Carol Pease - Broker Associate - Bastrop, TX

       Anyone who is buying a house in Cedar Park or Leander -- or even just checking up on the market -- is likely to find that some of the rules of the game seem to have shifted. Particularly anyone expecting to be deluged by the kind of amazing deals being offered in 2008 and 2009 should see w...

  The Two Cedar Park, Texas  Real Estate Investor Types Cedar   Park, TX, investors Buy Foreclosed Homes – Sometimes!   Fix-and-Flip or Buy-and-Hold: Which Are You?       With the Fed having announced its intention to hold interest rates near 0% until at least mid-2015, even very cautious investo...

  As soon as you are offered a great new job or promotion – even if it’s in a new town -- your natural response is, “Absolutely, yes!” After all, you landed the opportunity because you are a go-getter -- someone who solves problems!   Experience teaches that seamless relocation to Central Texas t...

Over the holidays I received my new Davis Instruments Vantage Vue weather station.  We ordered it from Ambient Weather along with mounting hardware and Weather Link data logger and software.  The station is mounted on our roof and does not face the street.  It's on the back of the house so the HO...

  Great news for homeowners facing a foreclosure, principle reduction,   deed-in-lieu of foreclosure,  or short sale.  There has been a reprieve! As part of the Fiscal Cliff negotiations, the  House and the senate passed an extension of the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act to cover transactio...

The market has been so busy lately,  that I almost missed this very special email.  This year I thought I would send in an application and much to my surprise and delight I made the first cut.  This award is not just based on production,  but includes how much you give back to the community and h...

    First Time Homebuyers: Beyond the Big Picture   Shopping For a Cedar Park / Leander  Home: It’s Not Like Buying a Car!       When working with new buyer clients in Cedar Park & Leander – especially the first time homebuyers – I usually find myself fielding more than one question about what th...

I'm a short sale agent, and a damn good one at that.  I have handled over 700 distressed properties in my 17 year career.  Right now I have a problem file that I would like to share with the Active Rain community.   It may be a harbinger of things to come with Bank of America.  I have been trying...

Ocwen Financial Services is the worst of the worst when it comes to loan servicing! They have this little ditty on their website:"Helping Homeowner's is what we do!"  I'm not buying it.  They seem to do everything possible "not" to help the homeowner.  In fact it is almost impossible to even get ...

It was a beautiful day yesterday here in Central Texas.  The bluebonnets are in bloom everywhere.   I couldn't resist taking this picture of our Search and Rescue Dog, Stryker.  She was a good girl and sat while I snapped away trying to capture the beauty around her.   This picture was taken on O...