Opendoor
Remember those ads where Opendoor strongly hinted that if you sold your home with them, you would save money? They’d buy your house, you wouldn’t mess with showings or repairs, It just sounded too good to be true. The Federal Trade Commission agreed: Opendoor is now banned from making “false, misleading and unsubstantiated claims about…
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Candy and flowers make great Valentine’s Day gifts, but those who want to go a little bigger this year could fall in love while touring some North Texas open houses. Topping the list in this edition of CandysDirt.com Open Houses of the Week is a sweethearts’ cottage on a large lot in North Dallas, a…
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When I moved to the Dallas area in 2005, Forney was a tiny town with maybe two exits and a giant jackrabbit stationed just down the road from the town’s true claim to fame: a petite replica of the Statue of Liberty. Over the past 17 years, the Kaufman County town has morphed into a…
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This year was a wild ride for the real estate world. As far as the Texas housing market goes, we’ve seen everything from historically low inventory to high mortgage rates. If you’re a Realtor, real estate agent, broker, banker, or buyer, you’ve likely felt the pressure of this precarious market. Thankfully, this was also an…
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It wasn’t that long ago that newspapers were quaking in their boots at the prospect of Craigslist, a free peer-to-peer buy/sell/trade site that would eventually be the death knell of the traditional classified section. Likewise, could Opendoor’s expansion of Opendoor Exclusives into a peer-to-peer marketplace mean the end of the Multiple Listing Service as we…
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