When new home buyers in Fort Worth and Dallas... and Frisco, McKinney, Carrollton, and all the surrounding new home hotspots... want the best choice of Brand New Homes... they know that New Home Hunters DFW is where to go !  They will find new homes there that may not be available anywhere else.

Being represented by a Realtor when purchasing does not cost you, the buyer, any additional costs whatsoever.  Each New Home Builder already has an overall marketing budget, so there is no charge to the Buyer.  And... when having Karen Anne represent you in your new home purchase, you have the added advantage of working with a Realtor who also has over ten years of experience previously working for new home builders.  Karen Anne knows the "inside scoop" which can save you thousands of dollars in your New Home Purchase.

Karen Anne constantly surveys all of Tarrant County for the latest New Homes, and shares the "cream of the crop" on her website.  Many homes have already been completed.  Karen Anne is ready to wrap up your favorite New Home with a Big Red Bow... just for you.

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This is not just a website for one particular builder.  Karen Anne's "picks" for the prettiest, coolest, absolute best values available in Today's New Home Market are from all the New Home Builders throughout Tarrant and southern Denton County... and the entire DFW Metroplex.  Come see what the excitement is all about.

In Many Cases, new home financing is available for all types of buyers.  Even with the current mortgage situation, zero-down financing is still available, and with many of the mortgage financing plans, the Builder will pay most if not all of the Buyer's Closing Costs.

Make sure when you talk with Karen Anne... that you ask her about her new "Buyer Relocation Benefits" program.

Even though each of the new homes pictured on Karen Anne's "New Home Hunters DFW" website is built in a specific area that is mentioned in the home information, many of the homes can be built "just for you" in many other areas throughout the Greater Fort Worth area... so if the area listed does not work for you, other areas are available.  Please call the New Homes Hotline at (817) 929-3400.

One of the things I enjoy doing... is snooping... or maybe "scouting" is a better word... scouting around all the new home neighborhoods that are pretty well sprinkled all around the Fort Worth area.

Today I came upon a really great new model.   It is a pretty exciting "find"... in my opinion.  I've got a preliminary picture that I want to share.  The model isn't quite finished yet... that's why you see a lovely dirt lawn in front of this model... but I was so excited... I wanted to get online as soon as I could.

     (Unfinished model !)

Also... I have included below a picture of this same home... which is currently a "finished model" in a different DFW neighborhood... just to see what it will look like in about three weeks.

Here is a "walking-thru" description of this model home.  This looks like it is really going to be a great one story home.  I really like the way it is set up inside.  It's a great floor plan arrangement.

As you enter, there is a cool room at the left of the entryway... great for a den or office... and great for someone who works a lot from home.

Just a little further in ... there's a great area that will be set up in the model as a dining room.  If it were my home... I think I would probably use it as a second living area... rather than a formal dining.

The kitchen set-up is quite spacious.  Lots of cabinets and counter space, an island for food prep... and a nice breakfast area that should pretty well take care of all of your dining needs... should you want to use the formal dining area as a second living area.

Off the kitchen area is a very nice family room with a great stone-accented wood burning fireplace.  The home has a split-master arrangement with the master at the back, and also two additional bedrooms.

If you wanted... and have a need for a fourth bedroom... the front den/office room could easily be a fourth bedroom.  It has been more of a tendency recently, I have seen, that many buyers would use the fourth bedroom as a den/office anyway... so this home works out great for that.  Pricing-wise... since the model is not yet open... I think this home is going to end up in the mid-130's price range... perhaps $135,990 or so.

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When you're ready to go from "just browsing" to "let's get serious"... give Karen Anne Stone a call at her New Home Hotline at (817) 929-3400.  Also... when I get some interior photos... I will put this on my website at www.NewHomeHuntersDFW.com .  Please come take a look... you'll be glad you did !

If you have been looking for a new home in the Dallas/Fort Worth area for awhile, and are waiting for the interest rates to go down even further... I have something that should really interest you.  Don't wait any longer !

