Located just 47 miles northwest of Austin, Marble Falls is in the middle of the Highland Lakes area, the largest chain of lakes in Texas which are Lake Marble Falls, Inks Lake, Lake LBJ, Lake Buchanan and Lake Travis. With a population of 7,200 it is a beautiful little town. Surrounded by rolling hills and [...]
Entries from January 2009
Central Texas Profiles : Marble Falls, Texas
Jan. 31st, 2009
How a Pawleys Island Real Estate Agent is Selling Homes and Making Money
Jan. 31st, 2009
Smart IDX Pro (formerly called Smart VOW and Smart CCC) is the premier property search tool for visitors and the most powerful back-office and marketing tool for the agent. Currently in it’s seventh year of development and unlike other IDX back office solutions, Smart IDX Pro is a mature, tried and tested web-based productivity tool, [...]
Brevard County Florida Real Estate
Jan. 31st, 2009
According to CNN news, two-thirds of Americans ages 25 through 34 are deciding first where they want to live, and then looking for employment in that place. This practice is in direct contrast to the previous generation’s custom of finding a job and then settling wherever was necessary for that job, even if it was [...]
Understanding Short Sale Real Estate Investing
Jan. 31st, 2009
You might be rightly afraid to deal in real estate in the present scenario since you would not know whether the price of the property that you have just purchased might fall even further before you have a chance to flip it. In this case you should consider short sale real estate investing. Essentially, a [...]
Home Improvements Loans Are a Bad Idea
Jan. 31st, 2009
Most homeowners do not save money for major improvements and required maintenance, and these homeowners often take out home equity lines of credit as a method of mortgage equity withdrawal to fund home improvement projects. The logic here is that renovations improve the property so an increase in property value offsets the additional debt. This [...]
Mortgage Equity Withdrawal is a Cultural Pathology
Jan. 31st, 2009
Mortgage Equity Withdrawal or MEW is the process of obtaining cash through refinancing residential real estate using the accumulated equity as collateral for the loan. This is a cultural pathology because it is not sustainable. Many people became addicted to using their houses as an ATM machine, and when prices fell, these people lost their [...]
Why is Today the Best Time to Buy Real Estate?
Jan. 30th, 2009
Are you leveraging the real estate pricing drop for your own financial advantage? The current recession coupled with the rapidly rising quantity of foreclosures has presented real estate investors with a real financial opportunity. For those investors who capitalize on reduced pricing by building a real estate portfolio, financial gains are available to generate. However, [...]
The New Realities of Real Estate
Jan. 30th, 2009
In recent times many people have been treating real estate, including their personal residence like a business. Many homeowners and house investors had visions of becoming rich from their real estate. It also seems everyone thought they were an expert. Many real estate investors were looking like gambling addicts who thought they could make up [...]
The Day The Phones Stopped Ringing…
Jan. 30th, 2009
In recent years London and Monaco have both held the title of the most expensive property in the world, with Monaco recently outstripping London’s most exclusive areas to top the list of the world’s most expensive real estate. And as well as having the most expensive property in the world, Monaco can claim to have [...]
Buyer Activity in Phoenix Real Estate Market Showing Substantial Year-Over-Year Improvement
Jan. 30th, 2009
The Phoenix real estate market is experiencing significantly stronger buyer activity for the start of 2009 as compared to one year ago. The overall Valley is off to a solid start with “Pending” or under contract sales activity for the beginning of the year beating years 2006-8 and even slightly greater than that seen in [...]