Helpful Hints for First-Time Home Buyers | Part 4

From Offer to Closing By Shawna Sanders If you’ve been following along in our series, Helpful Hints for First-Time Home Buyers, you’ve gotten your finances in order, chosen your real estate agent and lender before starting the hunt. You’ve found the house you want to make an offer on. So what happens now? Make an Offer…

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Helpful Hints for First-time Home Buyers _ Part 3

The Hunt! Finding your new home. By Shawna Sanders In the first two parts of our series, Helpful Hints for First-Time Home Buyers,  we covered getting your finances in order and finding the lender and real estate agent you want to work with. Now it’s time to get to the fun part of the home buying…

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Helpful Hints for First-time Home Buyers Part 2

Preparing for the Hunt By Shawna Sanders In Part 1 of our Helpful Hints for First-Time Home Buyer series we covered the steps to getting your finances in order to prepare for the home buying process. But you’re not quite ready to begin the house hunt just yet. First, you’re going to need to find…

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Could it be Time to Sell Your Dallas Home?

You were just about to pull the trigger on selling your Dallas home. Maybe you had picked out the realtor you wanted to work with. Maybe you had started shopping around for your next home. Maybe you had already started the packing process. And then the coronavirus pandemic struck and being in quarantine put all…

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Disaster Declaration October 21 2019_002

The Governor has declared the counties below as disaster areas after Sunday Night’s tornados. Disaster Area Declaration and what the means to my loan. ⦁ Cass  ⦁ Cameron ⦁ Collin ⦁ Dallas ⦁ Ellis ⦁ Erath ⦁ Hunt ⦁ Kaufman ⦁ Lamar ⦁ Panola ⦁ Rains ⦁ Rockwall ⦁ Rusk ⦁ Tarrant ⦁ Van Zandt ⦁ Wood counties The declaration is attached, for any property in these counties whose appraisal was completed…

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Know Your Refinance Options

Should you refinance your mortgage? Everyone is talking about refinancing right now because mortgage rates are near an all-time low. However, refinancing is not always a good idea. First of all, let’s look at what a refinance is. A mortgage refinance is a new mortgage that replaces your existing mortgage by paying it off. There…

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Mortgage Rate Market update 11.9.2018

Mortgage rate update for Dallas Texas November 9th 2018.  The mortgage rate increased this week over last week as we have seen for the past several weeks.   Check out our newest loan program and blog post, How to buy a home with bad credit. Good News The Federal Reserve’s policymaking committee opted not to…

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Mortgage Rate Market update 10.26.2018

Mortgage Interest rate update for Dallas Texas October 26 2018.   Current Mortgage Rate Trend Direction:  Modestly higher Advise for Clients for mortgage rate lock: Continue floating as Stocks endure pain, for now Disappointing earnings from Google and Amazon are pushing Stocks lower again this morning, while giving Bonds a boost higher. Today’s drop in Stocks…

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Single-family median home prices July 2017 versus July 2018

Dallas and Fort Worth home prices Market Report July 2018. This information looks to indicate that the housing market is somewhat slowing, or rather, returning to normal pace.  The Dallas market still continues to be a very attractive place in order to purchase your next home. Continued economic growth will keep housing demand strong for…

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