Ronda Allen's (rondawiseallen) Blog

This is Texas.  Bigger is better, right?  This is Prosper, Texas.  Home of the McMansion.  Big, beautiful homes average more than 3500sf on great big lots.  3-car garages are pretty much the norm here.  But, you can also find homes with more garage spaces.  Attached garages and detached garages. ...

This coming weekend, Friday 8/20 through Sunday 8/22, is tax-free weekend in Texas.  We won't be having our weekly resale home tour of Prosper, TX homes this weekend, and we won't be holding any open houses.  Why?  Everybody will be at the malls and restaurants.  I've tried holding open homes and...

What would happen if your home were mis-priced by $100, $10, or even just $1?  What if that amount caused a error so big that your home sat on the market, with only a trickling of showings, for six months to a year or longer?  We have fewer buyers in DFW than we did in 2007.  It's fact.  Even tho...

In one home tour this past Sunday, we toured 12 homes, and 4 of the 12 had errors on the MLS data.  The MLS is a software program, and anytime you have manual input, you have the possibility for human error.  But, when can that slight error be causing your home to be skipped on a buyer's home tou...

When I ask around to other agents in DFW about using twitter.com as a marketing tool, I don't find many who admit to doing it.  When I use http://www.search.twitter.com to run searches, their statements are confirmed.  There seem to be very few of us actively using this tool to make people aware ...

As a home buyer moving to a new area, it can be hard to know how to ask the right questions.  Agents don't always make the search easy on you.  Sometimes, you get exactly what you ask for.  The problem with that is, you don't always see every home that may have interested you.  The example I want...

Once again, Prosper, Texas is heading into the Fall season in BALANCED market conditions.  A balanced real estate market is defined as one with approximately six month's worth of available housing inventory.  We're right there.  I predict we'll stay balanced going into the 4th quarter, as new lis...

Did you read the subject of my blog and think "I didn't know real estate agent's made a salary?".  We don't.  Self-employed.  Freelance contractors.  Whatever you want to call it.  We are on our own when it comes to making our way in this industry, just like every other small business owner.  But...

It was true last year at this time in Prosper, Texas, I predicted it at the beginning of 2010, and it's proving true again this year.  In 3rd quarter, we are limited on available builder spec home options, and the best overall values going into the final quarter of 2010 are actually in the resale...

Back by request - here is my blog from earlier this Summer - and it's still true:There is NO unsellable home in Prosper, TX in 2010! Are you panicked, because the days on market field on the MLS is upwards of 90 days, 120 days, 180 days, 365 days?  The longer a home stays on the market, the more ...