Ronda Allen's (rondawiseallen) Blog

Ask any good real estate agent, and they have dozens of stories of how a buyer may have hindered their own ability to buy the right home.  But, it makes my job easier when I explain the process of buying a home before write the contract, so the buyer can pick up on the time's when they are standi...

15 miles West of Fort Worth is the master planned community of Bella Flora.  This is a 1,000 acre community of home sites for custom estates on 1-2.5 acres.  The community is gated, with a gorgeous drive-up to the guard house and a beautiful fountain to pass as you enter the development.  This is...

Are you actively pursuing feedback on showings of your home listings?  Do you even care if other agents give feedback on your listings?  Or, are you just using that listing to get buyer leads and not actively engaged in selling that home?  There are so many reasons why an agent would take a listi...

When you enter the real estate industry, no matter what brokerage firm you hang your license with, you enter the world of the self-employed.  Freelance contracting is selling from a tight-rope, 50-feet in the air, with no net below.  It's scary.  When you control your own destiny, it is very easy...

Other agents from all over the country will attest that we are getting calls each week from unrealistic buyers and investors looking to scoop up distressed properties.  Many of these buyers have to be sent away, because they are looking for a price point that just doesn't exist in our suburban ho...

Seller's:  So, the prospective buyer offered low on your home?  What now?  Same song, second verse - right?  Buyers are still trying to tell us that the North Texas Region is a buyer's market, even when we can prove to them in sale comps that we're a BALANCED housing market and our sales comps ha...

Heading into the Winter months, many sellers fall into the habit of developing low expectations.  There is some (misguided) belief that the warmer months are the ONLY months in which a home sells.  Here in Texas, the only weather-issues that we encounter with home sales are: 1. August can be a di...

All in all, 2009 wasn't a bad year for selling homes in Prosper, Texas.  The media would have you believe that it was gloom and doom all over DFW.  We certainly did see our area home sale prices drop about 2%, and we were selling homes at around the same levels where they were selling in 2007.  H...

As a Certified Purchasing Manager, as well as a Realtor, I have always been a big believer in volume discounts.  We asked for them from suppliers in my corporate life, and I've negotiated them for my clients throughout the course of my real estate career.  My new favorite site is groupon.com.  Th...

U.S. News and World Report just published their 2009 list of the best high schools across the country, based on the analysis of 21,000 high schools.  As a Texas Realtor, I know how important schools are to the buyers I serve all over the suburban and rural communities around Dallas and Fort Worth...