Real Estate Blog

How to turn off your water valve. I have a few friends who had pipes burst and their homes flooded. When the heat starts to rise many may experi...

Elsa may love it, but you could end up hating it if you don't protect your home from an extended freeze. Here are the top items to address when expect...

In residential real estate, the best day of a seller’s life is quickly followed by one of the worst. You work hard to negotiate an acceptable ...

Republished fro Dallas Morning News article - Feb 2020 Everything about the gated, two-story brick house says: Stay away. The chain blocking the ...

I love the optimism of real estate investors (flippers).  I was honored to be selected to list this 3 bedroom charmer in central Plano. The prope...

Torn from the pages of real world real estate:  5 months ago, prospect did not hire me because they wanted someone who was more of a "neighborhoo...

Recently, I was interviewing with a seller to represent their home. In the main living room of the house, there was a large and rather ornate "Cat Tre...

TORN FROM THE PAGES OF REAL WORLD REAL ESTATE:  (editor's note: this original story is from Dec 1, 2019. As of last week, seller still has not so...

I am proud to have navigated my seller clients past a predator buyer last week. Here was the scenario...  Buyer made an offer that was all cash w...

I like to share stories from my real world real estate experiences. Hopefully there can be a lesson shared that will save someone from going down simi...

Even in a strong real estate market, the buyer pool for a $3M+ property is narrow, to say the least. Over the last two years, there have been 260...

2020 has been an interesting year for residential real estate. While the world was shut down for 2+ months from March to June, the real estate market...

I was looking at houses back in October with a client. She saw this wastepaper basket in a bedroom and remarked "I had this EXACT trash can in my b...