One of the many New Home Builders I work with has just come up with a special financing plan (hot of the press just yesterday) that is really fabulous.

The current interest rates out on the open market are hovering right around the mid-sixes... six and one half per cent to six and five-eighths percent.

This special interest rate program I am sharing with you is a thirty-year fixed interest rate program... that is fixed from years 3 through year 30 at FIVE and Seven-Eighths percent.

But... here is the really cool part.  The first two years of the mortgage plan have bee "bought down" by the builder.  So... the first year is 3.875 %.  The second year is 4.875 %.  And... as I mentioned above... years three thru thirty is fixed at 5.875 %.

This is NOT an ARM.  It is a thirty-year fixed interest rate program.

For more information about this incredible program, please call the New Home Hotline at (817) 929-3400.  Or, you may email me, Karen Anne, at KarenAnneStone@gmail.com.

If you have been looking for a new home in Frisco, Texas... and have looked in Panther Creek... you know how expensive the homes in that neighborhood are.

In my endless search for excellent values for my new home buyers, I bring to you a really great home... not inside, but just on the edge of Panther Creek. It has all the goodies listed below, and is priced at $237,000.

This great home is 3350 Sq Ft, and has four bedrooms, three and one-half baths, and two living and two dining areas.  It is in the highly sought-after Frisco ISD, too.  The front presents a pretty streetscape with its brick and stone, and the triple covered porch areas... on the left, at the entry, and over one of the garage doors.

Besides the brick and stone exterior, some of the other features include a downstairs master suite, the extended front porch in front of the living room, large secondary bedrooms, large walk-in closets in all bedrooms, over-sized game room, 42 inch kitchen cabinets in the gourmet kitchen, hard-surface counter tops, crown molding, and a stone fireplace.

For you very own personal tour of this fabulous home... call the New Homes Hotline at (817) 929-3400.  Take a look... and then Call The Movers !

I just wanted to brag just a little bit about my Honda CRV and the incredible gas mileage I am getting with it.

The Honda CRV is a "crossover" SUV that is built on the same chassis (they call it a 'platform') as the Honda Civic is.  So... that gives you a bit of an idea about how nice and roomy it is inside.  Enough headroom for my poofy Texas hair :)

Gas prices are coming down.  I passed several gas stations today and noticed that regular is selling for $3.34 a gallon.  That is like seventy cents lower than it was about a month ago.  Cool !

Anyhow... on with my brag.  I drive quite a bit... specializing in New Home Sales as I do.  So... I can easily drive between 125 and 175 miles a day... and really not go anywhere... LOL.  Just all around Tarrant County... which is the county that Fort Worth, Texas is in.

Above you will see a picture I took of my dashboard odometer today that shows my gas mileage.  Notice right in the middle... towards the top.  There it is... 30.0 miles per gallon.  Incredible.  By the way... my CRV is a 2007... and I took delivery of it on July 14, 2007.  Right now I have about 27,000 miles on it.  All that... and I never go anywhere... LOL.

Just for fun, I looked up on the Honda website to see what kind of mileage is being quoted on the current CRV's.  It quotes 22 in the city and 27 on the open road.  Somehow... with my own personal brand of non-aggressive driving... I have ended up getting 30.0 MPG.  I just felt so good about it, I wanted to share it... just in case anyone on Active Rain is looking for a crossover SUV with decent gas mileage.

Happy Car Shopping !

Open House at Saddle Club in McKinney, Texas... Sunday August 24, 2008 from 1:00pm to 6:00pm.

It's the end of the builders fiscal year, and this gorgeous home has been reduced by $17,000.  It has three spacious bedrooms, split master, two full baths, formal living and formal dining plus eat in gourmet kitchen and family room.  The builder wants this home closed by the end of September, and so had reduced it from $207,990 to an incredible price (considering it is in prime McKinney) of $190,990.

