How to Be More Energy Efficient
Whether you are buying your first home or just want to boost your current homesteads more energy efficient, we have a few tips to ensure you spend your hard earned money on. These tips listed below will cause a small dent in the pocketbook initially, but over time they will…
Summer Home Maintenance Checklist
In order to ensure your home remains in tip top shape, your home needs a little TLC at various times throughout the year. There are certain tasks that you will want to tackle in the summer months versus the winter months. Take a peek at our list of Summer Home…
Hurricane Season Tips
Each year as soon as June 1 arrives, Texas meteorologists and news anchors will start tossing around the Big H word: HURRICANE. The Atlantic Hurricane Season, which includes the Gulf of Mexico, spans from June 1 through November 30th. Like clockwork, the conversation generally spirals from hurricane season is here…
Texas Homestead Exemption
Everyone wants to save money and pay less in taxes, right? The fastest way to a tax cut on what is usually your largest purchase is to apply for a homestead exemption. A homestead exemption removes part of the value of your home from taxation and lowers your tax base. The general…
Thin Mint Cookie Balls
It’s that time of year again where your local girl scout will be knocking on your door pimping out cookies or their parents will be hawking boxes of goodness to their cube mates. Below you’ll find the ingredients plus a step by step photo tutorial on how to whip…
2022 Texas Energy Star Sales Tax Holiday Weekend
When you think of Memorial Day Weekend, you probably start thinking of backyard barbecues and family get-togethers. I’m pretty sure the last thing that comes to mind is shopping, but if you’re of a mind, it’s time to dust off your pocketbook and boogie on down to your local appliance or hardware…
Winter Curb Appeal
Selling a home during the spring, summer or early fall months when your yard has the potential to be greener than the Irish countryside and every plant or flower in sight is in full bloom is obviously the ideal curb appeal. However, timing and weather conditions may not always be…
Credit Rejected Tenant
Have you rejected a tenant due to his/her credit since July 21, 2011? Even if you have notbut will be running a prospective tenants credit in the future you should become quite familiar with the most recent change within the Fair Credit Reporting Act. The change details exactly what property…
Pricing vs Exposure
Real estate is and will always be a numbers game. The object of the game is to expose the property to the largest amount of people, net the highest price, in the shortest amount of time for the best terms. Therefore, it is important to ensure you have mastered exposure…
How to Protest Your Property Taxes
With the tax protest deadline drawing near, a refresher on how to protest your property assessed value is definitely in order. First and foremost there are few things any homeowner wishing to protest their taxes should be aware of before proceeding with a property tax protest. Texas is a non-disclosure…