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Welcome to our real estate magazine. I am passionate about helping people and I believe the advice you will find here will benefit you. Our goal is to be a resource to you and bring you relevant real estate information that affects Rockwall homeowners. If this is your first time to our site, welcome. I hope you will take a moment and subscribe to our magazine. You can do so in the upper area towards the right side of the magazine. Read the story »

So How Do You Really Feel About Foreclosures?

One of the hot topics regarding real estate is foreclosures. Are there really a lot of them and are they a good deal. In a recent online survey by Harris Interactive on behalf of Trulia.com, there are some interesting observations regarding whether you, the buyer, would consider purchasing a foreclosure and of those surveyed whether or not they thought there was any negative aspects involved in purchasing one. Here are the facts.

Interest in foreclosures is on the rise. The amount of searches conducted for foreclosures have more than tripled in the first quarter of 2008, rising by 214%. The survey was conducted in late April of 2008 and shows that over half would consider purchasing a foreclosed home.

Do buyers feel there are negative aspects in purchasing a foreclosed home? Yes, 69% of those surveyed said they believed there were with the negative aspects believed to be 69% cited hidden costs, 35% considered the prospect as risky and 33% mentioed the possibility of the home losing it’s value. These are all valid concerns and should be addressed. The following list of guidelines should help. Read the story »

7 Ways to Avoid Mistakes and 3 Things to do when you do

Nothing slows down productivity like a mistake. We all make them, and we all hate having to spend the time and effort going back and correcting them. Here are 7 simple things you can do right now that will help you avoid making another mistake.

Slow Down
Even though we have so much technology in place to help us, it seems as though we are always in a hurry to complete one project and move on to the next. What happens is that we get so caught up in what we are planning, that it is so simple to have a careless error in what we are doing right now. When we make an error like this, it is so aggravating to think we could have avoided it by simply slowing down and doing what we knew to do. Read the story »