July 24, 2011

When should you disconnect the utilities?

In our residential real estate contract for the State of Texas utilities are only mentioned once. According to the real estate contract, the seller is obligated to have utilities turned on for the buyer’s inspections of the house. After the buyers have completed their inspections, the sellers can if they so desire have the utilities disconnected. Spring Texas home sellers […]

July 22, 2011

Are you a house watcher?

Are you a house watcher? Do you go online to check the status of a particular Spring Texas house every day? If you are a house watcher, it’s okay to admit it because you are not the only one. We frequently receive calls from buyers wanting to know if a particular Spring Texas house they have been watching […]

July 21, 2011

Should you or shouldn’t you grant the buyers an extension?

On the 18th, two days before you are scheduled to close on your Spring Texas house, your Realtor calls and says “I have some bad news. We won’t be closing on the 20th. The lender is waiting on underwriting to issue a final approval.” What?!? Doesn’t the lender know that you need the funds from the sale of […]

July 19, 2011

Farm Stands

Nothing says “Summer” better than fresh produce and where can you get the freshest produce in Spring Texas? It’s not from a grocery store but from one of the local Spring Texas farm stands. Farm Stands: Atkinson Farms is a 4th generation farm that was started in the 1950s. In the year 2000, they decided it was time for them to […]

July 17, 2011

Your Realtor’s out of town. What do you do?

A new house just came on the Spring Texas real estate market that you really want to view. The house looks perfect. It looks like it may be “the house” you have been searching for. The problem is your Spring Texas Realtor is out of town for the weekend? What do you? You could wait until your Realtor gets back into town […]

July 14, 2011

Spring Texas Real Estate: Market Report June 2011

What’s going on with the Spring Texas Real Estate Market? As anticipated last year’s home buyers tax credits continue to skew the year over year and the YTD comparisons. In order to qualify for the home buyers tax credits, buyers had to be in contract by April 30th, 2010 and close by June 30, 2010. After the […]

July 11, 2011

Best Yogurt

Last year finding a yogurt shop in Spring Texas was near impossible. There were a couple of TCBY yogurt shops but they didn’t make it through the summer. The popular way to cool off was by eating ice cream at Brusters or crunching on a sno-cone at a roadside stand. If 2010 was the year of ice cream, then 2011 has […]

July 7, 2011

Red light cameras turned on, Again!!

Houston voters, your vote isn’t what it used to be! Yesterday, Mayor Annise Parker annouced the red light cameras were to be turned back on effective immediately and after a testing period tickets would again be issued. Last November, Houston voters voted against red light cameras and the City of Houston turned them off. But in June of 2011, U.S. […]

June 30, 2011

35% of Texans denied home loans

Five years ago when a potential buyer called requesting a showing of one listings I didn’t ask if he was pre-approved for a loan. I just scheduled the appointment and showed him the Spring Texas home I had for sale. Then if he liked the home, I told him the next thing we needed to do was get him […]

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