Conner Nielsen - DFW Realtor

Conner Nielsen - DFW Realtor Buy + sell across Parker & Tarrant County
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09/24/2026

Same price. Fort Worth and Aledo. One of them has a backyard.

Same beds, same baths, basically the same house.

Fort Worth gets you 0.121 acres. Aledo gets you 3.5 acres.

That’s usually the real decision, and nobody frames it that way until they’ve stood in both yards.

Send this to whoever you’re having this argument with

09/23/2026

I’ve sold a boatload of houses in Parker County and I can’t get my cows back in.

Three got out three hours of me trying then the neighbor showed up two minutes later they’re home

And I’m the one that feeds them…

09/22/2026

The most expensive mistake I see first-time sellers make is getting offended by the first offer.

It’s your house. You painted that bedroom. Someone offers under what you think it’s worth and it feels like an insult.

It isn’t. It’s a buyer who walked through, liked it enough to call a lender, and wrote an offer. In this market that’s not something to wave off.

Ignore it or send back full price and they buy something else. Then you’re waiting on the next buyer, who usually shows up later and with less.

Counter every offer. Meet them partway on price, or ask for something back: a shorter option period, a faster close, fewer repairs. You’d be surprised how often a low offer turns into a deal once somebody picks up the phone.

Would you counter a lowball, or ignore it?

09/17/2026

Do you need your own agent to buy new construction? No.

You don’t. People do it every day and most of them are fine.

Here’s what’s actually true, though. The person in the sales office works for the builder. That’s not a knock on them, it’s their job and most of them are good at it. But nobody in that room is on your side of the table unless you brought them.

The contract isn’t the TREC form every other house in Texas runs on. It’s the builder’s own paperwork, written by the builder’s attorneys.

And the price doesn’t drop because you came alone. Builders hold the base price because a discount turns into a low comp against every lot they’ve still got to sell. They’ll move on incentives instead. Different conversation.

The one that costs people: most builders have a registration policy, and it turns on the first time you walk in. Tour the model without your agent and in a lot of communities you can’t add one to that deal later. It’s usually not reversible, and nobody tells you it’s happening while you’re signing the guest book.

Which builder are you looking at? Comment it and I’ll tell you what I know about how they run their process. If you’d rather not say it publicly, my DMs work the same.

09/16/2026

Last night there were 25-30 people eating in my kitchen. Most of them were clients first.

Tacos, once a month. No pitch, no business cards, nobody gets a follow up call the next morning.

For most of them the house part ended years ago and they still drive out for it.

People ask if they can come. You can. I’ll call you first, because my kids are in that room and I’m not handing out my address to somebody I’ve never talked to. That call isn’t a sales call. It’s me meeting you.

Message me this month and I’ll see you at the next one.

09/15/2026

My kid’s definition of helping.

Sixteen months old, out at the ranch. The pile is exactly where it started.

Everybody tells you this is the good stuff and it probably is. It’s also just a floor that isn’t swept. Both of those are true and only one of them ever gets said.

He gets the broom again tomorrow.

What’s your kid’s version of helping?

09/14/2026

$500,000 in Weatherford and $500,000 in Aledo are two completely different houses.

Pulled both this morning. Residential closings between $450K and $550K over the last twelve months, same filters, one town at a time.

Weatherford, 54 sales, median 2,267 square feet on 1.16 acres, built 2019, sold $490,000. Aledo, 36 sales, median 2,728 square feet on 0.18 acres, also built 2019, sold $497,500.

Same money, seven grand apart.

Aledo gives you 461 more square feet and a fourth bedroom. Weatherford gives you about an acre more dirt.

And here’s the part I didn’t expect: Aledo runs $183 a foot, Weatherford runs $217. Per square foot, the town everybody assumes is the expensive one is the cheaper one.

That doesn’t make Aledo the better buy.

The acre is the whole point of moving out past it, and an acre is worth what it’s worth to you.

It just means the decision was never really about price.

House or land. Pick it on purpose.

Send this to whoever you keep having this argument with.

09/10/2026

There is a name for the agent who promises you the highest price. Buying the listing.

He quotes a number nobody can support, you sign the agreement because of it, and the price cut conversation shows up thirty days later. By then he has your listing and you have sixty days of nothing.

Here is the part that costs real money. Your house gets more showings in its first two weeks than it will ever get again. Start above the market and you spend that window teaching buyers to scroll past it. When the cut finally comes, the question in the buyer’s head is not what is it worth, it is what is wrong with it. And on a financed offer the appraisal has to support the price anyway, so a number nobody can back is not a number.

The test takes one sentence. Ask anyone who quotes you a price to show you the last three houses they listed and what those actually closed at. Original list price, sold price, days on market. A real answer takes them ninety seconds to pull. Watch what happens if they change the subject.

Save this one. You will want it in front of you when you are sitting at your kitchen table across from somebody with a folder.

09/09/2026

The down payment might not be your problem. The contract table is.

Twenty percent on a $500,000 house in Aledo is $100,000. That number is the reason a lot of people out here have never called anybody. FHA minimum is 3.5 percent, so $17,500 on that same house. Conventional goes to 3. VA is zero, and a lot of Parker County is USDA eligible, which is also zero.

Then there are Texas first time buyer programs that can cover the down payment itself, and with the inventory we have right now, sellers are agreeing to pay buyer closing costs on a lot of these deals. So the two walls everybody assumes are there are not always there.

Here’s the honest half. You still need cash on hand at the contract table before any of that helps you: option fee, earnest money, the inspection, usually the appraisal. Earnest money comes back to you at closing, the inspection does not. And when you put less down you are borrowing more, which means mortgage insurance in the payment and no equity on day one. That trade is right for some people and wrong for others, and anybody who tells you it is always the right move is selling something.

What number were you told you needed to have saved? Drop it in the comments. I want to see how far off the myth is.

09/08/2026

There are 33 houses for sale in Willow Park. 26 sold in the last three months.

That’s under four months of supply. Six months is the line where a market tips toward buyers, so Willow Park is on the other side of it.

Almost everything for sale out here turns over in a quarter. Which is the argument against waiting for spring. Spring isn’t a better market, it’s a more crowded one.

Everybody who’s been sitting on the fence lists the same three weeks, and you go from thirty two houses to every house at once. Under four months does not mean name your price.

Sellers around here are still closing under what they first asked, because overpriced sits in a tight market too. The window being open is not the same as the rules changing.

Send this to whoever keeps telling you they’ll list in the spring.

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