Building a Home? Insist on…

When you choose to build a new home, you naturally assume the home that the builder will construct for you is structurally sound. Over the years, many homebuyers have learned that the product that the builder has in mind for you is meant to generate maximum profit at minimal effort. What follows is a list…

Landscaping… Dreamscape or Nightmare?

Often, the most beautiful landscaping results in damage to the home and some of the most expensive repairs for homeowners. Close inspection of many of the yards in San Antonio and surrounding areas reveals that many landscapers (and homeowners) have focused on the appearance of the plants, bushes and trees, and overlooked the damage that…

Setting the Standard

Home Buyers across Texas are again being subjected to the whims of the Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC). Within the last year, Commissioners voted to ‘dumb down’ Inspection Standards (SoP) for Inspectors, sanctioning Inspectors who want to ‘work with’ real estate agents and not actually provide meaningful and useful information to their clients. While there…

TREC Education Requirements, Where is the Logic?

Recent action by the Texas Real Estate Commission Inspector Advisory Committee (IAC) suggests that limiting the number of education hours accepted for the various education categories during each licensing cycle is of greater importance than reducing the fraud that surrounds the online education classes. While TREC has placed much emphasis on teaching the frequently asked…