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Buyers you are about to learn and or
have recently learned that you are competing with multiple buyers and with
multiple offers on homes you want to buy... Buyers - make your offer the
best offer.Buyers you have a multiple
weapons in your arsenal. One of the
least often used is the No Option Period Torpedo. Sellers are not expecting buyers to buy
without an option period. “...
Read Post [Posted on 05/01/2013 By Debbie Russell]
Home warranties can be attractive to home owners or buyers who are looking at purchasing a property. These service contracts can cover all of a home’s major systems, such as the furnace or air conditioner, and will cover needed repairs if the appliance breaks or damaged.Some sellers are offering a home warranty to try to lure buyers.But not all home warranties are the same. Experts say you should ...
Read Post [Posted on 04/13/2013 By John Askins]
This video, provided by the Houston Association of Realtors, explains the importance of hiring a home inspector for your home purchase. Call us if you need an inspection. We know lots of inspectors and would be happy to offer you several local names and numbers. www.MaryAndKelly.com...
Read Post [Posted on 04/10/2013 By Kelly Stewart]
Most states require home sellers to disclose “material” facts. But the question is, what’s material?In general, says real estate author Dian Hymer, a fact is material when it would affect a buyer’s willingness to buy at the asking price. She says too much information is almost always better than too little. Sellers who are reluctant to be straightforward about their home’s potential problems shoul...
Read Post [Posted on 04/04/2013 By John Askins]
Home inspections don’t always turn up everything wrong with a home, but unknowing buyers can quickly turn unsatisfied when they move into their new home if they find a bunch of problems. "The purpose of a home inspection is to look for material defects of a property: things that are unsafe, not working, or that create a hazard," Kurt Salomon, president of the American Society of Home Inspecto...
Read Post [Posted on 03/30/2013 By John Askins]
Your house sometimes acts as if it’s alive—making strange sounds, emitting odd odors, and giving visual cues that say something might be amiss. Often, these are signs of home maintenance issues that need to be addressed, and decoding these sometimes puzzling clues could prevent minor problems from turning into major home repairs.Here’s how to interpret what your house is trying to tell y...
Building Setbacks and How They May Affect You
When building an addition to your building, home or detach garage you will need to consider the building setbacks for your city and subdivision plat.
In the city in which I live, the standard building setbacks are 5-feet from the property line to the building sides; 10-feet from the property line to the back side of the building; and 25-feet ...
Read Post [Posted on 02/24/2013 By Sussie Sutton]
I heard a story about the wife of a junior high school
principal who bought her husband a tie for Christmas. She selected one with a subdued pattern with
colors that complemented his favorite suit.
She didn’t notice until after she started wrapping it that the pattern consisted
of numerous silhouettes of shapely women.
Fortunately, it was noticed before the tie was worn to s...
Read Post [Posted on 02/18/2013 By Claudia Hohlt]
You’ve found your dream home. Make sure missteps don’t prevent a successful closing.If a contract requires you to have a home inspection, schedule an appointment immediately. Image: Stockbyte/Getty ImagesA home purchase isn’t complete until you make it to the closing. Until then, the transaction can fall apart for many reasons. Here are five tips for avoiding mistakes that cause a home sale to cra...
Read Post [Posted on 02/14/2013 By Elia Cooper]
THE WOODLANDS, TX- Buying Woodlands new homes can be a lenghty and tiresome process if you know nothing about real esate, don’t know the place where you are looking to buy and don’t have the necessary assistance. This is where the realtors in The Woodlands Texas come into play.if you aren’t familiarized with the real estate market and the steps surrounding the process of buying a new home in...
Read Post [Posted on 12/07/2012 By Matias Bulox]
Fall is a great time to paint your house’s exterior if necessary, sealing all surfaces before winter’s moisture has a chance to do damage. Image: Yellow Dog Productions/Getty Images
Certain home maintenance tasks should be completed each season to prevent structural damage, save energy, and keep all your home’s systems running properly. These maintenance tasks are most important for ...
Read Post [Posted on 11/05/2012 By Sandra Sausley]
When you order a home inspection please remember existing homes will have bumps and bruises. Your primary concern will be focusing on health and safety issues.You will hire the inspector, we'll give you a list of inspectors or you can locate your own.The inspector will attempt to locate everything they are qualified to find in a home that may be wrong. Do not panic when you see a list or problems ...
Read Post [Posted on 10/28/2012 By Gerald Page]
The link below is to an article about smoking detectors and what we don't know that we should. It says that the common smoke detector (ionization detectors) that most of us may have in our homes does not protect you from smoke. They are often not triggered by smoke and smoke inhalation is a very real threat to surviving a fire. Accordign to the article we should have photoelectri...
Read Post [Posted on 10/03/2012 By Jean Risha]
Beware of Thieves and Carpet Baggers
TODAY a woman (call her buyer #5) came in stating she had just purchased a lot with a mobile home on it and had received comments from our inspector on what needed to be done before power to the house could be approved for “turn on”.
I saw the address and gasped as four other people had purchased this very lot and mobile home within the last 40 da...
Read Post [Posted on 09/27/2012 By Sussie Sutton]
