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National media MAY actually be keeping up

January 27, 2009
Old-Time TV & Media Coverage of Real Estate

It amazing to a lot of us in the real industry but the national media may actually be on the same page as the rest of us. This story recently ran on NBC’s Today Show, The 5 Biggest Real Estate Myth’s. It addressed many of the misconceptions buyers and sellers may have on their mind with the current market conditions. Sellers are desperate Don’t buy before prices have bottomed You can’t buy a home unless you have 20% down Now’s the absolute

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I LOVE me some First Time Home Buyers

January 22, 2009
First Time Home Buyers Questions?

Through this little blog, in the past few weeks, many hopeful first-time home buyers have reached out to me for advice, or with questions about whether home or property ownership is in their near future. The Affordable Housing Series has addressed many questions that are on the minds of would be homeowners, and Texas Veterans looking for assistance or programs for them call Denton County home. I wanted to point out just a few reasons why I believe it is so great

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Another reason SOME real estate agents suck

January 14, 2009
Real Estate Agents Suck who do not give Feedback

I guess with a title like that I should give a little background on how a portion of the real estate business is done here in the DFW Metroplex. Here and many parts of the country now use a showing service to set-up appointments for showings on listings of homes for sale. We use Centralized Showing Service, and this article will not be intended for pointing out the negatives or issues I have noticed with them, I will save that for another.

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Buying a Home with the Texas Veterans Land Board Program (TVLB)

January 8, 2009
Texas Veterans Land Board in Denton County Real Estate

In continuing my series of articles concerning Texas Affordable Housing; I will break-down the Texas Veterans Land Board Programs. This is an incredible program, and should not be confused with a Veterans Administration (VA) Home Loan. This is a loan program for buying a home, land, or home improvement specifically to benefit the more than 1.7 million civilian Veterans in Texas, and those that want to reside in Texas when leaving active duty. They also offer other programs for affordable long-term nursing

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USDA Rural Development – Texas Guaranteed Housing Loan Program

December 24, 2008
USDA Rural Development Loan Program in North Texas

In this chapter of the Affordable Housing series of articles, I am going to try to bring a clear and accurate depiction of the benefits, purposes, and qualification guidelines for the U.S. Department of Agriculture Home Loan programs. The USDA website is actually quite easy to gather information from, but I found in order to get to specific geographic areas a borrower would have to click sometimes 4 or 5 directories deep in order to get the information sought.

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Oops! That was REALLY ugly…

December 11, 2008
Denton County Real Estate Best viewed with Firefox

photo credit: chelseagirl I feel I need to apologize to the readers of my blog about some ugly formatting of text that was going on here if you use Internet Explorer for your web browsing. You see, I am a FireFox and Google Chrome user, I rarely use Internet Explorer for anything other than searching the MLS, both NTREIS Listings, and Rapattoni still require the IE engine because they use ActiveX for the most part. So when I write these articles, and

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Path to home ownership…What makes a good FICO Score?

December 7, 2008
Credit Score Meter for a Mortgage Loan

The news has been riddled lately with stories of the power of a positive credit score, and what you can do with it. But, since my job as real estate agent is helping folks buy homes, and as a Texas Affordable Housing Specialist supporting home ownership retention – I am going to give a quick refresher on what makes good FICO score, and how to get one. What is FICO? -

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