Home Staging Tips

Home Staging Tips

Is Home Staging Important? An unfurnished home looks cold, empty, and unappealing. This cold look gives off a negative first impression.  Do you want your potential buyer’s first impression of a home you are trying to sell to be anything associated with feelings of coldness or emptiness?  You never get a second chance to make [...] Read more »

Austin Home Prices Continue to Increase

Austin Home Prices Continue to Increase

Austin Home Prices Continue To Increase Despite National Slump Nationally, average home prices continue trending downwards, falling 4.4% in August 2011 as compared to August 2010. Some cities, like Atlanta, GA., saw even greater declines. of over 7%. But here is Austin, things are much brighter, and it’s not just because we can’t get any [...] Read more »

The Latest Foreclosure Report for Austin, Texas

Latest foreclosure report for Austin

What Does the Latest Foreclosure Report for Austin, Texas Tell Us About the Real Estate Market? (September 28, 2011) There is good news bad news for the Austin real estate market. First, the good news:  the latest foreclosure report from the Foreclosure Listing Service Inc shows that foreclosure notices for this month are down 18.5% from [...] Read more »

August Home Sales Report for Austin, Texas

Home Sales Report for Austin, Texas

August Home Sales Report for Austin, Texas Shows Some Good News Austin home sales are up by 30% for the second consecutive month.  Here are some highlights from the Austin Board of Realtors report released earlier this month: According to the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) report released today by the Austin Board of REALTORS®, 1,978 [...] Read more »

Can I Sell A House with a Lease Option in Texas?

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Lease Option Is NOT an Option in Texas The Lease option used to be the ‘go to’ strategy for selling their house if the seller had little to no equity.  However, thanks to the Texas State Legislature, which despite only meeting every other year still manages to create inane rules and laws, the ability to [...] Read more »

What is a Loan Forbearance?

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Should I Pursue a Loan Forbearance? There is so much written in the media today about loan forbearance plans and loan modifications that many homeowners mistakenly consider these items as actual alternatives.  Quite frankly, I shy away from loan mods and loan forbearance plan because while they sound good in theory, in reality, they are [...] Read more »

What Does Shenoah Grove Know About Real Estate?

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About Shenoah Grove and Hippie Hollow Homes Anytime you are a consumer looking to buy and sell a house, or even if you’re looking to get into real estate and seeking a coach, mentor, or broker, the first question you should ask this person is ‘What do you know about real estate?’.  At Hippie Hollow [...] Read more »

Can I do A Short Sale Myself?

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Can a Homeowner Negotiate a Short Sale Themselves? The answer is ‘yes’ a homeowner can negotiate a short sale themselves.  The better question is can a homeowner negotiate a ‘successful’ short sale themselves?  That answer would probably be ‘no’. Most successful short sales, where a bank agrees to reduce, or ‘short’, the existing mortgage note [...] Read more »

The Hippie Hollow Homes Advantage

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What is the Hippie Hollow Homes Advantage? Many people ask me what the Hippie Hollow Homes advantage is.  Why is Hippie Hollow Homes a better option for people looking to buy and sell homes than other Austin and San Antonio Texas real estate companies? Hippie Hollow Homes Advantage | Who We Are Hippie Hollow Homes [...] Read more »

What is Hippie Hollow Homes?

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What Does Hippie Hollow Homes Mean? For those of you who are outside of Austin, Texas, you may not know what Hippie Hollow is.  Hippie Hollow is a ‘clothing optional’ beach that fits in with the ‘Keep Austin Weird’ philosophy of this great city.  We chose the name ‘Hippie Hollow Homes’ because our philosophy on [...] Read more »

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