News from Green Residential and around the world of Property Management and rental homes in Houston and Austin.
Buying a house – whether it’s your “forever home” or a house you’ll only be in for a couple of years – is a big deal. Any time you put down such a large amount of money and attach your name to debt, you want to make sure it’s perfect. The problem is that homes
It’s hard to convince potential tenants that bigger isn’t always better. The average tenant wants more space for the price, even if it means a little extra upkeep on their part. If you have a rental with very small rooms, it can drive tenants away. You might have a difficult time filling vacancies and retaining
One of the joys (or curses) of home ownership is that you’re in charge of virtually everything that happens on your property. While your HOA may limit you in changes that can be made to the exterior of your house, just about anything in the privacy of your house can be tweaked and optimized according
Your home, if anything like the average, contains hundreds of thousands of individual items and possessions. While you may like to think your “crap” is all useful and systematically organized, the reality is that it’s a mess. Very few items have a permanent resting place, and most of the stuff you own is pretty useless.
Building a house is a huge responsibility that comes with lots of pressure and decisions. While you have a team of people to handle the intricacies of the process – including an architect and builder – you have to think about the big picture and designing. The more strategically you think about your home’s design
While we all love to watch those HGTV shows with starry-eyed couples bashing through walls and ripping out dated appliances in order to breathe new life into horrendous-looking homes, the infatuation with home remodels stops there for most of us. We’d rather not deal with the time, money, and mess that a remodel requires. But