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If you've been considering a new Drees Home and overall value are important to you, then it is time to plan to catch a specially priced Fiscal Year-end Drees new home in Dallas, Fort Worth. Each year Drees promotes "March Madness" sale, but the truth is buyers need more time, hence we're promoting in January!! Drees fiscal year-end is 3/31/2020, meaning "Q1" (Jan 1 - March 31, 2020) is Drees Homes 2019 "Q4," and Drees will be pushing hard to incentivize buyers and "Close" all their unsold new home inventory by 3/31/20. That means, if your New Year's plan for 2020 includes a new Drees home, then now is the right time to start planning your move.

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SOLD. The builder has one other home he will DEAL ON! Contract before 1/1/20 and you'll get a $72,000 price reduction, plus $17,200 Cash Back for a net cost basis of $412,800, or an $89,200 savings. Home is on a 61' lot and convenient to the 5 Acre Crystal Lagoon Pool. Top DFW Home Builder, and your chance to Ho-Ho all the way to the bank in your new Windsong Ranch, Prosper Home!

Home features 4 Beds, plus Study, 3.5 Baths, Kitchen-Great-room, oversized garage, tons of wood floors, a pool-sized backyard and all the amenities of Windsong Ranch!

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In a world where money changes hands digitally and globally at the speed of light, scammers in increasing numbers are looking for any vulnerabilities to exploit, including spoofing phone numbers of real estate agents. The bottom line, you should never transmit or wire funds to anyone unless you are 100% sure you have that financial institution's correct routing information and have called to verify with the party requesting the wire using a known phone number.

I think we all know that location is the one key element that gives real estate its special value. That is why St. Andrews Park just East of the Allen Event Center, Top Golf, tons of shopping and restaurants, might be your perfect new home location solution if you don't want to travel further north and desire to be part of a convenient lifestyle. With just 30 lots remaining, KB Homes has several affordable, energy-efficient floorplans ready for you. This community won't last long.

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Just when you think you've seen everything from area new home builders, Perry Homes raises the bar on both style and floorplan with their gorgeous 1 story model home located in the master-planned community of Liberty in beautiful Melissa. 

Looking to change addresses? Have a home to sell? Why not move and save 50% or more on MLS listing commissions with an agency that boasts a 95% success rate selling our MLS Listings. ARG offers rebates if you're just buying. Either way, you come out ahead. Check out the incentives you get with ARG.

Homes Are Selling Quickly [INFOGRAPHIC]

Some Highlights:

• The National Association of REALTORS® surveyed its members for the release of their Confidence Index.
• The REALTORS® Confidence Index is a key indicator of housing market strength based on a monthly survey sent to over 50,000 real estate practitioners. Practitioners are asked about their expectations for home sales, prices, and market conditions.
• Homes across the country are selling quickly, in an average of just 31 days.
• 49% of homes sold in less than a month.

Additional Seller Information Resources

• Thinking About Selling? Time to Plan Ahead
• Seller Tips From a Proven DFW Listing Agent
• The Real Cost of a "Home Buy-Out Offer" is Your Home Equity
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If you're a new home buyer you don't want to guess, you want to KNOW where the deals are and what homes are selling for. Realtor® Mike Askins at ARG can help you negotiate any home for sale, regardless of its current price and offer a Cash Rebate up to 4%. I want to help you find the deal you can say YES to!

The "Friends and Family" sale event at D.R. Horton is in full swing. in the DFW East Division (East of I-35) is in full swing and ends on 10/18/2019. Like all sales events by new home builders, they are subject to change without notice, so time is of the essence if you're wanting to save some additional coin.

DR Horton offers modern, energy-efficient and more affordable homes backed by a very involved home buyer warranty.

Builder is offering the following "Friends and Family" Sales Incentives:

Price discounts, per community on Inventory Homes.

• Garage Door Opener
• New Refrigerator
• New Washer and Dryer
• New Window Blinds
• May include safe, 3 months home security monitoring
• May include "smart home," seasonal flowers, home

Let's face it Mustang Lakes is a cool place to live. The PID, not so much. Over the last 3 years, various Texas Appraisal Districts have become drunk with property over-taxation. It is so blatant a tax swipe, you almost pray a modern-day Robin Hood would show up and fight for the good guys. And so eliminating the PID is a step in the right direction.

While we wait on Robin Hood, Highland Homes has just announced for future homebuyers of its 60's series homes, to buy out the PID tax. For 60 series home buyers, that is a $28,137 payment and big-time savings, and means your annual taxes just dropped to standard property tax rates. But the savings do not stop there, because Fiscal Year-end SAVINGS is where the best deals of the year are had. Just