Outdoor Living Ideas for Your next Frisco TX Home

Your home is more than a house.

When searching for a home, the first things that strike you are the design and structure. Color, symmetry, and style are some of the obvious elements that also play a big part in whether you will view a home or not.

 

While these are all key factors to consider, remember that the house is a piece of the whole puzzle. There are other things that are important to consider about buying a property.

To some buyers, the outdoor living spaces make or break a deal. This may be a deal breaker for you too.

Discover the outdoor living space that’s right for you.

Below is a list of outdoor living space ideas that you can check out in the homes for sale in Northwest Frisco.

1. Outdoor Seating

If you are fond of entertaining guests, check out the outdoor space. See if you can make multiple seating zones that serve different purposes.

Can you put up a hammock for your lazy afternoons? How about lounge chairs to read a book or enjoy your favorite cup of coffee?

If nature surrounds you, get inspired and discover how you can maximize the patio or the deck. You can even do your work here, for a change, and get those creative juices flowing.

2. Outdoor Kitchen

Do you want a big or small kitchen?  Will you want bar seating or wine fridges?  Do you want a pizza oven or an electric grill? Get excited to see the various outdoor kitchens among the Central Frisco homes for sale.

Remember that you can always include more outdoor kitchen amenities. Smokers, ice makers, and warming drawers are only a few things you can add to your list. The amenities you need depend on the activities you’re going to do outdoors.

 

Do you have children at home? You can even have two refrigerators installed on your kitchen island. One is for the adult drinks and the other for children’s refreshments.

 

3. Outdoor Fire

If you enjoy time outside with your family and friends, an outdoor fire is what you need. It is the best place to enjoy with your loved ones, regardless of the season and especially on cold days.

 

Sing together while roasting hotdogs or marshmallows around your fire pit. Now, there is no need to travel away from home to enjoy each other’s stories over an open flame. Enjoy the star-studded sky by the outdoor fireplace.

 

Whether you bond by the fireplace or around the fire pit, your home can be a symbol of good food and good relations. Imagine that as you walk through each home you view and visit.

Do you want them all?

Which outdoor living space do you want in your home?

Remember that the outdoor space is as important as the indoor area.  Know the purpose your outdoor space needs to serve. This will make your search for the Central Frisco homes for sale like a walk in the park.

Grab your bag and start viewing today!

Tell us your desired outdoor living ideas for your next home and we’ll help you find it.

Call us, Loreena Yeo and Michael Yeo, at (214) 783-2210 today to start your exciting real estate journey.

You can also check out our website http://www.316RealEstate.com to find out more about homes for sale in Frisco TX.

In case you can not view this video here, please click the link below to view Outdoor Living Ideas for Your next Frisco TX Home on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP0VE5MwC9Q&feature=youtu.be

Should I Use a Realtor to Sell My Frisco TX House?

This is 2017 when this article is published and here in the surrounding Frisco, Prosper, North Dallas area, real estate market is still booming hot. This article is really not to convince you if you should use a real estate agent to sell your home but just some of our personal experiences of why – if we were a home seller, we would not consider NOT using one.

It’s a HOT SELLER’S MARKET. Anything sells. So it seems. Why should you consider hiring a real estate agent?

Well, as they say, “You don’t know what you don’t know” until you are faced with what you needed to know. While every buyer and seller know what a HOT SELLER’s MARKET is,

1.Does a seller know how does a potential home buyer react in a hot seller’s market?

2. Does a seller know what are the right questions to ask the potential buyer(s) when showing the property? Did the seller share too much information that is detrimental to his/ her sale?

We are typically “nice” friendly people. But sometimes saying “too much” gives your negotiation power away. Sometimes saying “not enough” may seem like you are hiding something.

3. There are over 30+ items to negotiate on a sales contract not yet to include the addenda that come with it. Most often, buyers and sellers focus on the price but as our real estate experiences show, it does not always boil down to price. Closing dates, possession, other non-realty items are some of the other things that may come into play.

Then, how about objections to other documents that come back in after title search or HOA documents?

There are big things to negotiate on the contract. Then, there are some items that are not so important. Could you identify them correctly?

4. How about delivery of money, documents, etc.? Would you know when what is due?

It is not our intention to scare you away by trying to do it yourself. Most of the time, our observations about sellers who try to avoid a seller representing them may not even know how to negotiate to protect themselves. Yet the transaction went well. But sometimes, not every Frisco TX home seller is that lucky.

Some form of representation is always better than none, especially when you hire a fully qualified, high-octane real estate agent to represent you.

