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Getting a gift or loan for your Down Payment – Good or Bad?

This is a well conversed and debated topic these days due to the fact that many home buyers are scrambling to find money for their down payment. Housing market is really attractive with low mortgage rates but on the other hand home prices are slowly creeping up to pre-recession level in many parts of the […]

About Vijaianand Thirnageswaram

I am a Proud Realtor of Texas, trying to guide and help clients to find their dream home and educate them to buy them for right price. I am also a Candidate for CFP who has more financial knowledge which allows me share and educate clients in any financial decision making process.

How to choose a right handyman for the job?

I get an average 5 calls a week from my clients asking for referrals to service people or Handyman’s. I usually give out from the list of personnel I have for every job which I either used them myself in the past or got their name referred by other clients. If I refer people for […]

About Vijaianand Thirnageswaram

I am a Proud Realtor of Texas, trying to guide and help clients to find their dream home and educate them to buy them for right price. I am also a Candidate for CFP who has more financial knowledge which allows me share and educate clients in any financial decision making process.

Home Buyers: Lessons Learned from Previous Transactions

In the past, I talked a lot about how to buy a house, how to set criteria’s in finding your dream home, how to get preapproved, why you need to work with a smart realtor and so forth. Recently I started focusing on shedding some light about what happens during home transaction. I wrote a […]

About Vijaianand Thirnageswaram

I am a Proud Realtor of Texas, trying to guide and help clients to find their dream home and educate them to buy them for right price. I am also a Candidate for CFP who has more financial knowledge which allows me share and educate clients in any financial decision making process.

Must Know: Investors – 5 Steps to be a Successful Landlord

I have many Investor clients who either started investing in Real estate recently or doing it for years. Both these clients often talk to me about how managing a property and making reasonable ROI is an art compared to a cake walk. Being an Investor myself, I totally agree with them. Rental property management is […]

About Vijaianand Thirnageswaram

I am a Proud Realtor of Texas, trying to guide and help clients to find their dream home and educate them to buy them for right price. I am also a Candidate for CFP who has more financial knowledge which allows me share and educate clients in any financial decision making process.

Home Buyers: How credit inquiries affect your FICO score while shopping for good rates?

Many new home buyers are worried about their credit score during their loan shopping. By default I get a question from them, whether my credit score will get hit every time I get pre-approval from a lender. My simple answer, if its within 30days it will all be counted as one inquiry but after 30 […]

About Vijaianand Thirnageswaram

I am a Proud Realtor of Texas, trying to guide and help clients to find their dream home and educate them to buy them for right price. I am also a Candidate for CFP who has more financial knowledge which allows me share and educate clients in any financial decision making process.