First-Time Home Buyers Tax Credit

Hello again. I have had many people ask me about the new tax credit for first time homebuyers. I have answered many of your questions but, I also have found a article in the USA Today by Sandra Block for you. I hope this helps you and if it does pass it along to others.

You've found a charming bungalow in a nice neighborhood at a price you can afford. Mortgage rates have never been lower. You've even managed to come up with a 20% down payment. There's just one problem: The Pepto Bismol-colored carpet in the family room is not to your taste, and you don't have any money left for hardwood floors.

Well, you may not have to live with that hot-pink rug for long. A provision in the economic stimulus bill enacted this year provides a tax credit of up to $8,000 for first-time home buyers. Unlike the $7,500 tax credit enacted last year, this credit doesn't have to be repaid. And you don't have to wait until you file your 2009 tax return to get your money.

The tax credit is available for first-time home buyers who purchase a home before Dec. 1. You can claim the credit on your 2008 or 2009 tax return, according to the IRS. However, you can't claim the credit until after you've purchased your home. Home buyers who want to claim the credit on their 2008 tax return have these options:

File for an extension

This will give you until Oct. 15 to file your tax return. Once you close on your home, you can file your taxes and claim the credit. Taxpayers who file their taxes after receiving an extension can still file electronically, the IRS says. By e-filing and arranging for direct deposit, you can get your refund in as few as 10 days.

To request an extension, file Form 4868 by April 15. Most tax software programs will help you file an extension. If your 2008 adjusted gross income is $56,000 or less, you can file an extension using Free File, a partnership between the IRS and tax software companies. You can find more information at www.irs.gov.
Remember, though, that if you owe money to the IRS, filing for an extension doesn't give you more time to pay.

File now and amend later
Suppose you're due a large refund and don't want to wait to get your money. You can file your 2008 tax return, pocket your refund and file an amended return after you close on your home.
Likewise, taxpayers who have already filed can amend their returns to claim the home buyer's credit after they close on a home. Use Form 1040X to file an amended return.

Other features of the home buyer's credit:

•You may be eligible, even if this isn't your first home.
" 'First-time home buyer' is kind of a misnomer," says Mary Canning, dean of the taxation and accounting schools at Golden Gate University in San Francisco. If you haven't owned a principal residence in the past three years, she says, you're considered a first-time home buyer.
If you're married and your spouse has owned a home in the past three years, you don't qualify for the credit.

•The tax credit is refundable. Suppose you owed $1,000 in 2008. If you qualify for the full credit, you'll receive a refund for $7,000. This makes the credit particularly valuable for low-income families who owe little or no federal income tax.

•Bargain hunters may get a smaller credit. That foreclosure fixer-upper you're considering may be a real steal at $40,000, but you won't get the full tax credit. The credit is worth 10% of the home's purchase price, up to a maximum of $8,000. So your $40,000 home will result in a $4,000 credit.

•Married couples who file separately will be eligible for a maximum credit of $4,000 each. Unmarried partners who purchase a home together can split the credit, or one partner can claim the entire credit, says Amy McAnarney, executive director of H&R Block's Tax Institute. However, the couple can't claim more than the maximum credit allowed for the home, she says.

•Single taxpayers with modified adjusted gross income of more than $95,000 are ineligible for the credit; for married couples, the cutoff is $170,000. Singles who earn $75,000 to $95,000 and couples with AGI of $150,000 to $170,000 are eligible for a reduced credit.
Home buyers who expect their AGI to drop this year may be better off waiting for their 2009 tax returns to claim the credit, because they could be eligible for a larger amount, McAnarney says.

•If you bought a home in 2008, you're not eligible for the new tax credit. If you purchased your home between April 9, 2008, and Jan. 1, 2009, you can still claim a $7,500 credit, but that credit must be repaid in installments over 15 years.

•You can't double-dip. Washington, D.C., offers a first-time home buyer's credit for up to $5,000. If you claim that credit, McAnarney says, you're ineligible for the federal tax credit.

Sandra Block covers personal finance for USA TODAY. Her Your Money column appears Tuesdays. Click here for an index of Your Money columns. E-mail her at: sblock@usatoday.com.

