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Don’t Sign a Contract With a Builder Until You’ve Done These 5 Things!

Five Things to do before you buy a new home

You have found your dream home – a brand new house with a builder. They have preapproved you and have the contract ready to sign. Don’t! Do these 5 things first!

Posted in: Buying Tagged: builders

6 Biggest Mistakes Home Buyers Make in Fort Hood, TX

Common Home Buyer Mistakes Fort Hood TX

Fort Hood is an affordable market where you can get a lot of home for your dollar! That doesn’t mean that you can’t make mistakes though. Here are some of the most common mistakes I see home buyers making in the Killeen area.

Posted in: Buying Tagged: budget, builders, foreclosures, usda loan, Utilities, VA loan

Fort Hood Homes For Sale On the Market the Longest

Fort Hood Homes with the Longest Days on Market

The longest days on market for a home that successfully sold in 2017 was on the market for 966 days. Home types that often tend to take a long time to sell are luxury homes, fixer uppers, builder homes, short sales, tenant occupied, “make me move” owners and homes with title issues.

Posted in: Search Tagged: builders, fixer upper, short sales, tenant

What to Expect in Seller Concessions in the Fort Hood, TX Area?

What to Expect in Seller Concessions in the Fort Hood Area

Takeaways An uneducated buyer can leave a lot of money on the table if they aren’t familiar with the local market and what to ask for Buyer or Seller Market? Whether or not you get any seller concessions, and how much, depends heavily on the local real estate market. In buyer friendly markets, sellers often […]

Posted in: Buying, Selling Tagged: builders, closing costs, foreclosures, Home Warranty, Survey, Temporary Lease, Title Policy

The Most Expensive Vacant Land For Sale in the Fort Hood Area

Fort Hood's Most Expensive Vacant Land For Sale

View residential, commercial, and raw vacant land for sale in the Fort Hood area (Killeen, Harker Heights, Copperas Cove, Temple, Belton and Nolanville, TX), for everything from building your home, building your business, or escaping to the country.

Posted in: Search Tagged: builders, commercial, raw land, vacant lots

Buying a Home? To Use or Not to Use a Realtor®?

In American real estate, buyers’ agents have been a fairly recent phenomenon dating to the early 1990s.  Before then, homes were listed with a listing agent and advertised, and buyers went directly to the listing agent, buyer beware!, to buy homes.  They themselves had no representation. In time, it became more and more customary in […]

Posted in: Buying Tagged: builders, phil dunphy, Realtor

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