What's Good To Know?

What to know about homes on private roads.

Not all Texas homes are accessible from public roads. Private roads are roads on private property and generally do not receive public services. They can be found in rural areas as well as gated communities and subdivisions.

The Texas Transportation Code allows the owners of private roads to regulate or prohibit their use. But that doesn’t always mean anything goes. In some situations, property owners or a subdivision governing body can have arranged for the county to extend speed limits and traffic enforcement to private roads. Additionally, local ordinances could potentially govern the availability of certain municipal or county services available for properties located on or adjacent to a private road.

If you are interested in a home on a private road, find out how the road is maintained. Often there’s a homeowners association or private road maintenance agreement in place. Some lenders—including VA, FHA, USDA, and Fannie Mae—may require permanent easements allowing use of a shared private road and/or an HOA or maintenance agreement before approving a home loan. Home buyers should speak with a private attorney if they have any specific questions regarding the road agreements or easements in place for a particular home.

See more at www.julesheggen.com
 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Contact Person: Jules Heggenstaller

Company Name: Jules Realty Group, LLC

Telephone Number: 832.599.8572

Email Address: jules@julesheggen.com

Website address: julesheggen.com

Jules Heggenstaller Earns NAR Short Sales and Foreclosure Resource® Certification

Buyers and Sellers Benefit from REALTOR^® Expertise in Distressed Sales

Houston, TX August 17, 2020 — Jules Heggenstaller with Jules Realty Group LLC, Southern Star Realty has earned the nationally recognized Short Sales and Foreclosure Resource certification. The National Association of REALTORS^® offers the SFR® certification to REALTORS^® who want to help both buyers and sellers navigate these complicated transactions, as demand for professional expertise with distressed sales grows.

REALTORS^® who have earned the SFR® certification know how to help sellers maneuver the complexities of short sales as well as help buyers pursue short sale and foreclosure opportunities.

The certification program includes training on how to qualify sellers for short sales, negotiate with lenders, protect buyers, and limit risk, and provides resources to help REALTORS^® stay current on national and state-specific information as the market for these distressed properties evolves. To earn the SFR® certification, REALTORS^Ò are required to be in good standing with the National Association of REALTORS®, and complete REBAC’s Short Sales and Foreclosures: What Real Estate Professionals Need to Know course. For more information about the SFR® certification, visit www.REALTORSFR.org.

You may have heard that design is best left to the professionals, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t give it a go yourself. If you have a good eye for design and the skills to create something truly unique, taking on a project as a non designer can be beneficial. However, it’s important to have a good idea of what you are doing and what you want to achieve.

Top Design Tips for Non Designers

• Use a Lot of Contrast - It doesn't matter what you are designing, it is important that you use plenty of contrast between the background and font. You should choose a background color and font color that are very different so as not to cause eye strain when someone is reading the text. You will find that black text and a white background work extremely well, whereas light grays and yellows do not. You don’t want people to have to squint to read anything on the design.
• Choose Almost Black Over Black - Don’t make the mistake of assuming that there is only one type of black color, as this is not the case. Rather than using pure black for text, choose almost black as this is a lot easier to read when it is on a white background.

• Place Important Content First - One of the most important things to think about is placement and layout. When you are designing anything, you should place important information first. You only have a few seconds to engage and interest the audience,which is why the key facts need to be the first thing they see. All important information should be placed at the top of the design and visible from a distance.
• Align Everything - If something doesn't feel right about your design, take a look at the alignment. When the alignment is off, aspects of the design can feel out of place and messy. It’s a lot more aesthetically pleasing to have everything aligned, neat and organized.
• Design in Black and White First - Though you will surely be creating colourful artwork, start off by designing in black and white. Once you have added individual elements and are happy with the layout, add color. This will help you to focus on the design itself, rather than focusing too much on whether or not you are choosing the right colors.  Color evolves emotions, which can make it difficult to see design problems.

Taking on a new design project as a non designer can be daunting, but there’s nothing to say that you can’t create a fantastic logo or banner. Regardless of what you are designing, think carefully about the colors you are using and the layout of text, images and graphics. You should want your design to be unique and intriguing, but you don’t want it to be complicated and confusing. Remember advertisers (the clients your designing for) want a return on investment.  So you’ll soon know if your designs are working or not. If you’d like to find out about measuring ROI – read this Ultimate Banners article.

Author:

Nichelle Antoque
Content Outreach Manager
Ultimate Banners  

Here at Jules Realty Group, we are honoring all veterans with $600 toward their home listing or purchase. How do you get this? Just sign up with JRG by November 30th, 2020 to sell or buy a home by October 31, 2021 and it will be applied when you close!

Start here at https://bit.ly/VeteransSpecialist