Realtors are commission-based As a Realtor, I am paid a commission after your successful signing of the lease on a rental home. Because it takes days, weeks, and sometimes months of search, showings, and negotiations to achieve a signed lease, the minimum commission that I aim to receive from each Read more…
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Getting ready to move? Prepare to compete for housing DREAMING OF SWAPPING YOUR CRAMPED APARTMENT FOR A HOUSE WITH A BIG YARD AND A POOL? And so are other renters in the area! The sudden changes brought by COVID have resulted in a larger than usual number of renters looking Read more…
Since the COVID epidemic started in April-March of 2020, most analysts were predicting dire scenarios for the real estate market. The overall expectation was the home prices would crash and foreclosures would soar due to high rates of unemployment and economic uncertainty. A large number of investors and a lot Read more…
Love crunching numbers? Want to get raw unbiased data on the real estate trends in the North Texas? This page is for you. DFW real estate performance in the last 5 years Dallas, Collin, Denton, Tarrant county numbers. Can you identify the most affordable place to buy in DFW? Which Read more…
Divvy Homes is a pretty good rent-to-own program, but it has pretty strict applicant selection guidelines. About 90% of the applicants to Divvy homes, in my limited experience, are rejected either during the initial pre-qualification or during the more in-depth underwriting process. So, what should people who cannot use Divvy Read more…
Ok, so you are tired of renting. But what should be your next step? Should you rent-to-own? Or buy using seller financing? Or apply for a mortgage? Or keep renting? What do all those terms mean? Which one is better for you? Nothing is absolute, but we can set some Read more…
About Elena
Hi, my name is Elena Garrett, and I am a real estate agent with Keller Williams Central 75 brokerage in Dallas – Fort Worth. I work with both residential and commercial real estate transactions.
Reach out to me with any questions or comments on my blog.
(469) 371 4961
egarrett @ kw.com
