There is a fine art to selling a home to get top dollar. Any realtor who brags that they sell homes within a day (or an hour) of them being on the market, AND does this regularly, makes me skeptical. Have I done this before? Of course. Do I do it regularly? No. If a home goes quickly, it is either priced right, or underpriced. Unfortunately, Continue Reading
Is Oil Really Making a Comeback for 2018?
Here in Houston, we’ve been watching the price of oil struggle to get up to the $60/bbl mark, and stay there, but it really hasn’t had much luck since the crash in 4Q14. The cutbacks by OPEC, and even the Russians getting on board with throttling back their production to stabilize the price has worked some, but we’ve also seen a cost improvement in the technology for fracking (originally Continue Reading
