buying real estate: Real Estate - Buying a House - Austin TX- The Simple Steps to Follow- Part 6
- 08/23/09 01:31 PM
When buying a home, there are several steps, but if broken down, it's much less intimidating. What else helps? Doing the steps in a particular order. For example, Buying a house in Austin TX, the Simple Steps to Follow- Part 1 of this series talked about getting Pre-Approved for a mortgage, while Part 2 talked about how to start looking for houses and neighborhoods. Part 3 talked about actually looking at the insides of houses, while Part 4 talked about writing the offer. And the latest was Part 5 where I talked about the inspections. There's more to the process? I just did … (3 comments)
buying real estate: Real Estate - Buying a House - Austin TX- The Simple Steps to Follow- Part 1
- 08/14/09 06:08 AM
When buying a house in Austin TX, there are several steps to follow, but if broken down, it's much less intimidating. What else helps? Doing the steps in a particular order. For example, the first, and more important step to buying a home, whether you're a first time home buyer, or buying your fifth house, is getting Pre-APPROVED for a mortgage. I used the term pre-approved because I don't want to see the term pre-qualified. What's the difference? A pre-qualified buyer is someone who made a phone call to a mortgage professional, gave that person a few pieces of verbal information, … (9 comments)
buying real estate: What are Triggers to Home Buying?
- 04/10/09 02:56 PM
Earlier this week, I wrote a blog about Triggers called Why Does a First Time Home Owner Buy a House. I've had many comments about this blog and I just wanted to touch on a few points. I want to make sure people understand what a "Trigger" is. A trigger is something that helps create an action. A trigger is not necessarily a benefit of doing something. For example, a few people commented to me about the $8000 First Time Home Buyer Credit and also mentioned about the tax breaks. Those are benefits of buying a home, but those aren't triggers to buying a … (12 comments)
buying real estate: Why Does a First Time Home Owner Buy a House?
- 04/07/09 06:16 AM
What makes that first time home owner finally take the leap to buy a house? Is it the responsibility of the maintenance? Is it wanting to plant their own flowers in their own garden? Is it because they want to buy a lawn mower and sweat in the heat of mowing every weekend? There are many reasons why someone takes that leap, and below is a list of some common triggers that I often hear that helps them make their important decision. Writing the rent check month after month- Instead of paying your own mortgage, you realize you're paying someone else's mortgage in … (20 comments)
This blog is to help educate Buyers, Sellers and even other Realtors across the country. Each market is different and the way Real Estate is done is different. Austin Real Estate is completely different than Dallas, California and Florida and everywhere else in between. Some times there will be other things besides real estate as I like to rant and rave as much as the next!! Come back often!
When buying a home, there are several steps, but if broken down, it's much less intimidating. What else helps? Doing the steps in a particular order.
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