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Your Neighbor,
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Ranked in Top 100 Listing Agents CB United -Texas
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VIRUS ALERT - VERY IMPORTANT

Hello Heritage Park friends and neighbors!

Please see the very important article located below to help possibly protect your computer and personal information.

Last-minute Conficker survival guide
by Christopher Null: The Working Guy

Tomorrow -- April 1 -- is D-Day for Conficker, as whatever nasty payload it's packing is currently set to activate. What happens come midnight is a mystery: Will it turn the millions of infected computers into spam-sending zombie robots? Or will it start capturing everything you type -- passwords, credit card numbers, etc. -- and send that information back to its masters?

No one knows, but we'll probably find out soon.

Or not. As Slate notes, Conficker is scheduled to go "live" on April 1, but whoever's controlling it could choose not to wreak havoc but instead do absolutely nothing, waiting for a time when there's less heat. They can do this because the way Conficker is designed is extremely clever: Rather than containing a list of specific, static instructions, Conficker reaches out to the web to receive updated marching orders via a huge list of websites it creates. Conficker.C -- the latest bad boy -- will start checking 50,000 different semi-randomly-generated sites a day looking for instructions, so there's no way to shut down all of them. If just one of those sites goes live with legitimate instructions, Conficker keeps on trucking.

Conficker's a nasty little worm that takes serious efforts to bypass your security defenses, but you aren't without some tools in your arsenal to protect yourself.
Your first step should be the tools you already have: Windows Update, to make sure your computer is fully patched, and your current antivirus software, to make sure anything that slips through the cracks is caught.

But if Conficker's already on your machine, it may bypass certain subsystems and updating Windows and your antivirus at this point may not work. If you are worried about anything being amiss -- try booting into Safe Mode, which Conficker prevents, to check -- you should run a specialized tool to get rid of Conficker.

Microsoft offers a web-based scanner (note that some users have reported it crashed their machines; I had no trouble with it), so you might try one of these downloadable options instead: Symantec's Conficker (aka Downadup) tool, Trend Micro's Cleanup Engine, or Malwarebytes. Conficker may prevent your machine from accessing any of these websites, so you may have to download these tools from a known non-infected computer if you need them. Follow the instructions given on each site to run them successfully. (Also note: None of these tools should harm your computer if you don't have Conficker.)

As a final safety note, all users -- whether they're worried about an infection or know for sure they're clean -- are also wise to make a full data backup today.

What won't work? Turning your PC off tonight and back on on April 2 will not protect you from the worm (sorry to the dozens of people who wrote me asking if this would do the trick). Temporarily disconnecting your computer from the web won't help if the malware is already on your machine -- it will simply activate once you connect again. Changing the date on your PC will likely have no helpful effect, either. And yes, Macs are immune this time out. Follow the above instructions to detect and remove the worm.

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I look forward to exceeding your service expectations in 2009.

Your Neighbor,
Brian Taylor

Coldwell Banker United Realtors
Winner of Coldwell Banker International Sterling Society Award
Winner of Coldwell Banker International Diamond Society Award
Ranked in Top 100 Listing Agents CB United -Texas
Multi-Million Dollar Producer

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JUST SOLD !!!!

Hello friends and neighbors!!!

I have JUST SOLD!!! the property located at

4131 King Rail Circle in Pointe West.

Check back on Weds. for Heritage Park Home Sales Market Update.

What are you still waiting for? Let me get your home SOLD!!!

Want to get your property listed? Give me a call, e-mail me or click on the link to the left for a free market analysis.

I look forward to exceeding your service expectations in 2009.

Your Neighbor,

Brian Taylor

Winner of Coldwell Banker International Sterling Society Award

Winner of Coldwell Banker International Diamond Society Award

Ranked in Top 100 Listing Agents CB United -Texas

Multi-Million Dollar Producer

(832) 722-1756

bmtaylor@cbunited.com

Weekly Motivational

Good afternoon to all!

I have a short but straight to the point motivational for you. Enjoy your week and check back Weds. for a Heritage Park Home Sales Market Update.

"Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings."


Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

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I look forward to exceeding your service expectations in 2009.

