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It's 2017 Fiscal Year-end Savings Time! Find New DFW Area KHOV Inventory Homes to Choose From!

Like with any new home clearance sale, the first buyers get the best deals and SELECTION to choose from. With Texas mortgage rates around 3.6-3.7%, this fiscal year-end sale when combined with ARG's large 3% New Home Buyer Cash Rebate, adds up to lots of extra new home savings IF you can close your new KHOV home by 10/31/2017! Conditions may apply, contact ARG for full rebate details and price negotiation assistance.

At ARG we're constantly scanning DFW New Home builders for exceptional new home buying opportunities for our new home buyers, like this fiscal year-end inventory clearance sale. With housing disasters in Houston and Florida draining labor

It's 2017 Year-end Savings Time! 100's of New DR Horton Homes to Choose From!

Like with any new home clearance sale, the first buyers get the best deals and SELECTION to choose from. With Texas mortgage rates around 3.6-3.7%, this Fiscal Year-end Sale when combined with ARG's 3% New Home Buyer Cash Rebate (2% for DR Horton Express Home Inventory), will add up to special savings for you! Conditions may apply, contact ARG for full rebate details and price negotiation assistance.

At ARG we're constantly scanning the DFW New Home horizon for exceptional new home deals for our new home buyers, like this 2017 fiscal year-end clearance sale. Having DFW's most powerful MLS search engine for finding New Homes, makes finding your new D.R. Horton Homes

Early estimates reveal that approximately 100,000 homes have been damaged or lost to Harvey. It is estimated that nearly 80% of affected homes were without flood insurance protection. The scope of the economic disaster is already estimated at being the most costly in U.S. History.

In five short days time, Houston received a year's worth of rain. Nearly no preemptive human measure could have prevented the massive floods, loss of life and sheer destruction that followed. We are in the first days of containment and recovery. Shelters are full, Texas citizens displaced, possessions lost and thousands of lives on hold.

Here in D/FW we are already seeing the effects of Harvey at 1000's of local gas stations. Fuel shortages have also spread to Austin and

Highland Homes at Star Trail Prosper starts "preselling" for its 55' and 65' home sites on Monday 8/28/17. Preselling events normally offer special pricing incentives to the first contracts written. Prices are not yet published, but are available and are expected to change once the official grand opening event is announced.

Star Trail Prosper is a Blue Star Land, Dallas Cowboys / Jerry Jones owned company. Blue Star Land has developed Starwood in Frisco, Star Creek in Allen and now the brand new ~900 acre community of Star Trail in Prosper.

Preselling will occur from a different location. Please contact ARG for pricing, lot selections and information about our commission Free Move-up or 3% cash rebate option that will add thousands of dollars in

(PENDING) PRICE REDUCTION!!! Busted contract, means opportunity time for this fast close ready and fully finished new home! Priced to sell at a rock bottom price of $378K! In addition to the low sales price, builder is offering to pay 2% of price in closing costs plus pay Title Policy (Saving you THOUSANDS ~$9K-10K in Closing Cost savings when you use Builder's in-house lender!!).

Plus ARG is offering a bonus sized 3.5% Buyer Cash Rebate (~$13,475), to further reduce your real net cost basis in your new home. That is a TON of incentives! This new home is situated on a 70x120' interior lot and reports to the Prosper ISD and can close in 30 days.

New Home Features Includes

• Stone & Brick Elevation with Front Porch and Large Rear Patio (that's

For the remainder of 2017 (according to Plantation/Coventry Homes), new home buyers can cash in on new DFW area Plantation or Coventry Homes, Additionally, ARG is able to offer 3.5% in additional rebate savings (versus 2%) on Plantation and Coventry inventory purchases, either completed or in construction. ARG can help you negotiate your new home purchase and if you have a home to sell, offer you our DFW Leading Commission FREE new home move-up (save all ~6%! Free Move-up in lieu of rebate option). Either way, you'll be THOUSANDS of dollars ahead when you make ARG your money saving agent!

Contact Mike at ARG

In the Market for a New Home? Perhaps it is Time to Take Advantage of Current Lower Pricing!! Perhaps it's time to Call Mike or simply

It's that time again to begin thinking about year end deals and that's where ARG can be a BIG help! Sure, it's only August, but several area DFW Home builders who can be found in the Metroplex's most popular master-planned communities, are getting aggressive and want to move completed inventory and are willing to deal NOW. Typically year end deals begin in October, but this year, builders want to get ahead of the power curve and are wanting inventory moved earlier, way before the year end deadline of 12/29/17.

Generally, with inventory clearance sales, the first buyers get the best selections and most aggressive discounts. In addition to all negotiated builder concessions, ARG offers new home buyers an additional 3% cash back or Free Move-up if you

Light Farms in Celina, TX has a number of preowned Highland and American Legend Homes priced THOUSANDS less than new! With pricing now below $400K for well appointed homes that are loaded with many sought after upgrades, maybe it is time to see what your real estate dollars can buy in Light Farms.

Light Farms offers some of the best resident amenities to be found of any modern Collin County 5 Star Master-planned community. If you are wanting to get the most for your real estate dollars, you really should visit Light Farms!

Where is Light Farms, Celina?

Planned 2017 Light Farms Master-plan Additions:

• Addition of a 5th HOA Pool
• A new Northside Regional Park with Lake, Dog Park, Camp Grounds and Paddle Boats
• A poolside Bar and

So you like Drees Homes, but would like to see a better price? Well, you might get your wish with Drees Homes "Make an OFFER" sale event that runs through the end of July (7/31). Now it is impossible to know exactly how much of a discount they will accept, but I was told, if the offer remotely makes sense, they will take it! This might be a good time to save some extra coin, beat any future interest rate increases and best of all, get to live in a gorgeous new Drees Home, sooner than later!

Add THREE with ARG (3% Cash Back Rebate, Plus ALL Drees Discounts!)

ARG Realtors can help you with your offer, negotiations, and even COMP reports to help educate you about recently SOLD homes. Then offer a 3% new home buyer cash rebate, or FREE Move-up if

Are you not finding the exact lifestyle fit in Barcelona McKinney? Need a true master-plan location, affordable pricing and a home ownership solution for your busy lifestyle? Well, perhaps it's time to visit Spicewood in Craig Ranch, where affordable and amazingly easy to maintain "Lifestyle" Series Darling and David Weekley Luxury Patio Homes await you! 

Craig Ranch is the home of McKinney's one and only PGA Golf Club, Cooper Fitness, hospital, medical offices, abundant retail, recreation and entertainment venues. This is a great location when you need to be minutes from everything including Tollway and modern highway access.

3% Cash Back or Free Move-up for Spicewood New Home Buyers!

Smart home buyers look for every advantage to save