Everything you need to compare, free. No email, no signup, no pressure.
The guide, the comparison engine, the affordability workbook, and the primary-source desk to verify any of it yourself. Nothing here costs money, and nothing requires hiring anyone.
Start with these.
Start with the tracker and the Hot Sheet, then compare the communities and the builders, then read the Playbook. Every tool is free and none requires an email.
The Incentive Tracker
Builder incentives across Central Texas, checked against builder sites four times a day (new issue every Monday) and ranked by how much value actually reaches the buyer, not just the headline dollar amount. See what's rising, what's tied to the builder's lender, what's about to expire, and compare offers side by side. No email.
Open the tracker → Daily · Five minutesThe Daily Hot Sheet
The five minute morning read built from the tracker: one Buyer Advantage Score, what changed since the last sweep, today's one move, and the deadlines that are real. Updated four times a day, every day. No email.
Open the Hot Sheet → CompareThe Community Explorer
Filter tracked communities by price, tax rate, HOA, builders, and location, then compare your finalists side by side.
Open the Explorer → ReadThe New Home Buyer Playbook
Sixteen chapters organized by buying stage, from "should I buy new?" through your first year. Free to read on the site and free to download, no email required. Refreshed quarterly.
Browse all chapters → ShareThe Share Kit
Every current New Home Dispatch graphic on one page: the five live cards, caption copy, the Dispatch Rule reel, and the education slides. The live pieces regenerate with every sweep, so what you grab is always current.
Open the Share Kit → Research · Proprietary dataThe MUD & PID Atlas
Special tax districts around Austin new construction, community by community: the combined rate we track, what our records note about MUDs and PIDs, and exactly how to verify your lot. Grows with every sweep and field visit.
Open the Atlas → New · TimingThe Negotiation Window
Every public builder files a fixed fiscal calendar with the SEC. This page computes each one’s next quarter close live and joins it against what they’re actually advertising against that deadline, right now. No email.
Open the window → New · Ownership mapWho Owns the Neighborhood?
An interactive map of 49 Central Texas communities classified from county appraisal rolls: family owned, investor owned, or unsold builder inventory, plus the district tax layer over the top. No email.
Open the map → New · WatchIncentive Watch
Tell us the builders and communities you're weighing. We verify their incentives four times a day and message you the moment your number moves, a credit rises, a new offer lands, or a "limited-time" deadline is exposed as already expired. Free, independent, no builder pays to appear.
Put my builders on watch → Calculate · Free toolTrue Cost of Homeownership Calculator
The interactive tool behind "can I afford this?", enter a home's real numbers and see the all-in monthly cost (taxes, MUD/PID, HOA, insurance, maintenance), then compare two homes side by side. No email.
Open the calculator → Calculate · Free toolThe Incentive Reality Calculator
See what a builder's incentive package, rate buydown, closing credit, "free" upgrades, is actually worth on your home over the years you'll keep the loan, and whether the in-house-lender deal beats shopping the loan yourself. No email.
Open the calculator → Compare · Free toolThe Dare to Compare Workbook
Take it into every model home. Capture the real price, incentives, taxes, included features, and important terms for up to 3 homes, then compare them side by side. Interactive on your phone, or download the fillable and printable PDFs. No email.
Start Comparing → Analyze · Free toolThe Leverage Report
You have a builder's offer in hand, now see where it stands. Type in the incentive and get a personalized negotiation plan: how it compares to tracked offers, what's likely to reach you, and exactly what to say next. No email.
Build my report → Start hereThe First-Time Buyer Path
Six steps in order, all free: budget reality, down payment assistance, your own numbers, the shortlist, the visits, the offer.
Start the path → New · AskThe Dispatch Assistant
Ask the data, not a salesperson, real incentives, verified tax rates, and the entry-level price floor, in plain answers. It says so when it doesn’t know. Free, nothing leaves your device.
Ask a question → Research · FreeThe Affordability Desk
Where new construction actually starts, the verified price floor from $199,990, five researched value builders, and the checks that keep a cheap sticker from becoming an expensive payment.
Open the desk → Buyer Checklist · Phone or PDFLook Closer, 25-Point Community Checklist
The 25 things to check before you fall in love with a new-home community, the drive, the edges, an ordinary street, what's still promised, the model, and the real monthly cost. Tick it off on your phone as you tour, or print the PDF.
Open the checklist →Deeper dives on the parts buyers get wrong.
Standalone pieces beyond the sixteen chapters, the costs and decisions that catch new-construction buyers off guard.
The Texas Tax Reality Guide
Why the payment on the flyer may not be the payment you keep, escrow, reassessment on the completed home, MUD vs. PID, and the five numbers to verify before you trust a quote.
Download the guide (PDF) → Field Workbook · PDFThe Builder Comparison Playbook
A simple field workbook to carry into the model home, capture the seven things that actually matter across builders, homes, and communities, and compare later without relying on memory or emotion.
Download the workbook (PDF) → Field Guide · PDFThe Design Center Playbook
How to spend upgrade dollars wisely, sort every option into buy-now vs. wait, fund what's behind the drywall first, and walk in with a worksheet instead of a wish list.
Download the playbook (PDF) → Deep Dive · Buyer MindsetSometimes the Home Chooses You
Make a home make sense on paper first, then pay attention to the feeling. The Head & Heart Test for deciding with both.
Read the deep dive → Guide · RepresentationWho's on Your Side of the Table?
What buyer representation actually does in new construction, the builder's team vs. your side, the three ways to buy, and how to decide before your first visit.
Read the guide → Field Guide · PDFWho's on Your Side, 2-Minute Field Guide
The one-page version for the model home: three ways to buy, five moments money quietly leaves the table, and the questions to ask before you sign.
Download the field guide (PDF) →Stage checklists live inside the guides.
Rather than loose files, each checklist sits in the chapter that explains it, so you get the reasoning, not just the boxes. The three most-used:
50 Questions Every Buyer Should Ask
The full list to bring to a builder's sales office, grouped by what each answer protects.
Open the checklist → Under ContractThe Inspection Checklist
The three inspection stages, pre-pour, pre-drywall, final, and what to confirm at each.
Open the checklist → ComparingThe Community Scorecard
How to score any community the same way, taxes, HOA, builders, and commute, before you fall for the model home.
Open the scorecard →The Resource Desk.
Every claim on this site can be checked. The Resource Desk is the annotated list of primary sources, appraisal districts, school ratings, road and development records, and the consumer-protection agencies most buyers never use.
Organized by task, so you don't have to already know which government agency to call.
Open the Resource Desk →