For owners & sellers
FSBO in Texas: Selling Without an Agent
For-sale-by-owner in Texas: TREC forms, seller's disclosure, contracts, title, earnest money, marketing, showings, negotiation, and closing without a listing agent.
The Lead-Based Paint Addendum (OP-L) for San Antonio Homes Built Before 1978
If your San Antonio home was built before 1978, the Lead-Based Paint Addendum (TREC OP-L) is not optional — it's federal law. Here's exactly what a FSBO seller has to disclose, deliver, and document.
7 min read · Apr 21, 2026
Closing a Bexar County FSBO Sale: Title, Survey, HOA, and the Real Sequence From Contract to Funding
The option period ends and the buyer's lender takes over. Here is the actual order of events from executed TREC 20-17 to funded deed at a Bexar County title company — and where FSBO sellers lose two weeks they did not need to lose.
7 min read · Apr 21, 2026
Handling Offers From Buyer's Agents as a Texas FSBO Seller
Most FSBO offers in Bexar County come from a licensed buyer's agent, not the buyer. Here is how to read the paperwork, negotiate commission, and protect yourself without a listing agent.
7 min read · Apr 21, 2026
Pricing a Bexar County FSBO Without an Agent's CMA
How to build a defensible list price for a San Antonio FSBO using BCAD data, public MLS snapshots, and the same comp logic agents use — without paying for a CMA.
7 min read · Apr 21, 2026
Flat-Fee MLS Listings in San Antonio: How FSBO Sellers Get Into SABOR Without a Full-Service Agent
A flat-fee MLS service gets your San Antonio FSBO listing into SABOR's MLS — the same database Realtors search — without hiring a 3% listing agent. Here is what you actually get, what you still have to do, and where sellers lose money.
6 min read · Apr 21, 2026
Earnest Money in a Texas FSBO Sale: Who Holds It, Who Keeps It, and How Disputes Actually Resolve
Earnest money looks simple on TREC 20-17 until a deal falls apart. Here is how escrow works in a Texas FSBO sale, when the buyer gets it back, when the seller is entitled to it, and what happens when both sides refuse to sign the release.
6 min read · Apr 21, 2026
The Seller's Disclosure Notice (OP-H): What Texas FSBO Sellers Must Reveal
A clause-by-clause read of the Texas Seller's Disclosure Notice for FSBO sellers in Bexar County — what Property Code § 5.008 actually requires, what's optional, and the omissions that get sellers sued after closing.
7 min read · Apr 21, 2026
Reading TREC 20-17 Clause by Clause as a Texas FSBO Seller
A paragraph-by-paragraph walkthrough of the TREC One to Four Family Residential Contract (Resale) from the seller's side, with the clauses that actually move money and the ones that trap FSBO sellers.
7 min read · Apr 21, 2026