The Jones Team Blog

Humidity, it’s as much a part of living in Houston as chili cook-offs and the Livestock Show and Rodeo. When we talk about humidity down here, we are usually complaining about how soupy the air feels. This is one of the few places where you can work up a sweat just standing outside. We often joke about adding a disclosure about the temperatures and humidity our relocating families will experience during their first summer.

Going green...everybody is doing it.  Energy efficiency is all the rage as builders continually try to one-up each other with lots of different strategies and changes to the quality they include.  What used to be an upgrade in many instances is now a standard feature.

We spent some time in another post discussing two stategies to make your offer more attractive to a seller, especially in the case of multiple offers on the same home.  When you've found the home that is right for you, we want you to be in the best position possible so your offer will not only be accepted, but the seller would feel like your offer was infinantly safer and more stable than those competing buye

I just wanted to give everyone an early heads up. Usually around the end of February or the beginning of March, or the first warm spell of the year people may start seeing termite swarmers flying around. Typically people will see them flying around trees or in flower beds. If this is the case don't be alarmed. This is normal for early spring weather. The time to get alarmed is when you see them flying or crawling inside your house

In a vote held on Monday evening, the Katy ISD Board of Trustees approved a plan to allow families impacted by the attendance boundry modification a one-time Volunteer Enrollment Option (VEO).  This option will allow students currently enrolled in high school to choose to remain at their current school or to voluntarily move to the

Monday will be a big day for the residents of Katy, particularly for those Katy households zoned to Cinco Ranch, Seven Lakes, and Taylor high schools. The Katy independent School District school board will be meeting on Monday, February 22, 2010 to vote on a high school rezoning plan for the 2010-2011 school year. The rezoning will redistribute students among the three mentioned high schools, and is an effort to relieve overcrowding.

Putting your home on the market can be an intimidating experience for a lot of different reasons. Emotional responses to the idea of having strangers walk through your home can range from “it feels a little weird” to “I’m having trouble sleeping at night”. Safety is a concern when selling your home; after all, that is one of the major reasons we REALTORS® will site for hiring a professional instead of attempting to sell on your own.

Working with The Jones Team means you will have a team of real estate professionals watching out for you, guiding you through the buying or selling process, consulting every step of the way.  One of the many services we offer our clients is our list of service professionals in a wide variety of industries.  You can think of us as your own personal BBB.  We give our clients the opportunity to work with like minded professionals who share our passion for customer service and the well being of the families we help.  One of these professionals is Sc

Shopping for a new home is an exciting time.  Sorting through the huge number of homes on the market can feel a lot like dating, and when you find that perfect one that's when the stress can set in.  We often caution folks when they find a home that is perfect.  The home you saw today that you want to sleep on and think about will be purchased by the couple that saw it yesyerday and slept on it last night!

By now we’ve all heard about the Homebuyer Tax Credit. We may not know all the ends and outs about it (our friends and family members have gotten the scoop), but we know there is an opportunity to save some money for the right people. But were you aware that there are other programs out there that can save you even more money when purchasing a home.