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It’s the End of the (Paper) World As We Know It…and We Feel Fine!
It’s the End of the (Paper) World As We Know It…and We Feel Fine!As paper disappears more and more from our daily lives, the real estate industry sometimes seems like one of the last vestiges of ink-and-paper transactions. These days you can buy […]
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“If Only I Had Known …”
“If Only I Had Known …”This is the refrain repeated by so many home buyers who lost or almost lost their savings from a wire fraud attempt during the process of buying a home: “If […]
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The Sky Is Not Falling. Mark Sprague’s Texas Market Update
The Sky Is Not Falling. Mark Sprague’s Texas Market UpdateThe unemployment rate has hit a new low — 3.7 percent — that was last seen in December of 1969. Of course, things were a little different in the late […]
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Is the Texas Market Still Booming? Mark Sprague’s Texas Market Update
Is the Texas Market Still Booming? Mark Sprague’s Texas Market UpdateThe Texas metros housing markets have certainly been booming over the last several years. But as I’ve said before, the concern is when is the slowdown? Is it imminent, in a […]
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The Billion-Dollar Industry Threatening Real Estate Transactions – How to Protect Yourself
The Billion-Dollar Industry Threatening Real Estate Transactions – How to Protect Yourselfby Cassandra Majors Pop Quiz: What industry grew by almost a billion dollars from 2016 to 2017? Hints: You wouldn’t want to invest in it, there are no publicly traded […]
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Lumber Prices are Rising! Mark Sprague’s Texas Market Update
Lumber Prices are Rising! Mark Sprague’s Texas Market UpdateBy Mark Sprague, Independence Title State Director of Information Capital The House / Apartment You Look at Today Will Be Gone Tomorrow! And it will certainly be more expensive. Not […]
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Carbon Monoxide Detectors: Now a City of Austin Requirement
Carbon Monoxide Detectors: Now a City of Austin RequirementBy Cassandra Majors After I smoked my last cigarette five years ago, I quickly mutated into a twitchy, manic, raging lunatic for the next two weeks. I came up with […]
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Does Your Social Media Need A TREC Check Up?
Does Your Social Media Need A TREC Check Up?Is it us or do the TREC requirements for posting the IABS and Consumer Protection Notice on social media seem a little confusing? “So what exactly DOES TREC want from […]
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The MUD Mystery
The MUD MysteryThere’s one sentence in one section of the contract that always ruffles everyone’s feathers whenever we teach our class Navigating the 1-to-4 Family Contract. The last sentence of section 6 […]
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It’s a Weird, Weird World of Real Estate Out There
It’s a Weird, Weird World of Real Estate Out ThereTexas real estate can be pretty weird. In the rest of the country, for example, the idea of paying a seller a small fee in exchange for giving the potential […]