We look forward to serving you!

Bernice Maez

REALTOR® , GRI, IRES, CDPE
Mobile: 214-773-7460
Fax: 972-314-9435
bernicemaez@remax.net

The Maez Group Real Estate

Featured in Texas Monthly as
“Texas Best Realtors”

There’s nothing better than starting the new year with a clean slate!  Here are five ways to a new you and a new year!

1.  Put Pen to Paper- *Write down your goals for the new year and put them somewhere visible.  I use a whiteboard but a sticky note will do.  Look at your goals on a daily basis and stick to them.  Remember to make them attainable but not easy.

*Interesting Fact: A popular Harvard Business School study once found that only 3% of the population records their goals in writing. Another 14% have goals but don’t write them down, whereas 83% do not even have clearly defined goals. More interesting is that this 3% earned an astounding ten times that of the 83% group!

2.  Change of Pace- Try switching up your routine.  Take up a new hobby or a new workout routine.  With that being said be more active.  Trying new activities and taking on a new hobby stimulates the mind and helps keep you focused.  So take a different route home, try a new food, learn a new language.  Mix it up a bit.

3.  Get a Raise- Some of your dreams will never be actualized without the proper amount of income.  Put the wheels in motion to approach your boss for a raise.  Be prepared to prove your worth with milestones at your company.  If you’re in salesperson or a business owner try and top your highest sales.  After all, you deserve it.

4.  Upgrade Your Look- Let’s face it, if you haven’t been shopping for clothing in the past two years it’s due time.  Upgrading your wardrobe will give you a huge confidence boost.  The better you look the better you feel about yourself and the more people will want to work with you, befriend you and look up to you.  Try a new haircut and don’t be afraid to try some new looks.  Stay away from trendy looks but look to quality pieces that you can wear multiple ways.

5.  Get The Monkey Off Your Back- Personal relationships bringing you down, debt, taxes, messy home or unfinished projects…time to tackle them all.  Yes, we will always have problems but there’s no reason for a monkey on your back.  Get the monkey off and start to live your life.  Breakdown all of your monkeys on a piece of paper and tackle them one by one, it’s easier then you think.  Anything you can’t do, delegate.  In the long run you will be much happier and will move forward toward a new you!

Thank you for your readership and your business,

The Maez Group-

What’s on the mind of every home buyer and home owner is what is the real estate outlook for 2010?  Well, the good news is things are getting back to normal.  Although numbers are down in some locations.  There is a positive sign that we have hit the bottom and are on our way back to the top.

Click here to review an animated chart of how your neighborhood looks.

Now that the holidays are over Sellers are putting homes on the market and Buyers are taking advantage of the tax credit.  There is still a surplus of foreclosures and short sales but according to a recent comment by D Magazine Correspondent, Candy Evans, the good news is “investors are coming back into the market, buying up foreclosures to re-sell or rent.”

This also presents a great opportunity for home buyers to take advantage of great foreclosure deals.  On a whole the country’s outlook is good Freddie Mac’s chief economist Frank Nothaft, said: “The Federal Reserve recently reported positive news in both the housing market and the overall state of the economy in its January 13 regional economic report….Economic activity improved in 10 of its 12 districts.

Home sales…increased due in part to the home-buyer tax credit and house prices appeared to have changed little since its last report.” The bottom in home pricing appears to have formed in many areas of the country.

This makes the outlook for the Texas real estate market in 2010 even more positive.  The Texas job market is still healthy with more created every day and the real estate is very affordable with .  Now is a great time to buy and if you already own a great time to buy an investment with all time low interest rates and prices.