Your Neighbor,
Brian Taylor

Coldwell Banker United Realtors
Winner of Coldwell Banker International Sterling Society Award
Winner of Coldwell Banker International Diamond Society Award
Ranked in Top 100 Listing Agents CB United -Texas
Multi-Million Dollar Producer

(832) 722-1756
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Private School Education in Pearland

CARDEN JACKSON SCHOOL

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Carden-Jackson offers before- and after- school homework help, 3 year old program, pre-Kindergarten, great public speaking skills development, and a language curriculum second to none. We are a non-denominational school designed to include people of all faiths.
We are not new to the world of teaching children. We have been conveniently located in the heart of Pearland since 1989. We have designed a program with proven results. Not only do we consistently turn out children that excel in school, we proudly focus on character development as well.

Please contact them for a private tour or additional information at 281-485-4677 or visit the website at http://www.cardenjackson.org/index.htm

What are you still waiting for? Let me get your home SOLD!!!

Want to get your property listed? Give me a call, e-mail me or click on the link to the left for a free market analysis.

I look forward to exceeding your service expectations in 2009.

Your Neighbor,

Brian Taylor

Coldwell Banker United Realtors

Winner of Coldwell Banker Sterling Society Award

Ranked in Top 100 Listing Agents CB United -Texas

Multi-Million Dollar Producer

(832) 722-1756

bmtaylor@cbunited.com

America's Unhealthiest Restaurants

Good Afternoon,

Here is another good article I found on Yahoo!Health. You may think twice about where you order your next meal. I know some of them are not around here but some are right around the corner. Check back soon for property updates and neighborhood sales.

Your favorite fast food restaurant is often like your favorite city: Visit some neighborhoods and you live the high life. Visit others and you’re just plain asking for trouble. And that’s where Eat This, Not That! comes in: We’ve analyzed and graded 66 different chain restaurants—fast food and sit-down—to determine which ones have healthy options, and which could turn out to be diet disasters.

What we found will surprise you. Specifically, some of the fast food joints you’ve come to think of as terrible for you actually ranked alright—McDonald’s scored a B+, for example, so the Micky D’s drive-thru just might be your fast-lane to weight loss. Something even more shocking, though: more than half of the sit-down restaurants we graded ended up with our lowest scores!

To separate the commendable from the deplorable, we calculated the total number of calories per entrée. This gave us a snapshot of how each restaurant compared in average serving size—a key indicator of unhealthy portion distortion. Then we rewarded establishments with fruit and vegetable side-dish choices, as well as offering whole-wheat bread. Finally, we penalized places for excessive amounts of trans fats and menus that tempt you with fat-laden desserts. Hey, if the neighborhood is crowded with shady characters, sooner or later, one of them will jump you.Here’s our restaurant report card for some of the unhealthiest restaurants in America. It’ll help you stay on the safer side of town.

D+Baskin-Robbins We thought we'd see some improvements after we identified Baskin's Heath Shake as the Worst Drink on the Planet. All they did was lower it from 2,300 to 1,900 calories, leaving an almost equally egregious drinkable disaster to set back unsuspecting sippers. It’s typical of the menu there; B-R’s soft serve is among the most caloric in the country, the smoothies contain more sugar than fruit, and most of what Baskin sticks into a cup winds up with more fat than what'll end up on your plate at a steakhouse buffet.

Check out our complete list of the 20 Unhealthiest Drinks in America to see the other liquid offenders. If you learn how to make smart choices when you sip, you can lose a few pounds a month—without giving up your favorite foods, or ever dieting again. SURVIVAL STRATEGY: With frozen yogurt, sherbet, and no-sugar-added ice cream, Baskin's lighter menu is the one bright spot. Just be sure to ask for your ice cream in a sugar or cake cone—the waffle cone will swaddle your treat in an extra 160 calories.

D+ Carl’s Jr.Most fast-food restaurants today are making at least some attempt to offset their bulging burgers and deep-fried sides with healthier options such as lean sandwiches or yogurt parfaits. But Carl's Jr. is swimming against the nutritional tide, trying to attract those with hearty appetites and less concern about fat, salt and calories. The lightest item on the breakfast menu, for instance, is the Hash Brown Nuggets—but even they have 21 grams of fat, and 5.5 of them are trans fats. (As a rule, you should try to get 2 grams or fewer of the stuff in an entire day!) The burgers are worse, and there's not a side on the menu that hasn't been given a long, bubbling bath in their trans-fatty frying oil.

