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Number 1 Thing You Must Do Before You Make A Short Sale Offer

August 21st, 2009 · 2 Comments

Short Sales are going to be with us for a while, a long while…especially on higher end condos in Uptown and surrounding area where developers over developed and builders over built the same thing. Nuff – said.  Basically a short sale is when the lender will take less for a property then is actually owed.  [...]

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New Home or Used? Which is the Better Buy?

August 11th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Before I was a licensed Broker – Realtor, I did what every buyer-consumer does when they start considering a place to call home.  Back then there weren’t any homes on the Internet to help with the pre-search.  You just got in the car and drove, it helped that you knew the area.  I looked at [...]

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Inventory Issues in the Park Cities…Take a look!

December 1st, 2008 · No Comments

There are opportunities in every market and in Dallas it’s homes priced above $1 million – take a peek at the historical chart going 2 years back. Inventory in University Park has almost doubled from this time two years ago. Same with Highland Park – give or take a little.  Most of the units are [...]

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Does Staging a Home Increase the List Price?

July 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments

More and more sellers in this market are staging their homes, mostly in the upper tier price range. I’ve come across several properties in the past two months that have dramatically increased in price! Both have been on the market for a couple of years and have done the downward price decline spiral and still [...]

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No Negotiations – Really?

July 18th, 2008 · No Comments

FOR SALE – LIST PRICE ONLY You know every real estate transaction is different. There’s always the house of course and a buyer, seller and probably an agent or two. I think it goes without saying that all of real estate transactions are negotiable. From the price, terms, commissions and even non real estate items, [...]

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