This wonderful home is totally complete and ready for move-in.  If you need down payment assistance, it is available... but only if you close by September 30, 2008.  The down payment assistance programs (DPA) expire per a recently passed bill that the House and Senate passed, and the President signed.

For more information, and to schedule a time to see this really sharp home, call Sara Braden at (817) 703-7272.  Sara will guide you to the home.  You'll really enjoy Sara.  IF you look up the words customer service in the dictionary, a picture of Sara will be in the illustration.  :)  Make sure you tell Sara you saw this home on the internet.

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Directions: From Preston and 121, take 121 east to Lake Forest, north on Lake Forest to first light.  Left on McKinney Ranch, and about a mile down McKinney Ranch will be Saddle Club on your left.  Please ask for Sara Braden... she will be waiting for you.  Sara can be reached at (817) 703-7272.

Open House at Saddle Club in McKinney, Texas... Sunday August 24, 2008 from 1:00pm to 6:00pm.

It happens every year.  Builders all over the DFW Metroplex find themselves looking the end of their fiscal year... right between the eyes.

If you would like to take advantage of some of the end-of-the-fiscal-year bargains that builders offer right around now... here is a great one to consider.

This gorgeous two-story home has been reduced by $15,000.  It has three spacious bedrooms, split master, two and one-half baths, formal living and formal dining plus eat in gourmet kitchen and family room.

The builder wants this home closed by the end of September, and so has reduced it from $213,990 to an incredible price (considering it is in prime McKinney) of $198,990.

 This wonderful home is totally complete and ready for move-in.  If you need down payment assistance, it is available... but only if you close by September 30, 2008.  The down payment assistance programs (DPA's) expire per a recently passed bill that the House and Senate passed, and the President signed.

For more information, and to schedule a time to see this really sharp home, call Sara Braden at (817) 703-7272.  Sara will guide you to the home.  You'll really enjoy Sara.  IF you look up the words customer service in the dictionary, a picture of Sara will be in the illustration.  :)  Make sure you tell Sara you saw this home on the internet.

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Directions:  From Preston and 121, take 121 east to Lake Forest, north on Lake Forest to first light.  Left on McKinney Ranch , and about a mile down McKinney Ranch will be Saddle Club on your left.   Please ask for Sara Braden... she will be waiting for you.  Sara can be reached at (817) 703-7272.

Open House at Saddle Club in McKinney, Texas... Sunday August 24, 2008 from 1:00pm to 6:00pm.

September 30 is the final day of the season... the last day of the month, quarter and fiscal year for this builder.  In order to get there... some sacrifices have to be made.  Someone has to give.

So... here was have a charming and exquisite two-story home... excellent drive up appeal with triple eyebrow windows on the front right side, a triple window with a center eyebrow window... and a covered porch completed by a high large eyebrow window at the top.  Great architectural touches make this streetscape one your across-the-street neighbors will thank you for.

We've got three bedrooms, two and one-half baths, a large gourmet kitchen with lots of built-ins, a Family Room and a Game room.  What a great setting for all those Cowboy parties starting in September !  Also, the fact that this is a rear-entry home takes all those cars and SUV's off the street... making for an even greater appeal.

At 2590 sq ft... this home was fairly priced at $230,990.  With it's prime McKinney location, it is a steal after being reduced by $12,000 to $218,990.

If you are ready to go from "Just Looking" to "Let's Get Serious..." call Sara Braden at (817) 703-7272 for your very own private showing.

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Directions:  From Preston and 121, take 121 east to Lake Forest, north on Lake Forest to first light.  Turn left on McKinney Ranch, and about a mile down McKinney Ranch is Saddle Club on your left.  Please ask for Sara Braden... she will be waiting for you.  Sara can be reached at (817) 703-7272

This gorgeous 2,720 sq ft four bedroom (with a possible fifth) two and one-half bath super two-story home is brand new on the market.  With the master bedroom being down, all three secondary bedrooms are upstairs, and all three of them are good-sized.  The largest bedroom of the three is a sixteen-footer, and the smallest up bedroom is 12 x 11... so there should be no fussing about who gets which bedroom.

