What are the Rules About Sponsored Luncheons That Offer CE?
Can a brokerage allow a mortgage company to sponsor a luncheon that offers CE for its agents?It d...
How to Prepare for Who's Going to Buy Your Home
Where were you in 1980? A person born after that year might be buying your home this year. Signi...
2 Types of Smart-Home Tech You've Probably Overlooked
As the smart-home technology sector grows, new features make their way into more categories of ga...
Help Landowners With Pumpkin Patches and Tree Farms Reduce Their Risk
Hunting, fishing, bird watching, pumpkin patches, and Christmas tree farms are just a few ways Te...
What Happens When the Seller Can't Find His Survey?
My client has a contract to purchase a home. The One to Four Family Residential Contract has Para...
How Bitcoin Can Affect Real Estate Transactions in Texas
What You Can Learn From Someone Who’s Closed 4 Bitcoin TransactionsIn 2017, Sheryl Lowe of Kupe...
Why You Should Hire a Property Manager for Your Rental
People do manage their own rental properties, but it's not always the best option. In addition to...
Need to Motivate Someone? Ask Him for Advice
People who appear to be unmotivated might be lacking confidence, not knowledge. That's the pre...
Are You Like Other REALTORS®?
A few stats about your fellow Texas REALTORS®, according to the 2018 Profile of Texas REALTORS®...
CoStar Suing Non-Subscribers Using Shared Passwords
Commercial real estate data firm CoStar has filed seven lawsuits, including one in Texas, against...
Texas Home Sales, Prices Continue to Increase in 3rd Quarter
The median sales prices and number of homes sold in the third quarter of 2018 each increased 4.4%...
Does Your Seller Have a Duty to Update a Disclosure With New Information?
What to Know if the Seller's Disclosure Needs to be RevisedWhen your seller client fills out the ...
How Your Texas REALTOR® Can Keep you From Making Rookie Homebuyer Mistakes
Picture a home with a shady backyard overflowing with blooming flowers, chirping birds, and a spa...
What Fees Do You Owe When You Terminate an Agent's Independent Contractor Agreement?
I’m a broker and I recently terminated the services of one of my agents who signed the TAR inde...
What Does Well Water Have to Do With Your E&O Insurance?
By Chad Wenzelspratt, Lee Santos E&O Case Study: When the Well Water Isn’t EnoughA real estate...
Try These 5 Tech Tools to Boost Your Business
Business Tasks Made Simple With TechYou don’t need to be an early adopter, living on the bleedi...
Texas Rebuilds: Successive Floods Take a Toll on Prices
The Meyerland neighborhood of Houston has been flooded several times in recent years: the 2015 Me...
How to Create an Agency Relationship with a Buyer
Is having a signed written agreement, such as TAR’s Residential Buyer/Tenant Representation Agr...
How Much Should You Offer for That House?
Real estate buyers can submit offers for any amount, often with conditions that make their offer ...
What "Non-Disclosure" Doesn't Mean for Reporting Prices to the MLS
Do I have to report my client's sales price to the MLS? I heard that Texas is a non-disclosure st...
Can Your Seller Tell You Not to Cooperate With a Particular Firm?
My seller told me not to cooperate with a particular firm regarding her listing. Can the seller d...
Quiz: Do You Need a Real Estate License To Do That?
Quiz: Is a Real Estate License Required?Test how familiar you are with the Texas Real Estate Comm...
Lessons From Texas REALTORS® a Year After Harvey
For the September/October issue, Texas REALTOR® magazine traveled from the Coastal Bend to the G...
Take Advantage of Improved Office Depot and OfficeMax Discount Program
The Office Depot/OfficeMax discount program offered to Texas REALTORS® through their membership ...
How to Meet Your Home-Selling Goals
Whether you’re selling your home for the first time or the fifth, your goals stay the same: Att...
Can Offers of Compensation in the MLS Be Conditional?
From the Legal Hotline: MLS OffersWe sometimes get calls about whether listing brokers can make o...
Use RPR to Nail Your Next Listing Presentation
Sellers want to know your listing presentation is based on knowledge of the market, expertise in ...