…If it’s important to you, it’s important to us. When buying or selling a home, you deserve a Realtor who’ll take the time to listen, find out what’s important to you, and put your interests first.
If you’re thinking of buying or selling, please share
your goals with me. In turn, I’ll share my success with you.
- Cathy Lagravier
Visit Hilltop Lakes Resort City and we will be glad to give you the Grand Tour. This will include showing you ALL properties for sale here including the ones on this website. We have four agents available to help you including myself. The other agents are John Lagravier, Annie Earp, and Don Sorrells.
Before you begin your home search at REALTOR.com, prepare yourself by reading Ten Steps to Homeownership.
Even before you begin looking for a home, the homebuying process requires diligent preparation. Buyers who have been preapproved for a home loan often have their offers taken more seriously by sellers. With advance preparation, you can tackle the process of acquiring the financing you need with more confidence. To help you on the path to homeownership, NeighborWorks® offers* step-by-step guides, developed by the Fannie Mae Foundation, that can help you get closer to achieving your dream:
Home Buyer Tax Credit Extension for Some Military Members, Foreign Service Members and Intelligence Community
Posted by Tina Merritt on 4/8/2010 at 2:21 PM
As the existing home buyer tax credit winds down (purchases must be under contract by April 30th and closed by June 30, 2010), many are wondering if there will be another extension.
As of now, the only extension has been granted to certain members of the military, the foreign service and the intelligence community.
For qualified service members who are ordered on a period of official extended duty, the tax credit dates are extended for one year. The purchase contract must be dated by April 30, 2011 and closed by June 30, 2011.
Also, this extension applies to a service member who is forced to return to the U.S. for medical reasons before completing an assignment of at least 90 days of official extended duty outside the U.S.
How does the Code of Ethics affect everyday real estate practices?
If a REALTOR® represents you, whether you are buying or selling a home, you can count on that REALTOR® to:
1. Be honest with all parties in the transaction – not just with you, as his or her client, but also with the other real estate practitioner and his or her clients.
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As you begin your house hunting, it helps to keep straight the various terms for real estate licensees.
Agent is a general term for anyone empowered to act for another. Many agents you meet have been hired by the seller and have special fiduciary duties to the seller (more on that important point later.)
Broker is a legal term for someone licensed by the state to negotiate real estate transactions and to charge for services.
Salesperson is the term for the holder of an entry-level license; a salesperson is allowed to assist a broker who is legally responsible for a salesperson’s activities. In some areas the word agent may be used for a salesperson, as opposed to a broker. A salesperson may not operate without supervision and may collect fees only from the sponsoring broker as a share of commissions earned by the salesperson’s efforts. In a new home purchase, the salesperson or builder sales consultant is generally employed by the builder to sell new home neighborhoods, with a license usually overseen by a “broker of record” within the building organization.
REALTOR® is a trademark designation (properly capitalized, like Xerox, Kleenex or Coke) for a broker (in some areas a salesperson) who belongs to a private organization called the local Association, or Board, of REALTORS®, a state board of REALTORS®, and the National Association of REALTORS®. REALTORS® subscribe to a code of ethics that goes beyond state license law, and usually sponsor a local Multiple Listing System, which offers access to houses listed for sale by many different firms.
Prices bottom, mortgage rates increase, and foreclosures move upstream
By LUKE MULLINS
Posted: December 21, 2009
Is 2010 the year to buy a house? It certainly looks that way: After a steep run-up in prices during the first half of the decade, home values have plummeted back to 2003 levels. Fixed mortgage rates are sitting near record lows. And the foreclosure epidemic—while painful for many home owners—has created some wonderful opportunities for bargain hunters. If that’s not enough, Uncle Sam is handing out thousands of dollars in tax credits to nearly all first-time buyers and the bulk of existing home owners who close a purchase by June.
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