5. Do you know how to handle multiple offer situation? What may be the steps in doing that? However, most often than not, most individual home sellers who sell their home individually do not experience multiple offers because they don’t know:

a. How to drum up multiple offers?

b. What to do with multiple offers? (when it happens)

c. How to correctly negotiate multiple offers?

d. How to evaluate all the offers that come in?

6. Buyer qualification is HUGE. Not all buyers are pre-qualified the same way. Would you know how to screen them?

And before all these contract negotiation opportunities, do you know what and how to prepare your home to give it its most deserving appeal to the most amount of buyers?

There is never a perfect home out there (yes, although you might think so). Do you know what are the items that really need to focus on when selling? Which are less important to buyers?

Do you know how to secure your property during showings? Do you know who is entering your house and if the reason is truly to potentially buy your home?

I do think I should stop now. Otherwise, it would be very overwhelming. You get the gist.

A good real estate agent knows how to get top dollar for your property in the least amount of inconveniences and heartache because a real estate transaction is very emotional, especially when it is talking about your home, where all your memories were made.

It’s best to leave it to the professional.

In case you can not view this video here, please click the link below to view Should I Use a Realtor to Sell My Frisco TX House on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/c8DibgKnq-I

Should I Use a Real Estate Buyer’s Agent?

I could completely understand that everyone wants a “good” deal when buying anything at all. I do! I do! I certainly do understand! I’m so frugal with money that it would hurt me thinking I spent a penny more than I should.

I had a wonderful client who just started his process of “considering” a move closer to work. Nothing too serious. Therefore, he didn’t call me first. Then, he visited an Open House of a house that peeked his interest. At the Open House, he was greeted by the Listing Agent (LA). The LA mentioned to my client, “Without an agent (representing you), the Seller can sell the house $10,000 cheaper”.

He called me after the Open House.

My honest answer is that I couldn’t give him a non-biased answer because so much of what I would make is tied to the answer.

I said, “If I wasn’t an agent but just a friend, I’d say Use an agent 100% of the time”. He doesn’t know what he doesn’t know. Guess who is the Listing Agent there to represent? (Seller).

What happens during the inspection negotiation? Will he receive a fair repair negotiation that serves him and his family well?

We discussed about the house the next day after I had a chance to see it in person. Great home with alot of character. But knowing him (& his life season), it wouldn’t fit his lifestyle because of some flaws of the floorplan. And how that impacts resale when he does go to sell it. These may be just some conversations he wouldn’t have with the Listing Agent – who is there to sell the house!

I had to bring the question up again. If all the unknowns he’s about to step into is worth 10K more to him.

I felt bad in that situation because I felt like a 10K burden. But in fact, because that didn’t work out, it caused him to look in another area and he would spend 100K less than when he could jump into that deal and charging on that path.

So, should a buyer use a Real Estate Buyer’s Agent? Every. Single. Time.

When you ask "How Are You" – Do You Mean It?

When my husband and I came to the US, we found that alot of “Americans” were very “fast” people – I guess we came from a different culture and a different way of doing things… You can say that at the tender age of 21 and 23, we were very naive. We really thought – what we thought were “friends” really asked, “How are you?” and they meant it…. Nope…. It’s just an American way of greeting. Right after that, they do not care for an answer and soon we learnt to be “fast” ourselves….. Never really cared for an answer. “Great….. How about you?” We learnt that that’s the right response. For years, my dear husband and I never really had “real, honest” friends who cared about people as people.

This is not a bashful post. It is not intended to be this way. But read on….
Until we found Hope – our home church….. It’s very amazing, isnt it? Hope Fellowship is our church – we were new believers 4 years ago. Hope is our home and Hope is where we saw people really caring for one another…

To the congregation of Hope Fellowship of Frisco, Texas:

Thanks for being the people we can count on. I know that I feel it’s an honor when people tell me that they can see the love of Jesus shines through me… Now, I am passing the honor over to you. I can feel the love of Jesus out-pouring over you….. Make it a great day for our Lord, my friends!!!

If you are church-shopping, do stop at Hope. Come by the Coffee Bar area to say “Hi”…. I am there most of the time. We have 4 services (from Saturday evenings at 6:00pm and Sunday services from 8:30am, 10:00am and 11:30am). Youth activities and Adult classes on Wednesday nights too…..

Hope Fellowship
9950 Rolater Road
Frisco TX 75035
(Between Preston Road and Hillcrest off of Rolater)

Senior Pastor:
John McKinzie

John is such a cool pastor. He started Hope Fellowship in 2001. John is married to Melissa and has 4 beautiful children. When you look into his eyes, you see that he really cares. I have never seen such real caring eyes

Hope Fellowship is a non-denominational church and our worship service rocks!!! At Hope, we believe that worship is more than a song. It is the way we live and the way we treat people. Because people are very important to God, it becomes important to us too….