CARES Act

Pandemics And Property Taxes: Don’t Expect A COVID-19 Miracle

By Jon Anderson / May 4, 2020 /

On May 15, the Dallas Central Appraisal District will be mailing property tax appraisal notices. Property owners will have the normal 30-day window to protest their valuations. For those newly homesteaded in 2019, you had until April 30 to file your exemption (just like always). Gentlemen and ladies, start your engines. Aside from appraisal date…

Breaking: Redfin Furloughs 41 Percent of Salaried Agents

By Candy Evans / April 7, 2020 /

The company chose to furlough agents instead of laying off in order to benefit from the $2 trillion CARES Act stimulus. Seattle-based Redfin, one of the very first disruptive brokerages to set the scene for upending the traditional brokerage model, announced Tuesday that it will furlough 41 percent of its agents, totaling nearly 600 people,…