Category Archives: New Homes in Austin TX

Are You A Good HOA? Or Are You A Bad HOA?

Are you a good HOA? Or are you a bad HOA? They are not all created equal. Generally when we sell a home in a subdivision that has an HOA, the buyers don’t get all the HOA rules and regulation until after the closing. Well, they need to see them first. You need to know…

Home Owners Insurance-(What You Don’t Know).

Home Owners Insurance-What you don’t know. Did you know there are different kinds of Home Owners Insurance? Most agents don’t tell you that however. When you call and say you are buying a home and need to get insurance…they give you the basic Home Owners Policy. You are covered for most things you can think…

Who put men in charge?

House Plan

I am not man bashing. (That will come in perhaps the next post!) … I get so frustrated in the things that I know a man has designed. I just know some guy was sitting around thinking…what could I create that I would never want to use, and would totally suck the life out of…

Buyer Thy Shalt Not

Dear Buyer, I have done everything I can do to this point to get you into the home of your dreams. Now it is up to the Mortgage and Title professionals to their job and get the paperwork ready for you to sign. But they will run your credit report again, just before we close. You are not…

What determines a Luxury Home?

Any home can be a Luxury Home to someone. A quote I coined (since who else would say this but me!) and have used often.  Other agents and brokers have looked at me like I was “one showing short of a sale”. But, I stand behind it. To prove that point, an agent showed an…

Information you should have for a closing.

I have heard, and read stories about the nightmares agents have ran into at closings.  A lot of times, it is the other agent who never shows up for the closing, never informed the seller or buyer what they needed to bring to a closing, the buyer didn’t know what the payments would be on…

New Home Construction for your clients

I was recently surprised at how many agents were not familiar with a product called Tech Shield. It is a radiant barrier best installed when a home is being built. The cost for an average home is around $300-$500 dollars. It blocks 97% of the heat coming into a home. Savings are usually 17-20% per…