real estate: Are you Involved? - 03/06/12 05:29 AM
SHINSKY ATTENDS TEXAS REALTORS® WINTER MEETING 2012 IN AUSTIN
 
March, 2012 — Nita Shinsky of Shinsky & Assoc Real Estate Services in Azle was among more than 1,000 Texas REALTORS® attending the Texas Association of REALTORS® Winter Meeting, Feb. 24- 28 at the Hyatt Regency Austin.
Speakers during the five-day event included: Mark Dotzour, chief economist with the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M; Jed Smith, Ph.D., Managing Director of Quantitative Research for the National Association of Realtors®; Douglas Foster, Commissioner of the Texas Department of Savings and Mortgage Lending; Congressman Lloyd Doggett; State Representative Burt Solomons; and Joe Stewart, … (0 comments)

real estate: Texas Makes it harder to get a Real Estate License - 10/27/11 07:00 AM
As if it weren't hard enough, according to some, to get a real estate license in Texas. Effective January 1, it will become a little harder to get your real estate license in Texas, specifically, a Broker License! I was in favor of more requirements for brokers to get their license and I definitely think it will help the consumers in the long run with these new requirements.
An applicant is required to establish that the applicant has obtained 3600 points of active experience with documentary evidence and a statement from the applicant's sponsoring broker at the time the experience was … (0 comments)

real estate: Has the $8,000 Tax Credit really made much difference in your business? - 09/15/09 01:18 AM
I'm just curious to see if anyone is seeing buyers jump off the fence because of the $8,000 tax credit? I had a personal referral from a former Realtor who referred a buyer to me. Her lease is not expiring until the end of the year but was motivated slightly to attempt to close on something before the deadline. This has been the only experience I've seen, any thoughts from anyone else on Active Rain?
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real estate: Is Your Market as Bad and they Say It Is? - 10/12/08 02:52 PM
The news keeps talking about how prices are down for real estate and the market is so bad. I just don't buy that here in the DFW area. I know there are parts of every city that truly does have a declining market but the price of property today is higher than it was a year ago. If you consider that, the market really doesn't seem so bad! Yes, there are a lot of foreclosures entering the market and the banks are running out of money, so they say, but buyers are still actively purchasing in my market and sellers aren't … (12 comments)

real estate: The things Realtors do to Multi-task - 10/02/08 03:10 PM
Sadly, I was on a teleconference call this evening when I started googling on the web. I specialize in REO real estate so naturally, I entered some tags for foreclosures or REOs or something and this site pulled up with a few blogs that were posted. I started reading some of the blogs and then searched to see who else might be in the network that I might know. A very good friend of mine, who happens to work for a competitor across the street from my office was on there. He is such a blast to network with and he … (11 comments)