SURVIVAL STRATEGY: Find another place to grab lunch. Failing that, you should settle on either the Charbroiled Chicken Salad with Low-Fat Balsamic Dressing or the Charbroiled BBQ Chicken Sandwich—the only sandwich on the menu with fewer than 400 calories.

D+ Denny’s Too bad the adult menu at Denny's doesn't adhere to the same standard as the kids' menu. The famous Slam breakfasts all top 800 calories, and the burgers are even worse. The Double Cheeseburger is one of the worst in the country, with 116 grams of fat, 7 of which are trans fats! (This explains why it made our list of the worst burgers in America (and what you should eat instead). Make sure you try to avoid it (and all others on the list) whenever possible.

SURVIVAL STRATEGY: The Fit Fare menu gathers together all the best options on the menu. Outside of that, stick to the sirloin, grilled chicken, or soups. For breakfast, order a Veggie Cheese Omelet or create your own meal from a la carte options such as fruit, oatmeal, toast, and eggs.

D+Dairy Queen Dairy Queen’s taste for excess rivals that of other fast-food failures such as Carl's Jr. and Hardees. But unlike Carl's, DQ offers an avalanche of ice cream creations to follow up its sodium-spiked, trans-fatty foods. Here's a look at one hypothetical meal: a Bacon Cheddar GrillBurger with Onion Rings and a Small Snickers Blizzard is a staggering 1,740-calorie meal with 2,640 mg sodium and 83 grams of fat—2 grams of which are trans fats.

SURVIVAL STRATEGY: Play solid defense. Skip elaborate burgers, fried sides, and specialty ice cream concoctions entirely. Order a Grilled Chicken Sandwich or an Original Burger, and if you must have a treat, stick to a small soft-serve or a small sundae.

D+ Ruby Tuesday The chain earned its fame from a hearty selection of hamburgers. The problem: They average 75 grams of fat a piece—more than enough to exceed the USDA's recommended limit for the day. Even the veggie and turkey burgers have more than 850 calories! The chain rounds out its menu with a selection of appetizers that hover around 1,000 calories (supposedly to be split 4-ways), a smattering of high-impact entrées like potpie and ribs, and a sloppy selection of salads that is just as bad.

SURVIVAL STRATEGY: Solace lies in the three Ss: steak, seafood, and sides. Sirloins, salmon, and shrimp all make for relatively innocuous eating, especially when paired with one of Ruby Tuesday's half dozen healthy sides such as mashed cauliflower and baby green beans. Other than that, impersonate Mick Jagger and think about occasionally saying goodbye to Ruby Tuesday!

D Chili’s From burgers to baby back ribs, Chili's serves up some of the saltiest and fattiest fare on fast-food row. In fact, with 3,810 mg of sodium and 122 grams of fat, Chili's Smokehouse Bacon Triple Cheese Big Mouth Burger earns the distinction as being one of the worst burgers in America. The Guiltless Grill menu is Chili's attempt to offer healthier options, but with only eight items and an average sodium count of 1,320 mg, there’s meager hope for nutritional salvation.

SURVIVAL STRATEGY: There's not too much to choose from after you omit the ribs, burgers, fajitas, chicken, and salads. You're better off with a Classic Sirloin and steamed vegetables or broccoli. Another decent option is the Chicken Fajita Pita with Black Beans and Pico de Gallo. A lot of the appetizers, while delicious, are worrisome too—one from Chili’s made it on our list of Worst Appetizers in America.

D Uno Chicago Grill Uno has some serious strikes against it: The chain invented the deep-dish pizza, they encouraged gluttony with their Bigger and Better menu, and in 1997 they faced false-advertising charges for erroneously claiming that some of their pizzas were low in fat. They've cleaned up some of the more conspicuous health hazards and have increased nutritional transparency at all of their stores, but from appetizers to desserts, this menu is still riddled with belt-busting fat.

