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Choosing a REALTOR®: Four Common Mistakes

Everyone has their own method to their madness on how they chose professionals they chose to do business with. The madness ranges from someone you’ve known since you were in diapers that has worked for your family for ages, to someone your best friend just used and raves about or…

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…

Cost vs Value Report

Every year the National Association of Realtors, in cooperation with Remodeling Magazine produces the average costs recouped for the Top 35 Home Remodeling Projects. What is great about this report is it’s sorted by region, based on material costs.  Before you tackle any home improvement projects this year, make sure…

Selecting a Home Inspector

Open up a phone book or not because that is so 1980’s… instead complete Google search for “austin texas home inspectors” and you’ll find hundreds of inspectors to choose from. How do you begin to narrowing down the list or do you even know the difference between a rockstar inspector,…

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…

Open Houses

In the 1980’s and 90’s, Open Houses were the way to sell a house. It was also the time when your realtor could place a lock box on the door, place a sign in the yard and place an ad about the upcoming open house in the paper and just…