Whether you are a first time buyer or an  experienced investor, you will find useful information about how to choose the "right" property, making an offer, negotiating, financing, mortgage rates, moving, and everything involved in making an informed real estate decision in today´s market. We are experiance with first time home buyer, real estate investors and land. Use your resources! The Rio Trio is your McAllen resource.

We are in a unique situation here in the Greater McAllen area - Wow! what a boom we have been riding in the past 10 years. The McAllen area, including Mission, Edinburg, Pharr & San Juan have seen tremendous growth not seen by many areas in the United States. We all have our opinion as to what started our boom but without a doubt, the Free Trade Agreement as been a big part of our prosperity. This agreement has allowed our area to be one of the fastest growing cities in the US. For detailed information about the growth in our area give one of the Rio Trio girls a call. The Rio Trio has 50 years of on the job training. Each have numerous designations, including Certified Residental Specalist, Graduate of the Real Estate Institute, and EPro (internet savvy)as well as their brokers' license. Give us a call to see why our team is so successful in the business.

The Rio Trio is a marketing team of real estate agents at Trendsetters Realty. We are committed to marketing properties to all the buyers we can reach. We sell residential, commerical, land, lots, duplexes, acreage, apartment complexes and ranches. Trendsetters is a full service real estate office that works with many real estate relocation companies and is knowledgable in all aspects of the transactions. We are also a HUD Certified Broker.

Please feel free to browse through this site to explore the Hidalgo County communities of McAllen, Mission, Edinburg, Pharr, San Juan, Alamo, Weslaco, and Donna. This comprehensive online tool offers direct access to the latest properties for sale in your area. Featuring extensive community information, consumer links, school information, free reports, answers to commonly asked real estate questions, and more, you´ll find everything about real estate within one easy source. Our Chamber of Commerce site is a very useful tool to get a feel for the area as well as our local newspaper, The Monitor.

The area is home to the University of Texas Pan American, one of nine schools in the UT System. McAllen also houses South Texas College, one of the fastest growing community colleges in the nation. In addition, the public schools in McAllen have achieved a 100% approval rating with the Texas Education Agency. McAllen is also part of the South Texas Independent School District, with five magnet schools, two of which have pre-med programs, and three of which have been included in the US News and World Report´s 2008 Gold Medal List of best high schools in the country. Other magnet schools in McAllen include the Idea Academy (also on the Gold List), the Eagle Academy, and the Lamar Academy, a fully accredited International Baccalaureate academy. These diverse educational opportunities make McAllen an appealing place to raise a family.

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If you currently own property and are thinking of placing it on the market, this site contains information about preparing your home for sale, selecting the right agent, pricing your home appropriately, marketing it effectively, going through the inspection processes, and receiving a timely market evaluation.