SURVIVAL STRATEGY: First off, cast aside the bloated breadstick that Uno tries to sneak onto most plates. Next, choose flatbread over deep-dish pizzas—it could save you more than 1,000 calories. Beyond that, stick to soups or entree items served with Mango Salsa.

D Chevy’s Don't let the made-fresh-daily shtick distract you; Chevy's massive portions push many of the meals beyond the 1,000-calorie threshold. The taco trader’s menu has three strikes against it: 1.) the consistently high amount of fat in its entrees (the average salad has 67 grams); 2.) the outrageous salt levels that make it difficult to find a meal with fewer than 2,000 mg of sodium (you should get around that amount in an entire day of eating); and 3.) the chain earns its poor score by failing to offer complete nutritional disclosure. It provides no information for its appetizers or quesadillas, for instance, and although it maintains it uses trans-fat free oils, there's no trans-fat data for the full entrees.

SURVIVAL STRATEGY: The best items on the menu are the Homemade Tortilla Soup, with just 393 calories and a full 26 grams of protein, and the Santa Fe Chopped Salad, which has only 470 calories when you order it without cheese. If you can't resist an entrée, order it without all the fixin's—tamalito, rice, sour cream, and cheese. That should knock more than 300 calories off your meal.

D-On the Border On the Border is a subsidiary of Brinker International, the same parent company that owns Chili's and Romano's Macaroni Grill. It should come as no surprise then that this chain is just as threatening to your health as its corporate cohorts. The overloaded menu offers appetizers with 120 grams of fat, salads with a full day's worth of sodium, and taco entrées with an horrific 960 calories—and that’s the calculation without rice and beans. Border crossing is a decidedly dangerous enterprise.

SURVIVAL STRATEGY: The Border Smart Menu highlights four items with fewer than 600 calories and 25 grams of fat. Those aren't great numbers considering they average 1,800 mg of sodium apiece, but that's all you've got to work with.

D-Romano’s Macaroni Grill For years now we've been on Romano's case to clean up the menu at the beloved Macaroni Grill. So far we've had no luck. This Italian grease spot serves some of the worst appetizers in the country, offers not one dinner entrée with fewer than 800 calories, and hosts no fewer than 60 menu items with more than 2,000 mg of sodium—almost an entire day’s worth of the salt! A select few menu items earn the restaurant's Sensible Fare logo—a fork with a halo over it—but unfortunately these items can still carry up to 640 calories and 25 grams of fat.

SURVIVAL STRATEGY: Macaroni Grill will let you build your own dish. Ask for the marinara over a bed of the restaurant's whole-wheat penne, and then top it with grilled chicken and steamed vegetables. Just beware their salads—one of them made our list of America’s Worst Salads!

D-Baja Fresh It's a surprise Baja Fresh's menu has yet to collapse under the weight of its own fatty fare. About a third of the items on the menu have more than 1,000 calories, and most of them are spiked with enough sodium to melt a polar icecap. Order the Shrimp Burrito Dos Manos Enchilado-Style, for instance, and you're looking at 5,130 mg sodium—that's more than 2 days' worth in one sitting!

SURVIVAL STRATEGY: Unless you're comfortable stuffing 110 grams of fat into your arteries, avoid the nachos at all costs. In fact, avoid almost everything on this menu. The only safe options are the tacos, or a salad topped with salsa verde and served without the belly-busting tortilla bowl.

F Applebee’s, IHOP, Outback, T.G.I. Friday’s These titans of the restaurant industry are among the last national chains that don’t offer nutritional information on their dishes. Even after years of badgering their representatives, we still hear the same old excuses: it’s too pricey, it’s too time-consuming, it’s impossible to do accurately because their food is so fresh, or we have too much variety. Our response is simple: If nearly every other chain restaurant in the country can do it, then why can’t they?

Your Survival Strategy: Write letters, make phone calls, beg, scream, and plead for these restaurants to provide nutritional information on all of their products.
Here’s the contact information for each of the restaurants that refuse to fess up!

Applebees: 888-59APPLE, or send an e-mail
IHOP: 818-240-6055 (press 1 for Guest Visit issues)
Outback: Send an e-mail
T.G.I. Friday's: 800-FRIDAYS

For a comprehensive Restaurant Report Card on all of the other fast food and chain restaurants, please click here for the whole list.

