The Journal
Renovating, designing, buying, selling, written by the people who do it, not by a marketing department. 72 straight answers and counting.
Buying & Selling
In the last two months, we've had three deals hang up on a roof, and not one of them was leaking. A working roof can still stop your sale cold, because the person deciding whether it's acceptable isn't your buyer or your inspector. It's an insurance underwriter you'll never meet. Here's what's actually happening in the Texas market, what it costs, and what Fort Worth sellers should do before listing.
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Buying & Selling
Somebody falls in love with an old Fort Worth house, pays for the inspection, and a week later they're at the kitchen table with a 40-page report full of red text, wondering if they just fell for a money pit. Most of the time, they didn't. Here's the honest builder-and-Realtor read on what actually matters in an old Fort Worth home, the foundation questions, the cast iron plumbing myth, the sloping floors, and how to avoid the $40,000 repair that should have cost $5,000.
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Renovating
A Fort Worth contractor walks your house for twenty minutes and hands you a firm price. "Forty-two thousand for the kitchen." It feels amazing, until you realize you can't actually price a project you haven't designed yet. Here's the mistake we watch homeowners make all the time, what happens next (both scenarios end badly), and the estimate-design-bid process that produces a number you can actually stand behind.
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Buying & Selling
Fort Worth just crossed a million people and became America's 10th largest city, the second-biggest population gain in the country last year. That's not just a fun headline. Here's what it actually means for your Fort Worth home's value, equity, and potential next move, from a builder and Realtor who watches this market every week.
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The real estate process is already overwhelming and daunting enough, you don’t need complicated jargon thrown on top of everything else. That’s why the first step in preparing to buy your home is to know and understand industry jargon.
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