Realtor in Austin TX Area?

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My son is moving to Austin area for 3 years while his fiancé finishes her Dr of Physical Therapy degree. He would like to buy a fixer upper to keep busy on and make some money on. Anyone know of a good realtor in the area?
 
My son lives in Leander Texas and I was down to see him just a few weeks ago.
It's incredible what Real Estate is doing.

Maybe they have fixer uppers, but it's moving so fast, it's hard to locate, look at, make an offer, before it's already sold.


My son wanted to buy some land.
Found 65 acres, but it's an hour and 15 minutes away. Just about the only thing that was close to what he wanted.


His Mother moved down there last year, so he bought a 1500 square foot house for like $250,000. Now it's worth $350,000.

Good Luck
 
My son lives in Leander Texas and I was down to see him just a few weeks ago.
It's incredible what Real Estate is doing.

Maybe they have fixer uppers, but it's moving so fast, it's hard to locate, look at, make an offer, before it's already sold.


My son wanted to buy some land.
Found 65 acres, but it's an hour and 15 minutes away. Just about the only thing that was close to what he wanted.


His Mother moved down there last year, so he bought a 1500 square foot house for like $250,000. Not it's worth $350,000.

Good Luck
Plus he needs to sell his home here in Colorado and is changing jobs. Gonna be tough.
 
Plus he needs to sell his home here in Colorado and is changing jobs. Gonna be tough.


You're probably familiar with out of control Real Estate, being from Colorado.
I hear it's just as fast paced, or at least used to be.

If he knows some people down there, just get hooked up with them I guess.

There isn't a great solution.


When my son bought that house for his Mother, he lost out on, I'll bet 15 properties, because he was too slow, or his 'above listing price offer' wasn't high enough.
 
because he was too slow

And when I mean 'too slow', I mean the house went on the market, the Realtor called my son at noon, by the time he could get off work and look at it, it was sold.

Not 'too slow' like a couple of days or anything.
 
Californians offering 25-50K over asking price sight unseen. I had a feeling Austin would be similar. He was looking toward the Kyle area, but im not seeing shit for under 300K.
 
My son lives in Leander Texas and I was down to see him just a few weeks ago.
It's incredible what Real Estate is doing.

Maybe they have fixer uppers, but it's moving so fast, it's hard to locate, look at, make an offer, before it's already sold.


My son wanted to buy some land.
Found 65 acres, but it's an hour and 15 minutes away. Just about the only thing that was close to what he wanted.


His Mother moved down there last year, so he bought a 1500 square foot house for like $250,000. Now it's worth $350,000.

Good Luck

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Californians offering 25-50K over asking price sight unseen. I had a feeling Austin would be similar. He was looking toward the Kyle area, but im not seeing shit for under 300K.
He's a year too late. Don't know any realtors so all I can say is good luck because it's ridiculous how much prices have gone up.
 
Californians offering 25-50K over asking price sight unseen. I had a feeling Austin would be similar. He was looking toward the Kyle area, but im not seeing shit for under 300K.
Yeah... That's happening all over. Sight unseen, No inspections... CRAZY!! :nod:
 
My son is moving to Austin area for 3 years while his fiancé finishes her Dr of Physical Therapy degree. He would like to buy a fixer upper to keep busy on and make some money on. Anyone know of a good realtor in the area?
I’m a realtor in Austin and I can get him a house but need him to Venmo me 10k so we can put earnest money down immediately when we find one.
 
He's a year too late. Don't know any realtors so all I can say is good luck because it's ridiculous how much prices have gone up.
Well, the good thing is that his fiancé’s mom lives there already. They can stay with her until the right thing comes along. Since they plan to move back home in 3 years, he was wanting to try finding something that needs work and make some money on when they sell it down the road.
 
Get ready to get into 'sight unseen' bidding wars with inspection contingencies out the ass.
 
Honestly, that sounds like a bad investment. Building materials are out the ass right now and that's if you can even find the stuff to buy. Lots of it is back ordered. Tons of delays. So you're already paying a TON for the property as is and then gonna be paying a ton in fixing it up. The housing market prices probably aren't gonna keep going up, up and up within the next 3 years. It's gonna correct at some point. There's a very good chance he might not get out what he put in. I'd advise to be VERY cautious about how much you put in to fixing things up.
 
Every Illegal family that comes up needs a place to stay.

The growth will be tremendous for the next few years with as many as there are.

Housing won't slow down for 5-7 years minimum, in Texas, with Sleepy Joe letting them pour over.
 
Every Illegal family that comes up needs a place to stay.

The growth will be tremendous for the next few years with as many as there are.

Housing won't slow down for 5-7 years minimum, in Texas, with Sleepy Joe letting them pour over.

2/10 PF
 
Get ready to get into 'sight unseen' bidding wars with inspection contingencies out the ass.
Yep it sucks. He paid 150k for a condo here in Northern Colorado almost 3 years ago. He just put it up for 260k
 
Honestly, that sounds like a bad investment. Building materials are out the ass right now and that's if you can even find the stuff to buy. Lots of it is back ordered. Tons of delays. So you're already paying a TON for the property as is and then gonna be paying a ton in fixing it up. The housing market prices probably aren't gonna keep going up, up and up within the next 3 years. It's gonna correct at some point. There's a very good chance he might not get out what he put in. I'd advise to be VERY cautious about how much you put in to fixing things up.
Talking about a 3 year project. Lots of upgrades can be made without going broke on building materials. i don’t think he’s interested in a Flip or Flop scenari.
 
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