You can also join the Eat This, Not That! premium Web site, which acts as a 24-hour-a-day online personal nutritionist, offering other useful tips, tricks, hints, and insights into navigating the restaurant industry’s nutritional landmines and making the best eating choices each and every time. Or, check out the regular site for other great articles—like the 20 worst foods of 2009 and the 20 most sugar-packed foods in America.


What are you still waiting for? Let me get your home SOLD!!!
Want to get your property listed? Give me a call, e-mail me or click on the link to the left for a free market analysis.
I look forward to exceeding your service expectations in 2009.

Your Neighbor,
Brian Taylor

Coldwell Banker United Realtors
Winner of Coldwell Banker Sterling Society Award
Ranked in Top 100 Listing Agents CB United -Texas
Multi-Million Dollar Producer

(832) 722-1756
bmtaylor@cbunited.com

JUST SOLD !!!!

Good Evening,

Quick update on a recent listing that I posted last month.

The home at 1321 Avenue M in Galveston has JUST SOLD!!! The home was on the market for only 32 days and SOLD for over list price.

What are you still waiting for? Let me get your home SOLD!!!

Want to get your property listed? Give me a call, e-mail me or click on the link to the left for a free market analysis.

I look forward to exceeding your service expectations in 2009.

Your Neighbor,

Brian Taylor

Coldwell Banker United Realtors

Winner of Coldwell Banker Sterling Society Award

Ranked in Top 100 Listing Agents CB United -Texas

Multi-Million Dollar Producer

(832) 722-1756

bmtaylor@cbunited.com

Budgets are the New Black

Good Morning,

I have a great article that I read in

USAA Magazine Spring 2009.

It was about how to budget your money and to reduce your frivolous spending. I want to share a excerpt from the article from award winning journalist, best selling author and motivational speaker Ms. Jean Chatzky.

KNOW WHERE YOUR MONEY
SHOULD GO
Seeing where the money is going is an
eye-opening experience. Most people
have no idea that they’re dropping $100
a month, say, on birthday gifts for all
the parties their children attend, or that
those weekly trips to the dry cleaner
add up to such big bucks. Many people
know how much of their money goes
to pay the cell phone bill — but haven’t
stopped to see how big a slice of their
spending pie that has become.

Here’s a look at how your budget
should break down. This is where
your net income goes, by the way, not
your gross.

■ Housing: 35 percent. This includes not
just your rent or mortgage, but utilities,
maintenance, taxes and insurance.

■ Transportation: 15 percent. Again, not
just your car loan, but the money to pay
for gas, parking and upkeep, as well as
any taxis or public transportation.

■ Other debt repayment: 15 percent.
Not your mortgage or car loan, but student
loans, credit cards or other debts.

■ Savings: 10 percent.

Non-negotiable.

■ Life: 25 percent.

This is everything
else. Your clothing, travel, health
care, fun.

There is only one rule: Borrowing
is allowed, except from savings. You
may need to borrow from one bucket
to supplement another — particularly if
you live in a part of the country where
it’s nearly impossible to bring that housing
cost in under 40 percent. As I noted
above, that 10 percent allocated to savings
(which includes any contribution
you make to a retirement account) is
non-negotiable.

What are you still waiting for? Let me get your home SOLD!!!

Want to get your property listed? Give me a call, e-mail me or click on the link to the left for a free market analysis.

I look forward to exceeding your service expectations in 2009.

Your Neighbor,

Brian Taylor

Coldwell Banker United Realtors

Winner of Coldwell Banker Sterling Society Award

Ranked in Top 100 Listing Agents CB United -Texas

Multi-Million Dollar Producer

(832) 722-1756

bmtaylor@cbunited.com

JUST SOLD !!!!

Good evening to all of my friends, neighbors.

Just giving you a quick update on the listing located at 3045 Marina Bay Dr #10307.

I have JUST SOLD this property but check back for more properties to be coming soon to the market.

What are you still waiting for? Let me get your home SOLD!!!

Want to get your property listed? Give me a call, e-mail me or click on the link to the left for a free market analysis.

I look forward to exceeding your service expectations in 2009.

