City of Austin Carbon Monoxide Ordinance
Are you aware there is a new City of Austin ordinance? Beginning April 1, 2018 (yes, April 1st and this isn’t an April Fool’s joke), carbon monoxide detectors will be required to be installed in almost all Austin homes. Does my home need a carbon monoxide detector installed? There is…
Post Disaster Home Purchase Program
So how does one purchase a new home while they have a home thats been classified as a total loss on their hands? The answer to that question is with a FHA 203(h) loan. There are a rules that one must adhere to in order to qualify for this program. Take a…
Mother Natures Role in Real Estate
Do you remember those times your mom, dad, grandma or grandpa sat you down, looked you square in the eyeballs and had a good ‘ole fashioned heart to heart chit chat? We remember those sessions quite well and believe those are many of the conversations that left a lasting impression…
Top 10 Things to do in Austin this Summer
Gawk at Mexican Free Tail Bats Every summer night between 8:15 p.m. and 9:00 p.m., the largest urban colony of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats in North America jets out for an insect dinner. To see the 1.5 million bats flee in swarms, belly up along the the upper eastern portion of Congress Bridge…
Tips for Viewing Homes in a Digital World
Touring properties for sale can be fun. You get to imagine yourself living in a completely different space, seeing how others decorate and learn how others have updated their homes or remodeled. But it is relatively easy to make a misstep when you are visiting these properties whether it be…
Google Maps
We suspect if you are like most buyers, you have been tinkering around on your favorite real estate search website, zooming in and out of the real estate photos and have laid your eyeballs on a few homes you are now excessively drooling over. Before you enter into a steamy…
Wire Fraud is REAL
First there was a steady string of fraud relating to cashier’s checks, now wire fraud is sadly the norm when speaking about a real estate transaction. According the FBI internet cyber crimes department, since 2016 more than 26 billion dollars have been lost as a result wire fraud. Because we…
Millennials Invade The Woodlands
Millennials… is a word you hear every time you turn on the TV, radio or open up a newspaper. So who are millennials anyway? They are folks who were born between 1981 and 1997 and as of today range in age from 19 and 35 years old. For the past several years, there…
TREC License Renewal Requirements
Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC) updated their salesperson and broker licensing requirements in order to renew and maintain your Texas Real Estate License. Long gone are the days a seasoned salesperson or broker could renew their license with 15 hours. The new TREC requires licensees to earn 18 CE hours in…
Don’t Miss a Home in your Home Search
Rewind ten or fifteen years ago. Searching for a home was quite cumbersome and took loads of time. Those in the market for a home to purchase had a few options to uncover potential properties: drive neighborhoods to uncover those properties for sale, plop open a real estate magazine or…