The Mac Does REI blog has a new home, and it is the obvious one: right here on macdoesrei.com, alongside the tools, guides, and service pages the posts have always pointed to. If you followed the blog at its old address, everything you came for is here, on a faster site that is easier to find and easier to search.
Nothing about the editorial approach changed. Everything we publish still comes from the field: deals we have actually worked, situations our clients have actually faced, and the lessons that only show up after enough conversations with buyers, sellers, and investors across North Texas and Oklahoma.
The short version
The blog now lives on macdoesrei.com instead of a separate hosted platform. It publishes plain-English breakdowns of the questions people actually ask us: how cash offers get priced, when seller financing makes sense and when it does not, what listing a home costs at different service levels, and what we are seeing in the DFW and Oklahoma City markets. New posts land here as we publish them, and if there is a topic you want covered, the contact page is the place to ask.
Why did the blog move to macdoesrei.com?
Because the posts belong next to the pages they reference. A post about pricing a cash offer is more useful when it can link straight to the cash offer page, a post about property taxes is more useful next to the property tax lookup by county, and a market recap reads better when the listing search is one click away. Keeping the blog on a separate platform meant every one of those hops went off-site and back.
The move also puts the blog on the same fast, lightweight site as the rest of macdoesrei.com, so posts load quickly on a phone and show up where readers and search engines expect them.
What does the Mac Does REI blog cover?
Four things, mostly, and all of them start with a question someone actually asked us.
- Selling. How a cash offer is priced, what a full-service listing includes, what to do when a house is not selling, and how to handle an inherited house, tax liens, or a solar loan on the way to closing. The residential services page covers the service side; the blog covers the decisions.
- Buying. The mortgage process for first-time buyers, questions to ask an agent, why online payment calculators understate DFW and OKC payments, and what the Texas homestead exemption actually saves.
- Investing and creative finance. Off-market deal flow, subject-to purchases, seller financing, wraparound mortgages, private money, and how experienced investors decide whether a deal is worth doing. Start with why off market deals are key for investors.
- Market check-ins. A monthly read on Dallas-Fort Worth and a monthly read on Norman and Oklahoma City, written for homeowners and investors who want direction and dynamics rather than a data dump.
There is also a smaller set of tools-and-systems posts for agents and wholesalers, on dialers, CRMs, and where AI helps and where it does not.
How is the blog organized?
The blog index lists everything, newest first, and the monthly market posts run as a series for each metro. Longer, evergreen material lives in the free homeowner guides, which cover property taxes, home insurance, mortgage readiness, and Oklahoma-specific checklists for wells, septic systems, and the first day under contract.
State-specific material is collected in two hubs, Texas real estate resources and Oklahoma real estate resources, and the for-sale-by-owner document sets for each state are at FSBO documents.
What tools sit next to the blog?
The move puts the posts one click from the calculators and lookups they reference, which is most of the point. The mortgage calculator uses real tax rates rather than a national placeholder, which matters in North Texas, where the property tax line is a large share of the monthly payment. The home equity tracker covers both Texas and Oklahoma. The property tax by county lookup covers counties in both states, and the listing search covers North Texas and Oklahoma inventory. When a post mentions one of those, the link now takes you straight there instead of to a description of it.
How do we decide what to write?
Our most useful posts start as a client’s question, so that is where most of ours come from. If a seller in McKinney asks how a cash offer compares with listing, or an investor in Norman asks what happens to the mortgage in a subject-to deal, the answer usually becomes a post. Our editorial policy spells out the ground rules.
A few of those rules carry across everything we publish. We describe how processes work and what we have seen in real deals; we do not promise outcomes. We keep the buying side (NTX Realty Trust, which buys houses for cash in Texas and Oklahoma) clearly separate from the brokerage side (The McDonald Group, which lists and represents clients). And when a topic touches law, tax, or lending, we say so and point you to an attorney, CPA, or lender.
Frequently asked questions
Where does the Mac Does REI blog live now?
On macdoesrei.com, at the blog index. Posts publish here first, and each one links to the tools and pages it references.
What kind of posts does the blog publish?
Plain-English breakdowns for sellers, buyers, and investors in DFW and Oklahoma, plus monthly market check-ins for both metros. Everything comes from deals and client situations we have actually worked.
How do I suggest a topic?
Send it through the contact page. A question one person asks is usually one many people have, and those make the strongest posts.
Where we land on it
A blog is only worth reading if it helps you make a better decision, and that is the bar every post here has to clear. If you are selling, begin with listing versus a cash offer in DFW; if you are buying, start with understanding the mortgage process; if you invest, the 2026 investor playbook is the overview. When you are ready to talk about a specific house in DFW, our residential services page is where that conversation starts. New posts land here as we publish them, and we are glad to have you reading.
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