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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

May 15, 2010

Top 5 things you can do to sell your house faster

The busiest time of the year for the Spring Texas real estate market are the months of May, June, and July. Since we are already half way through the month of May, you don’t have time to waste if you want to get your house sold this summer. Here are 5 things you can do to […]

May 13, 2010

Homebuyers tax credits have ended. Now what?

April 30th, 2010 has come and gone and with it the expiration of home buyers tax credits. Well almost .. as the tax credit does continue until April 30, 2011 for qualified military personnel but for the majority of home buyers the fat lady has sung and the party is over. Will the expiration of the home buyers tax credit […]

April 23, 2010

Is your home’s MLS listing costing you buyers?

If you have your house on the Spring Texas real estate market, you need to check the accuracy of the information contained in your listing. Since none of us are perfect including Realtors, mistakes are made and will continue to be made. Every day I run across listings in our MLS with errors or incomplete data. If […]

April 9, 2010

Electronic Signatures and real estate contracts

I love technology but not technology for the sake of technology. Before I adopt a particular form of technology I have to be able to gain value from it. Value can be in the form of cost savings, increase in productivity, or increase in revenues. The technology to sign our Spring Texas real estate contracts electronically has been available for a while […]

March 24, 2010

How to choose a listing agent to sell your house

Choosing the right agent to help you sell your home takes research. It is not as simple as choosing the real estate agent whose son is on your son’s soccer team. The right agent will provide you with a smoother real estate transaction and get you more money for what may be your largest financial […]

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