Austin Real Estate Scene

Do you have a horrible neighbor? If you do and don’t tell other people you are hurting future buyers in your neighborhood. These people can make life miserable for an entire neighborhood.

When I started real estate in the early 90′s there was NO internet to search for this kind of info about what kind of people live in your area. Now you can run web searches for the lasted trends or info on just about anywhere in the world. I wish I had access to this info back 15 years ago.

I can remember and old client who moved in to a northwest Austin neighbhorhood and found out he had a bad neighbor. It was nice house and clean yard, but there were some very scary folks that came over the that house everyday. After about 3 months my client found out from the police that that owner of the house was a drug dealer…

If you knew you there were rotten neighbors you would probably not buy that home in that area.  I still think the best way to discover what a neighborhood is really like, then go to the area during different times of the day and night so you can really see what’s going on. Talk with the people in the area about what they think about it. This way you can Believe your own eyes and ears about what is going on.

If you want to search the web to see who your lousy, nosy, scary, and trashy neighbors on in the ‘hood… Click here to visit Rotten Neighbor.

If you know you have bad neighbors them you check out this article on the how to deal with those horrible folks. Watch the news story on NBC’s Today Show.