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2008 

This is the question I hear more and more frequently.  With the national news reporting on real estate crises across the nation it becomes more and more confusing to prospective home buyers in Dallas.  The simple fact is that the Dallas housing market, while affected by many of the same factors t...
04/30/2008
You might wait until after July 29 to shop. May 2008 Consumer Reports has tests of many new refrigerators, but the key point that they report is that those built after April 28, 2008 must be 20% more efficient than the current federal standard. If the 3.5 million Energy-Star qualified refrigerato...
04/30/2008
SOLD Steve Shatsky | Keller Williams Realty - Dallas City Center | (469)449-9840 3919 Holland Avenue #202, Dallas, TX Who says you can't have it all? 2 Bdrm Condo offered at $136,900 Year Built 1971 Sq Footage 1,035 Bedrooms 2 Bathrooms 2 full, 1 partial Floors 2 Parking 2 Uncovered spaces Lot Si...
04/28/2008
No longer available. Contact us about other properties. Steven Shatsky | Keller Williams Realty - Dallas City Center | (469)449-9840 4040 Avondale Ave. #106, Dallas, TX Enjoy the good life in the heart of Oaklawn! 2 Bdrm Condo offered at $219,900 Year Built 1985 Sq Footage 1,396 Bedrooms 2 Bathro...
04/19/2008
SOLD Steve Shatsky | Keller Williams Realty - Dallas City Center | (469)449-9840 927 Warfield Way, Richardson, TX SHORT SALE OPPORTUNITY IN RICHARDSON 3 Bdrm Single Family House offered at $124,000 Year Built 1960 Sq Footage 1,488 Bedrooms 3 Bathrooms 2 full, 0 partial Floors 1 Parking 2 Car gara...
04/19/2008
GREAT SHORT SALE OPPORTUNITY IN RICHARDSON!Short Sale opportunity on a house with good curb appeal in the Richardson Heights area.  Richardson ISD Schools.  Great possibilities on a nice street for anyone with some imagination, a few cans of paint and Do-It-Yourself inclinations! Special features...
04/19/2008
Just 2 days ago I posted a Blog entry titled Welcome to Real Estate Word-a-palooza! Anyone have a Dictionary?  In it, I wrote about new real estate terminology.  One of the terms I discussed was "TOD".  For those who missed it, TOD stands for "Transit-oriented Development" and is a term used to d...
04/13/2008
To sell real estate in Dallas it used to be the words and terms you needed to know were common ones like condominium, townhouse, Tudor, soft-contemporary.  In some parts of town (especially some historic districts) you needed to know the names of the important architects who designed homes that w...
04/11/2008
Apparently pricing strategy is not limited to choosing the right price range but also choosing a price that makes people think they are not spending a lot.According to a recent research study done by a team at Cornell University people associate large rounded numbers (such as those ending in "000...
04/10/2008
It has been a LONG day.I have spent the past few of weeks working with a young couple who are first time buyers on a good sized transaction.  Throughout the transaction on the other end of the phone or e-mail was Martha, the listing agent with another brokerage who has many more years of real est...
04/09/2008
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