Located in a great family neighborhood in Burleson, Texas... the drive-up appeal this home holds is just fabulous.  The full-width covered front porch is great for relaxing or chatting with the neighbors as they go walking by.

Sitting and relaxing reading the evening paper after work, or sharing fun stories with the neighbors makes for a very relaxing front porch evening, too.

Once inside, the over-sized foyer welcomes you.  On the right side of the foyer is a den/study/home office with double french doors and a good-sized interior closet.

If you don't need a home office, this room would make a great fifth bedroom.  Opposite this room is the formal dining room.  It's very open and cheery, and also a fun and relaxing place to treat the family for large get-togethers or buffet-type dinners.

The kitchen is a combination gourmet and country kitchen.  The over-sized central hard-surface island is perfect for mom, dad and the kids all helping to prepare either dinner, or a Saturday-afternoon bar-be-que.  Yes... there's that much room, plus more room to spare.

At the far end of the kitchen is a spacious breakfast/morning room.  Somehow, even with the family room and the game room... people just seem to want to congregate at the breakfast table in the kitchen to either chat, munch, or play board games.

The family room is also oversized, with a vaulted ceiling, and a partially-open wrap-around stairway to start folks up the stairs to the three bedrooms and gameroom.  At the back end of the family room is an awesome twenty-six foot covered patio... that was built with the original home, rather than as a funky add-on after the homeowners moved in !  Big Difference.

If you're looking for a home that can handle a pool, and still have lots of room left over for games like volleyball... you need to see this home.  Even though the front of the lot is nice and wide... the lot spreads out even further as it goes into the rear yard.  Lots of privacy in the back... it even offers enough privacy in case you want to relax and sunbathe.  Very Nice !

Does mom or dad have a motorcycle ?  If so, or even if it's only a golf-cart... the garage is extra-wide, and has a small half-car overhead door (notice on the front right of the home picture above) so there's no struggling getting the cycle or the golf cart in past the swinging door or the other cars.  Just raise the door, and in you go.

I am guessing that with all the cool features this home has... if you are looking for a really great family home... you'd better jump on this one.  So... if you are ready to get past your "just looking" phase, and get into the "we're serious" mode... give Karen Anne Stone at RE/MAX Trinity a call at (817) 929-3400 for your very own personal tour.  Karen Anne can also be reached at KarenAnneStone@gmail.com .  You can see even more goodies at Karen's website at www.NewHomeHuntersDFW.com .

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To get to the open house, from the intersection of South Loop 820 and I-35 W in Fort Worth,... travel south about four miles to the McAlister Exit.  At the stoplight, turn right (at the Best Buy store)... follow McAlister to 700 Bur Oak.

I must admit.  I have done everything I can think of to stimulate my new "unlicensed assistant" to do something to take some of the load off of me.

Here she is... Ms Mollie T Cat... looking raring to go... or at least that is what she tells me.  I have tried changing her cat food to one with a tad more protein.  That didn't work.

I've tried sprinkling just a itty bitty tad of kittie dust in her filing cabinet... hoping that putting it in there will motivate this dynamo to jump in and get started.

But... nothing phases her.  Just look at her... raring to go.  The only thing she is raring to do is go shopping for some new kitty treats, or for me to call the Dish Network and special order a television remote control with larger buttons.  With her kitty feet... she complains about how difficult it is to use the remote... and she often makes a fuss about it.  When she gets the wrong stations with the remote... she just sits there and cries... she cries this haunting, mournful cry.  Poor baby !

Me... I want her to get busy.  Do the mailers, get the solds and listeds out... put together the open house flyers... or even pack my lunch the night before so I can get out the door more quickly in the morning.  But no... !  Now, dear readers... look at this kitty's cute lil face ?  At least that's what Mollie asks me to do.  But, I'm tired... it's been a long week.  Mollie T... I ask you.   Is putting together an open house package too much to ask ?