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New Home Buyer Advice

One of the most important services we provide is advice for new home buyers. In this blog we discuss common issues, tips, things to avoid, and builder info. Whether it's builder related, 'must have' features or common pitfalls, we'll try and cover it here.

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When you search for a new home on texasnewhomerebates.com, you have special sort filters that allow you to quickly rearrange search results, and in this case, to help you find the the oldest new home listings first based upon DOM (Days on Market in MLS). Knowing this information can improve your bargaining power as no builder wants a completed new home to sit for an indefinite period of time. Each month a SPEC or Inventory Home sits, the builder's margin' decreases about 1% and so builders often will deal on a home to end their margin erosion and to get the home off their books and this is even more important during a builder's fiscal year sale.

When you use the right tools, you can gain leverage.

EXAMPLE: Looking for a New Highland Home in

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You know it really is not difficult to do this job right. It takes the right mental attitude, attention to detail, a caring personality and the willingness to work. With that said why do so many listing agents from some of the biggest brokerage names, insist on listing their client's homes incorrectly in MLS?

How the Public MLS System Works

The number one question sellers need to ask of their prospective listing agent is this, how do buyers FIND their listing in MLS? The answer is rather simple actually, buyers enter their individual search criteria into any number of real estate websites and if your home fits their inputted description, you're on the short LIST! Unfortunately with many listing agents today, your home never makes "the list" because

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Will Technology Cause Real Estate Servicecs to Rise?

There may be storm clouds forming on the time horizon, one that could exact a major cost toll on the North American Real Estate Services industry and of course consumers who will be footing the bill. Instead of a free and open internet working to increase competition among Real Estate service providers and drive down costs, lead generation middlemen are instead trying to repackage the services of others, taking a big cut of the financial pie for themselves, while doing their best to convince consumers by obfuscation of the facts that they can help them save money! Well I'm calling Balderdash!

The fact is, when middlemen lead generation referral companies insert themselves into the financial vein of real estate services, consumers will ultimately

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The value of an experienced Realtor® is not just in a cool rebate, but in the value of the advice they can offer you in an effort to keep you from making a large financial mistake you will later regret. The DFW housing market has been busy, and quality has suffered as a result even from some of the better brands, but there are ways to buy right and build right if you know the steps you need to take to protect your new home investment. With ARG we can help you understand those steps and provide experienced assistance if and when problems occur.

Texas is by and large a very unregulated State with regards to new residential construction. As a result builder quality and integrity can vary greatly and that should worry new home buying consumers.

For

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Confused over the cost of real estate services?For years there has been a general level of confusion within the residential real estate services industry concerning home buyer commission rebates, what they mean to consumers and how they help the industry offer a more cost savings solution to the high cost of real estate services. On one side you have consumers who are demanding lower cost (when did that not ever be the case?) for services and on the other the other side industry trade groups who want to protect higher cost structures.

Depending upon who you talk to, it seems you'll get a different answer.

As a result of the confusion concerning competition in real estate services, general competitive business rights and basic consumer rights, I have pointed my clients to the United States

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