Your Neighbor,

Brian Taylor

Coldwell Banker United Realtors

Winner of Coldwell Banker Sterling Society Award

Ranked in Top 100 Listing Agents CB United -Texas

Multi-Million Dollar Producer

(832) 722-1756

bmtaylor@cbunited.com

Weekly Motivational

Good Evening,

I hope that everyone had a great weekend and got outside enjoyed the fantastic weather. It was a really pleasant day today so here is a little something else to keep you going this week.


"The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."

Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878 - 1969)


What are you still waiting for? Let me get your home SOLD!!!

Want to get your property listed? Give me a call, e-mail me or click on the link to the left for a free market analysis.

I look forward to exceeding your service expectations in 2009.

Your Neighbor,
Brian Taylor

Coldwell Banker United Realtors
Winner of Coldwell Banker Sterling Society Award
Ranked in Top 100 Listing Agents CB United -Texas
Multi-Million Dollar Producer

(832) 722-1756
bmtaylor@cbunited.com

Heritage Park February Home Sales

Good Morning Friends and Neighbors,

Things are heating up in Heritage Park!!! We have increased our homes SOLD from last month and we are about a month and a half away from the true selling season. It will be the Friendswood Home Sales February 2009 followed by Webster Home Sales February 2009.

February- Friendswood Home Sales
# of Homes Sold - 12
Avg. List Price - $141,991
Avg. Sales Price - $136,955
Avg Sq. Ft. - 1,878 Sq.Ft.
Avg. Lot - 7,136 Sq.Ft.
DOM - 77 days
$/Sq. Ft. - $72.93/Sq.Ft.

February- Webster Home Sales

# of Homes Sold - 2
Avg. List Price - $103,250
Avg. Sales Price - $90,100
Avg. Sq. Ft - 1,872 Sq.Ft.
Avg.Lot - 7,935 Sq.Ft.
DOM - 84 days
$/Sq. Ft. - $48.13/Sq.Ft.

Active Homes- 28
Option Pending/Show- 13

What are you still waiting for? Let me get your home SOLD!!!

Want to get your property listed? Give me a call, e-mail me or click on the link to the left for a free market analysis.

I look forward to exceeding your service expectations in 2009.

Your Neighbor,
Brian Taylor
Coldwell Banker United Realtors

Winner of Coldwell Banker Sterling Society Award
Ranked in Top 100 Listing Agents CB United -Texas
Multi-Million Dollar Producer

(832) 722-1756
bmtaylor@cbunited.com

JUST LISTED !!!!

Hello friends and neighbors!

I have a new listing for all you investors and handy people out there.

I have JUST LISTED the home located at 7102 Jones in Galveston,TX

The home has been gutted down to the studs and is ready for a complete remodel. Once complete you will have your own vacation home or rental property that is just minutes from Moody Gardens, the beach and Schlitterbahn Waterpark.

The homes design layout is a three or four bedroom, two bath home with a formal living and dining room. Home has a area for the den and breakfast room. Patio and detached garage located on a corner lot.

Home is being offer at $85,000 but seller is motivated and will consider all reasonable offers.

What are you still waiting for? Let me get your home SOLD!!!

Want to get your property listed? Give me a call, e-mail me or click on the link to the left for a free market analysis.

I look forward to exceeding your service expectations in 2009.

Your Neighbor,

Brian Taylor

Coldwell Banker United Realtors

Winner of Coldwell Banker Sterling Society Award

Ranked in Top 100 Listing Agents CB United -Texas

Multi-Million Dollar Producer

(832) 722-1756

bmtaylor@cbunited.com

Weekly Motivational

Good Day To All!

I have another quote to share with you today and hopefully it will make you think. Enjoy!

"Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise."

William Congreve (1670 - 1729)


What are you still waiting for? Let me get your home SOLD!!!

Want to get your property listed? Give me a call, e-mail me or click on the link to the left for a free market analysis.

I look forward to exceeding your service expectations in 2009.

Your Neighbor,
Brian Taylor
Coldwell Banker United Realtors

Winner of Coldwell Banker Sterling Society Award
Ranked in Top 100 Listing Agents CB United -Texas
Multi-Million Dollar Producer
(832) 722-1756
bmtaylor@cbunited.com