Five Advanced Home Buyer Services You Should Expect from Your Agent
Any real estate agent can show any home buyer any listed home. Everyone knows that by now, so it's no wonder that many buyers don't place any importance on selecting which agent they work with, they just want to buy a house. It's incredibly understandable, because the choice of a selling agent SEEMS irrelevant.
It's the ADVANCED services that an...
Remodeling Your Home may be a HUGE Financial Mistake!
RE-MODEL or RE-BUY? Which is the right move for me?
That’s a great question! The answer that is right for your home, your family and your situation may be different than the right answer for your friends, family and neighbors.
IN GENERAL, the following questions are vital to the decision process:
Are you 100% happy with your home except for...
New Listing on Abilene Housing Market
Never before offered for sale, this one-owner custom home built in 2003 will be held open for viewing Sunday, November 13 from 1 to 5 PM.
7910 Starlight Drive features three split bedrooms in...
$100 down homes!
HUD has approved (for the term of one year) a downpayment of $100 for FHA-Approved HUD homes for owner/occupants. Yes, that means that if you promise to live there, you can buy a home for $100 down, if the home qualifies under the FHA lending guidelines. These would be homes that have been foreclosed on, and most probably need some work.
It...
Refinancing Your Mortgage may NOT be the thing-to-do!
For those homeowners sitting on top of a 7%+ mortgage that was a pretty good deal not too many years ago, the first and only option you might have considered is refinancing your home. If everything else is equal and stable, it is the thing to do. I did it. I dropped $40 a month AND 15 years from my payment. It is the route I chose to go because I...
Hey Abilene, Your Market is UP!
I've just logged an interesting phenomenon! Our Abilene real estate market usually peaks in the summer and starts dipping dramatically as soon as school starts, both in terms of units (most of us call them "homes") sold, and average price.
NOT THIS YEAR! Data pulled from our Multiple Listing service for Abilene shows that :
from August...