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Thursday, January 3, 2019

New Home Owners: Apply for Your Homestead Exemption - Save Money on Property Taxes

If you bought a house last year, it's time to make your New Year even better by Saving Money!!!

That's right, save some money! Between January 1st - April 30th, you can apply for your Homestead Exemption! You might remember hearing about this exemption at your closing. The Homestead Exemption can help you save money on your property taxes by reducing the taxable value of your property! In order to qualify for the Residential Homestead Exemption, you must be occupying the property as your homestead on January 1st of the tax year in which the exemption is granted.

The process of filing the Homestead Exemption is FREE and very easy - just visit the (see list below) where you can print off a form to fill out. It doesn't take much time at all. Be sure that when you apply for exemptions that the address on your Driver's License or ID Card matches the property on the application or your application/request will be denied.

***Beware ... there are "companies" out there that will solicit you and tell you that they'll file the exemption on your behalf and of course there'll be a charge for it! But remember that YOU can do it for FREE. If you ever have any questions as to the validity of one of these solicitations just give me a call.

In addition to the Homestead Exemption, you might also qualify for: Disabled Individual Exemption, Agricultural Land Exemption, Disabled Veteran Exemption and/or the Over 65 Exemption.

Have a blessed 2019 and don't forget...I'm never too busy for any of your referrals!

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Let me know if I can help you or your family/friends with any Real Estate needs. Please know that I am never too busy for you or your referral & I would honor the chance to earn the business!

If there's a neighborhood that you'd like more information on simply Email me EMAIL me or go to my Website to request a personal Home Search. If you're thinking about Selling your home and would like to find out how much your home is worth in the current market, simply go to my Website to fill out the form.

Tuesday, January 1, 2019

New Year's Resolution ... Be a Better Earthly Neighbor

Happy New Year everyone! Well, with the holidays now behind us, it's time to start tackling our "Resolutions".

This year, I'm making a consented effort to do more to lessen my families "Foot Print" on our 1 and only Earth. In my end of year reflection, I realized that what I do to the Earth affect all of you and vice versa, and I can do more to be a better Earthly neighbor. My family's small lifestyle changes can have a big impact on the planet. So with that being said, here's some ways I found on how to be kinder to our Earth that might be helpful to you as well.

I'm committing to the three “R’s”: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.

Reduce ... I'm going to try to Reduce the items we purchase
Reuse ... I'm going to try to Reuse items that we have for as long as we can and even try to "Upcycle" items or Refurbish them into other items
Recycle ... I'm going to work to recycle more than I do. The following items are able to be thrown into your Recycle Bin:

In researching the Recycling programs that are around Lake Ray Hubbard, I'm happy & thankful that the Cities of Garland, Rowlett, Rockwall, Wylie, Sachse and Murphy have a recycling programs and "Curb-Side" pick up for recycling. If you're in "aGREENment" (as the City of Rockwall says), click on the following links to find out more about your cities Recycling Program.