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Great homes in Carrollton, Plano, Frisco, Richardson, McKinney, Denton & Dallas.

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2010 

Carrollton Texas is a suburb of Dallas, population around 120,000. Carrollton was selected as the 19th best place to live in the United States by Money magazine. The city just opened three new DART light rail stops, one of which is in our "Old" Downtown area. Actually, we should call it just Down...
12/30/2010
Carrollton Texas is a suburb of Dallas, population around 120,000. Carrollton was selected as the 19th best place to live in the United States by Money magazine. The city just opened three new DART light rail stops, one of which is in our "Old" Downtown area. Actually, we should call it just Down...
12/30/2010
Carrollton Texas is a suburb of Dallas, population around 120,000. Carrollton was selected as the 19th best place to live in the United States by Money magazine. The city just opened three new DART light rail stops, one of which is in our "Old" Downtown area. Actually, we should call it just Down...
12/30/2010
So here's a little ActiveRain loophole. I didn't do this, but I had it happen to me. I don't know if it's ethical or what but it exists. The names are obviously changed. Realtor Amy is an ActiveRain blogger in MajorCity USA. She has about 65,000 points and has no chance of catching the bloggers w...
12/29/2010
A few days ago I posted a blog about Brokerages who are represented only by their initials. We all know who I'm talking about. But today I have another question. A lot of the big franchise offices are licensed as something as nondescript as "ABC Metro Homes" but that name doesn't appear on their ...
12/29/2010
This is a great blog about what's happening to real people in America.  Sad but true.  We have to understand that people need to benefit more than multinational corporations. At the time when the credit card bill would soon become law, the credit card companies decided to really whack everyone's ...
12/28/2010
When looking at homes or townhouses, I always recommend to my clients that they get a new survey and not accept the seller's existing survey, even if the seller signs an affidavit that the survey is accurate. Here's why -- You Own the Survey - This becomes important if there's ever a problem. Acc...
12/28/2010
I'm going to try to write this without naming large, nationwide brokerages but I think you'll know what I'm saying. The name of my brokerage is Texas Pride Realty. If I made signs and fliers and websites with simply the initials TPR I believe I would be in violation both of the Texas Real Estate ...
12/28/2010
Every month I hold a dinner meeting for people interested in Greening up their homes. We've had moderate turn out (between 4 to 10 people per meeting). We meet at a local diner (Cafe Brazil in Carrollton, TX) and share green ideas and business contacts. We talk about everything from simple projec...
12/27/2010
As a broker I find it disturbing that agents feel so free to walk over or ignore company policy.  I'm having a meeting in early January to go over the Code of Ethics, the updated Texas Contracts and our updated company policies.  I hope every broker will. HOW INDEPENDENT ARE YOU?  AS INDEPENDENT ...
12/27/2010
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