Activity at the new house has been a lot like one of the older wooden rides at Six Flags. Sometimes it is slow and steady and a bit underwhelming and then when you are not expecting it, the pace picks up so dramatically that you just grab on scream a …

Here we are folks. This is the second week of work on the house and we are making solid progress. All floors have been ripped out, almost all doors have been removed and several walls have been demolished. Ceilings have been scraped, cabinets have been destroyed (even the ones we …

Here we go...

Opening it up.

The old kitchen.

View from what will be the corner of the kitchen.

Ceilings are mostly scraped.

Trees were also trimmed and or removed as well as stumps ground and we are getting rolling!  You …

Complaining about a few minor delays in the process of building a beautiful home on an almost ideal piece of land that you've been dreaming about for ten plus years would be ridiculous, so that won't happen here or anywhere else for that matter. We plan to start …

Hurry up and wait.  This is a game that we play when we have to wait on city permits, new plats, lenders, weather and our own darn excitement even though almost every ounce of our being wants to tear down the walls and get to the work of building …

So, the original plan was to remodel the current 1600ft house and resurrect the joke of a converted garage (400ish square feet more) to legitimate status and then possibly add on down the road.  Well, we sold the heck out of our existing house and pushed our cash budget …

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Dallas – June 21, 2012 – “Real estate in 2012 is a whole new ballgame compared to just five years ago …

A recent NAR (National Association of Realtors) report showed that pending contracts to buy homes were at an 18 month high.  The index of pending agreements rose to 100.1 in the month of November, a gain of 7.3%. An index of 100 is an indication of a healthy …

Long before I got into the real estate business I had always heard that is was better to buy rather than rent a home.  With the market across the country having it’s up and downs over the past couple of years many people are questioning that philosophy. 

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Many potential home buyers are putting off looking for the home of their dreams due to the over-all real estate market.  This is also the case for many people that fall into the generational segment know as “Gen Y or the Millennial Generation”.  Gen Y is not a …