Love? Not Actually… Steps to Protect Yourself from Cybercrime
Welcome to the first article in a series from Independence Title on how to keep yourself, your devices, and your transactions safe from cybercrime. Check out the bottom of the […]
Read More of Love? Not Actually… Steps to Protect Yourself from Cybercrime >>It’s the End of the (Paper) World As We Know It…and We Feel Fine!
As paper disappears more and more from our daily lives, the real estate industry sometimes seems like one of the last vestiges of ink-and-paper transactions. These days you can buy […]
Read More of It’s the End of the (Paper) World As We Know It…and We Feel Fine! >>“If Only I Had Known …”
This is the refrain repeated by so many home buyers who lost or almost lost their savings from a wire fraud attempt during the process of buying a home: “If […]
Read More of “If Only I Had Known …” >>The Sky Is Not Falling. Mark Sprague’s Texas Market Update
The unemployment rate has hit a new low — 3.7 percent — that was last seen in December of 1969. Of course, things were a little different in the late […]
Read More of The Sky Is Not Falling. Mark Sprague’s Texas Market Update >>Is the Texas Market Still Booming? Mark Sprague’s Texas Market Update
The Texas metros housing markets have certainly been booming over the last several years. But as I’ve said before, the concern is when is the slowdown? Is it imminent, in a […]
Read More of Is the Texas Market Still Booming? Mark Sprague’s Texas Market Update >>The Billion-Dollar Industry Threatening Real Estate Transactions – How to Protect Yourself
by Cassandra Majors Pop Quiz: What industry grew by almost a billion dollars from 2016 to 2017? Hints: You wouldn’t want to invest in it, there are no publicly traded […]
Read More of The Billion-Dollar Industry Threatening Real Estate Transactions – How to Protect Yourself >>Lumber Prices are Rising! Mark Sprague’s Texas Market Update
By Mark Sprague, Independence Title State Director of Information Capital The House / Apartment You Look at Today Will Be Gone Tomorrow! And it will certainly be more expensive. Not […]
Read More of Lumber Prices are Rising! Mark Sprague’s Texas Market Update >>Carbon Monoxide Detectors: Now a City of Austin Requirement
By Cassandra Majors After I smoked my last cigarette five years ago, I quickly mutated into a twitchy, manic, raging lunatic for the next two weeks. I came up with […]
Read More of Carbon Monoxide Detectors: Now a City of Austin Requirement >>Does Your Social Media Need A TREC Check Up?
Is it us or do the TREC requirements for posting the IABS and Consumer Protection Notice on social media seem a little confusing? “So what exactly DOES TREC want from […]
Read More of Does Your Social Media Need A TREC Check Up? >>The MUD Mystery
There’s one sentence in one section of the contract that always ruffles everyone’s feathers whenever we teach our class Navigating the 1-to-4 Family Contract. The last sentence of section 6 […]
Read More of The MUD Mystery >>It’s a Weird, Weird World of Real Estate Out There
Texas real estate can be pretty weird. In the rest of the country, for example, the idea of paying a seller a small fee in exchange for giving the potential […]
Read More of It’s a Weird, Weird World of Real Estate Out There >>You’re Killing Me, Sales!
By Cassandra Majors Whether or not you were the right age to see the cult classic coming-of-age movie The Sandlot, you’ve probably had this iconic line thrown at you whenever […]
Read More of You’re Killing Me, Sales! >>Mommy, Where Do Buyers Come From?
By Cassandra Majors, Independence Title Well, honey, you see…when two people love each other very, very much, sometimes the Home-Buying Stork brings them their very own bundle of joy…along with […]
Read More of Mommy, Where Do Buyers Come From? >>Closing Costs….Who’s Responsible?
Every agent knows the excitement of clients purchasing a new home or clients finally selling their house. Then your clients ask you “What am I responsible for paying for at […]
Read More of Closing Costs….Who’s Responsible? >>Beware! Wire Fraud is at an All Time High.
You’ve done it! You took a Buyer from shopping for a house, to a contract on a house, to the closing table and you couldn’t be more ecstatic for them. Then… in total shock you find out […]
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