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If you are house hunting and own an Android or iPhone, you definitely need to install the Zillow app. In short, if you are looking in a neighborhood looking at a house, you can use the Zillow app to get estimated pricing for all of the other houses in the area (or the actually listed …

I added a few more Houston area real estate professionals to our Twitter directory today. We are now up to 229 members in the directory now. By default, I am tagging the members by their location in Twitter if one exists. I have also manually tagged some members with additional tags when requested to do …

After spending way too much time scouring the internet looking for a nice neighborhood overview map of the Houston and / or Cypress areas without any luck, I decided to start my own. This map has a rough outline of the Cy-Fair School District borders. My next task is to include individual neighborhood borders within …

As a follow-up to my Comcast vs DIRECTV vs DISH Network vs EnTouch post from yesterday, I got DIRECTV installed at my house in Coles Crossing today and am happy to report that the process went very smoothly. I had setup my install time to be between 8:00 and 12:00 this morning.  My installer, Dave, …

UPDATE:  I created a poll to see if there are any providers out there that people actually like. CLICK HERE UPDATE 2: We received our DirectTV Costco gift card about 5 weeks after setting up service.  So we were able to get both the $100 referral discount plus the $180 Costco gift card and no …

The Wall Street Journal had an article today about 10 Reasons To Buy a Home.  Those reasons are: You can get a good deal Mortgages are cheap You’ll save on taxes It’ll be yours You’ll get a better home It offers some inflation protection It’s risk capital It’s forced savings There is a lot to choose …

With the doom and gloom coming out recently about the housing market, I decided to compare a few major markets across the US using average $/sqft sale pricing from Trulia. What first caught my eye is how amazingly cheap housing is in Houston.  Even after the market crash, according to Trulia data, a house in …

When people compare their house to other houses in their area or neighborhood (also known as a CMA or Competitive Market Analysis), by default they compare the following attributes: Square footage Number of Bedrooms Number of Bathrooms This is a good start, but there are other features in a house you should keep in mind …

This is an interesting article from Monday’s Houston Chronicle stating that the government should not try to stimulate the housing market again with another tax rebate program. Shock therapy: Some say let housing market crash | Business | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle. The article starts out with this: The unexpectedly deep plunge in home sales …

As I mention on the About page, I’m a big fan of researching and analyzing purchases, and it just so happens that there are a TON of criteria to consider when researching a home purchase.  Lucky for us, there are a lot of tools on the web to help us with that research. HAR.com ”Find A …