Open House Ready

Selling your home can be an exciting yet stressful time during your life. The way your house is presented during the open house can make or break an offer from a potential buyer. Here are a few tips that can make an open house a bit easier and even lead to a great offer. 
Boost curb appeal -  Sometimes people won't even stop by to view the inside pf your home because they think it probably isn't even worth looking into because of the outside presentation. A few ways to improve the outside of your home is by Washing your front windows, mowing the lawn, power washing siding and walkways and even repainting the porch floor. 
Get your house spotless - not only do you need clean counters and shinny floors. you also need gleaming windows and a scrubbed grout. This is probably one of the cheapest and easiest things everyone in the family can help with. 
All clutter must go - all clutter must go, and that's the end of it. This could also lead to a loss of a sale. Not only is it to much clutter, it also makes your home seem smaller. So if you are serious about selling get rid of all excess and unnecessary things in the house. Using an offsite storage or borrowing storage from a friend or family member can make this transition easier.  
Open your closets - It is almost guaranteed that your visitors will peek inside closets and pantries. Use this as a selling point for your home. Even if this means storing some things in boxes or offsite, aim to have about 25 percent of open space. This will give an impression that the areas are spacious. 
Extra rooms -  If you have an extra bedroom that you use as a dump for everything else or it's simply vacant, clean it up! Think if things your potential buyers would like to see like an office apace or an extra guest bedroom. 

most importantly, enjoy the process. Even though it may seem like a lot of work, it is definitely an experience to enjoy. 

100% Intersection of Dallas TX

The Dallas area has a great example of expanding urbanization. It has been one of the tastes growing major metropolitan areas for more than a decade now.  It is one of three US metropolitan areas that added more than a million new residents between 2000 and 2010. Dallas is definetly a great place to live for both singles and families because there is so much to do. From all the great museums, tourist attractions, parks, and lakes dallas has a great amount of things to do.   Dallas- forth worth had a 23.4 growth rate coming second to Houston. The economic advance of Dallas's growing population depends upon public policies that favor housing affordability and urban expansion. If Dallas continues it's course it could possibly pass the Chicago poppulation by 2050 and could even challenge Los Angeles later in the century.    Due to it being a state bordering Mexico, the latino population in Dallas has grown substantially. Over all Latinos account for 43 percent of the growth.  

Great Apps for Homebuyers

Technology makes a lot of our every days activities easier and more convenient. Nowadays there is an app for everything, even for those in the market for a new home. There are mobile apps that allow you to search listings, calculate mortgage cost and even informs you of businesses and attractions nearby. Here are a few apps that I think are helpful and easy to use. 
Realtor.com, Trulia.com and Zillow.com all essentially do the same thing and provide the same services and are completely free. They all help you search for properties for sale. You can search for properties by zip code, price, features and even the age of a home. You can also search for listing activities such as open houses, new listings, and price reduction updates. Realtor.com is a favorite for realtors because it is updates every 15 minutes. 
There is also an app that can help you with realtor terms when searching for a home. Buying or selling a home can be complex so it it important to be able to keep up with real estate terms. This app has more than 3,000 real estate terms where you can quickly access them. This can be very helpful when you are speaking to someone about things like liability clauses and acceleration. Lastly, my favorite is the AroundMe app that uses your gps signal to identify where you are and shows you a list of nearby business and attractions including the distance from your current location. This is very helpful when looking for a home in a place that is unfamiliar to you.