Alan Kirkpatrick Austin Texas Real Estate

The Cup Cake Contest Downtown Austin. Mikah Kirkpatrick and Sandy represent Waltons and win best Chocolate!

I really, really love living in Texas! We are having such fun here. I was born in West Texas but my family moved us to Arizona when I was very young. Arizona was a great place to live. I graduated High School and returned to Texas for my College Education. My heart has always been in Texas and a few years ago we had the opportunity to move my family back here. It has been a great experience we have made tons of new friends and we really enjoy the pace of life.

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Round Rock Texas is a great place to live and to raise a family. Filled with warm loving people, quality schools and Friday night lights. October is a beautiful thing in Texas. Stony Point High School celebrated their homecoming with a victory over McNeil

The Stony Point Choir sings the national Anthem along with the choir from Hopewell middle school.

The Tigers beat the Mavs 21-14 to advance their record to 6=0 and 4-0 in district play. It was an awesome night that featured the Stony Point award winning marching band playing a selection of Journy songs including "Don't Stop Believing".

That is Zak Kirkpatrick on the drum set.

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The Homecoming dance featured Midnight Riot a band that includes Amanda Kirkpatrick on vocals and Zak on drums.

Looking for a design specialist for that empty listing. I hightly reccomend Anna Light of Accepts by Anna. Extremely professional, she will add a touch of class that will put your listing at the top of buyers list. She is connected to some of the best furniture and design companies in Austin. She can decorate by room. She will cusult with buyers and use their furnishing or she can contract to make your listings look like a modle home.

You can reach her at: turnannalifht@yahoo.com or call 512-587-8377

A recent trip to downtown Austin put me in direct proximity to a huge chocolate cupcake. Ha

My daughter is a pastry chef and she entered a cupcake contest downtown and won best chocolate cupcake. While viewing all the great entries it was difficult not to take this huge cupcake home!

One of the must See's if you are downtown in Austin is Waltons Bakery. http://www.waltonsfancyandstaple.com/home.aspx

You will love what you see. You can grab a great deli sandwich and finish off your meal with a hand crafted coffee and a pastry. So much to choose from you will enjoy making your selection.

Waltons is another great excuse for seeing 6th street in downtown Austin.

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Protect your clients and yourself. Don't be afraid of short sales but do be prepared.

1. Qualify the sellers financial status. Not every home in jeopardy of foreclosure is a candidate for a short sale. In order to qualify the seller for a short sale you need to gather information about their financial condition:

-request copies of the sellers most recent loan payment coupons and statements

-Gather information on all debt obligations the seller faces.

-Contrast the sellers debt obligations with their real assets, for example if the seller has ownership of other real property, a high wage, sell-able assets the bank may be unwilling to grant a short sale until those assets are liquidated.

This information will help protect you from lender fraud.

2. Gather a property profile from a title company prior to getting the listing.

-I was doing some research on a property recently the clients wanted to list. Once I had the property profile, I realized that the owner of record was different. In addition a mobile home now resided on the property but it did not show up in the records. Needless to say a great deal of work is ahead of the current owners.

3. Refer your clients to proper legal counsel. Financial distress can snowball quickly and overwhelm your client. They need to fully understand their rights and obligations. They need clear understanding on what the benefits of short sale would be over a foreclosure. Whither or not they act on the referral you will have written proof that you made the referral.

Thin you might be a candidate for a short sale? Email me at roundrockhomes@gmail.com