DeeinAustin

NOTE: This article is part of the forthcoming book, the Gotcha GuideTM to Buying or Investing in Real Estate.Being a real estate agent can be tough. Some clients think agents drive people around, show houses all day, and make easy cash so they can buy fancy cars or clothes and spend weekends on t...

By DeeinAustin You may already know that I was a Global Project Manager at Apple, Inc. back in "the day". When you're analyzing a business or managing projects, Microsoft Excel is your friend because you can use it to understand long-range and short-term trends. I decided to dust off my old Excel...

By DeeinAustin I'm old enough to remember when computers first hit the consumer shelves. Personal computers revolutionized the way the business world worked and the way human beings communicate with each other. Then came cell phones, video chat and conferencing, and broadband internet, which furt...

We get a lot of questions from Texas real estate investors. They often want to know where to start, how to grow their current investment business, what the market is doing, etc. I answered many of these questions in my recent interview with Jay Papasan, co-author of three New York Times Best sell...

My seller clients were negotiating with a cash buyer this weekend who made a seriously low offerFor background, their home is back on the market because the previous buyer backed out the day before closing. This new buyer made a cash offer that's $35k below the September appraised value. I gave t...

I've been focusing on the mortgage market heavily this month because August and September were very tough for many Texas real estate buyers, agents and sellers. Inventory is up, home sales are down and the ability to obtain a mortgage has been tougher.GOOD NEWS THAT "SOUNDS" BADAs expected, a gre...

I came across an article in the REALTOR Magazine that talks about REALTOR.com's new look and feel. The real estate industry is always changing and moving at a fast pace. Since the early part of the decade, sweeping changes in technology and internet use have re-defined how agents work with their ...

Dallas, Texas is a pretty attractive real estate market. Like Austin and Houston, it has steady job and population growth although residential home prices have decreased about 1.4% since last year. When I was on Austin Business District's radio hour, I noted that residential investors, home buyer...

Each week, we're going to try to spotlight a builder or community in Texas. Over time, we hope to have a vast database of the Texas communities and why residents choose to live there. Chestnut Commons is a "hip" urban bungalow community in East Austin that's entering it's final build phases. Arma...

There's a lot of investors and commercial construction experts looking for senior housing projects in Texas. The Baby Boomer Generation has started to retire. Many look to Texas for affordable living space in a warm climate.Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio are some of the most popular Texas citie...