Attention Plano and Frisco lovers- below is a question from a family looking to relocate to the Plano/Frisco area with my responses in red. Which city is better in your opinion?                                                                                                                                                                Ok. A little background before my questions. We are likely relocating to the Dallas area this summer. We have lived in Dallas once before, in [...]

Today is the kind of day that I’m grateful that my job takes me away from my office about half of the day.  As fun as it is monkey punching the keyboard here on the blog and other “fun hangouts” in the virtual world, I prefer to meet and spend time with real people.  I [...]

Thinking about buying new construction in Plano or the greater Dallas area?  You might want to read this first, State-Sought Home Fixes Rarely Made.   This was a recent article posted in the Dallas Morning News regarding the track record of area builders that is worth a read.  It looks like some of the bigger area builders [...]

Now on Youtube!  This was fun to shoot and we had a good time with it. Speaking of videos, moving forward all of Covenant Realty’s listings will be going up on Youtube as well.  Do you have a house in Suburbia or the Dallas area you are looking to place on the market? This is just one of [...]

When it comes to evaluating the value of a property there are more ways than meet the eye; like beauty, the value of a property is often in the eye of the beholder. Savvy buyers and investors use several of the following methods to determine if the price is right: Comps: Comparing a property to [...]

Though I’ve practiced real estate for a little more than two years, I come from a family of real estate agents in the Dallas area. I can say that there is good reason that people have reservations about working with an agent. This is partly due to the lack of understanding people have about what we [...]

As the winter months approach in the Dallas Texas area, I am reminded again that it’s good to be a Texan. Yes, my tennis playing days of the year will get a lot more scarce than in the harvest of Spring and Summer, but it will be made up for with golfing adventures in December, [...]

According to the National Association of Realtors, pending home sales increased 6.3% in December as more buyers took advantage of the more affordable conditions. NAR President Charles McMillan, a broker with Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in Dallas Fort Worth real estate market, said the rise in contract signings is encouraging. “However, housing activity remains weak [...]

The dream of the older generation was to pay off a mortgage. The dream of today’s families is to get one! Fortunately, for first time home buyers, a small crumb has fallen out of America’s overly stimulated stimulus package into the hands of the people that have done the right thing consistently, you! The homebuyer [...]