Archive for San Antonio News
Showing Feedback: What did your client think of my listing?
Useful Feedback or outdated ideas? After a long day of showings this weekend, my phone was exploding with voicemails and emails from listing agents. They all had the same question on their minds – what did the buyer think of the home? From day one, I was always taught to provide feedback as a courtesy [...]
Fidelity National Title to Require Warranties on REO Sales
Title company gets tough with banks. In light of the recent halts on foreclosures as states figure out whether banks complied with local laws during their foreclosure process, Fidelity National Financial will require lenders to sign off on warranties in order to avoid so called “robo-signing” disputes on REO (real estate owned, aka foreclosures) properties. [...]
Building a new home in San Antonio?
I have an offer for you. Considering building a new home in San Antonio? In the effort to educate San Antonio buyers about new home construction and representation by the builder versus a Realtor®, I have written a lot about the dangers of going it alone when building a new home. Although many people use [...]
Tungle.me? Pardon me?
Scheduling Just Got A Lot Easier. In light of the recent post about technology and real estate, this post may seem like it was planned to follow close on the former’s heels, but that’s not how it happened. I had heard of Tungle before, but hadn’t had a chance to check into it. When I [...]
San Antonio’s Best Resource: 311
Who you gonna’ call? San Antonio 3-1-1 is one of our best resources in the city and with it’s easy to remember phone number, it’s hard to forget. If you’re in need of non-emergency city services such as pothole repair or to report stray animals, non-functioning traffic lights or downed street signs, or need to [...]
Nature and the city of San Antonio.
Nature in the City I woke up early today. Really early. After I wiped the sleep out of my eyes, I decided to go grab a coffee at my local Valero at about 4AM. (Like I said, I woke up really early.) As I drove north on Blanco, just before hitting Loop 1604, I saw [...]
Do you Yelp?
Yelp San Antonio “What in the world is Yelp?,” you might be saying. Then again, with it’s explosion of popularity over time, my guess is you’ve heard of it at least once. Yelp, simply put, is a review site. You create a profile and dig in. I’ve been yelping since September 2009 and have been [...]
Texas Attorney General Asks Lenders To Halt Foreclosures
Texas becomes latest state to join the foreclosure fray. Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbot, sent a letter to twenty seven mortgage companies in Texas on Monday, demanding they halt foreclosure action in the state. Joining with other states who recently have launched their own moratoriums and investigations, the Texas Attorney General is asking lenders to [...]
Animal Defense League of San Antonio
Animal Defense League of San Antonio, Texas. In light of my past post about the stray cat living under my deck and the response to it, I thought I’d write a little about my favorite place in San Antonio for pets and the care for the animals that get left behind. I’m speaking of the [...]
Hello, remember me?
It’s been awhile. I’ve missed you and this blog lately. I know I haven’t been around it nearly as much as I like to be. Some of you who read it may even think I just fell off the face of the earth, never to return again. Of course, that would be an incorrect assumption, [...]
