Reba Saxon's (saxon) Blog

People often call our office looking for a lease-purchase. The thing is, we don't do those in Texas much. Which is usually fine with them once they learn more about it, so I thought I would blog on it. A TRUE lease-purchase is one in which the tenant-buyer is under contract to purchase the home a...

The hot button here in Round Rock today is the new school district boundaries. Lots of folks are upset that they bought a house so that their kids could go to a specific school, and now they have to move or go to a different school. Well, for one thing, nothing is done yet and there are 3 differe...

How did I get here? I dabbled in investing in the late 90s, actually making a whole lot of money on one penny stock that I followed, some guys in Los Alamos I saw in the local paper who were working on hydrogen cells. I followed popular advice, diversified and lost it all. There were companies, b...

Among several deals happening this week, I had dumped in my lap a new foreclosure listing. Now, I always like to have more listings, and I have cultivated listings from "REO"s, industry slang for "real-estate-owned" by lenders.  And the time was that they were great deals when you got them as lis...