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How Searching Homes for Sale is Changing at My Denton County Real Estate

September 16, 2009
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I have always been an advocate for the No Registration Required mantra here at My Denton County Real Estate. It’s been obvious I encourage visitors here to search for homes at their leisure, and to have unlimited access to the information available with the MLS/IDX search much like this point of view.

But now is time for a change. If you would like to see the new guidelines and skip all my commentary you can go here.

There has always been lot of talk and debate about real estate websites that offer this tool for searching real estate and even more lately can be seen here and over here.
Typically Registration for Access falls into one of these 4 categories:

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How some agents waste your time and theirs with Open Houses

September 10, 2009
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Now if that headline got your attention let me say I am a fan of the open house / broker’s open when done properly. My issue is how a lot of real estate agents go about preparing for an open house. It it is a common belief among sellers and many real estate agents that a open house is really just another way for the agent holding it open to get new buyer prospects or customers more than an opportunity to actually sell the house they are sitting open. It does not have to be this way.

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Is a 5% Interest Rate a magic number?

September 4, 2009
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Below is a commentary from CNBC on September 3, 2007 pointing at that historically speaking when the interest rates fall below 5% the Home Buyers comes out to play, and in a big way. The Fall selling season we are entering needs this; but as this story also points out when rates drop as they did last Spring it shows an increase in mortgage applications, not necessarily people buying homes. In the Spring of 2009 a huge portion of this was done for refinancing existing loans. As of now, the re-financing rates are not as attractive as they were last Spring, and still not near new purchase rates.

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2nd Forfeited Land Sale of 2009 from the Texas VLB

September 2, 2009
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It’s that time again, the information thousands have been waiting for and dozens have already been searching for judging from my analytics. The second sale of 2009 for forfeited tracts of land from Texas Veterans Land Board. On Tuesday, October 27, 2009, once again forfeited land tracts will be made available to eligible Texas Veterans in a sealed-bid sale.

There are some new guidelines and information different than previous land sales as written about here.

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My Denton County Real Estate now supporting iPhone, PDA’s and Blackberry

August 28, 2009
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It is now easier to read this information on this site. I have just installed a new plug-in for the blog called WPtouch iPhone Theme written by Dale Mugford & Duane Storey. For those of you into running your own site as, I do, I am telling you this thing is slick! It has a great administrators page, and despite the fact they call it a theme — I would probably call it a skin. I did not need to edit or change any of my CSS files or any special integration to source files. It also supports or plays nice with all my other applications and plug-ins.

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Send Your Home on a “Date”

July 12, 2009
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A Note from Jay Myers — I was fortunate enough to receive a phone call from Clara Caussey this week offering her Home Staging Services free of charge to my next new listing. Appreciating her offer, and respecting her initiative to acquire a new relationship in real estate I asked her to become a Guest Contributor here at My Denton County Real Estate. She has graciously accepted and the following is her first — I hope of many — articles she has written to share with the visitors of this site looking to buy or sell real estate in DFW. Regardless if your are currently listed with another real estate agent, or are a REALTOR in the area I would encourage you to contact Clara and take advantage of her training and experience. Thanks again Clara!

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Buyer Beware: When Considering a Short-Sale and your Tax Credit

June 29, 2009
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This is a topic I have been intending to write about for several weeks — But I have been so busy working on deals with my current clients I have not been able to throw out this bit of caution to some of my readers, and hopefully soon-to-be customers. My prediction after gauging the temperament, price ranges of starter homes, and the quest for a “good deal” by first-time homebuyers is that many hoping to take advantage of this short-sale market may miss the opportunity of receiving their First Time Homebuyer Tax Credit. I have not really written or even mentioned much about short-sales on this website; simply because there are plenty of other sources, and acquiring customers who may buy a short-sale simply comes with the real estate landscape for the time being.

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