lakeway real estate: Real Estate - Lakeway TX - West of Austin TX - 03/08/10 05:19 AM
Lakeway Austin TX was once a sleepy, retirement community West of Austin TX, but now it's experiencing growth and new construction, and many people call Lakeway TX home, from the old to the young. Currently, there is a house listed for $154,000 as well as one listed for $2,195,000. That's a huge range of properties, but for the most part, the area median is just about $400k. Even with the current market conditions being flat, it's not stopping people from buying and selling houses in Lakeway Austin TX.  Just in the past 30 days, there  have been 37 new listings come … (0 comments)

lakeway real estate: Real Estate - Austin TX Homes for Sale are Selling Strong - 09/13/09 07:48 AM
Austin TX Homes for Sale are selling strong, and getting stronger.  Texas, as a whole, didn't see price bubbles like the rest of the country.  Texas also didn't see massive price drops like the rest of the country either.  Both very good things.  It's good to be in a stabilized area.
Even though Austin TX homes for sale are going strong right now, and over the past few months, it's interesting to look at the numbers from a different perspective.
Here is a chart provided by the Austin Board of Realtors for January 2009:
 
Here is a chart provided for … (2 comments)

lakeway real estate: Painless Prospecting- 2 Hour MCE Credit- September 16 at Austin Title - 09/04/09 03:49 AM

PAINLESS PROSPECTING
Come to my 2 hour course, MCE credited, and get back to the basics of PROSPECTING!!
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 from 1-3pm at Austin Title's Media Center at 1515 Capital of TX Highway Suite 500.
What are the course objectives, you ask?
Learn how many leads you need each week, month, year... Learn how to generate those leads Get rid of peaks and valleys Get over the fear of prospecting Learn the triggers behind each lead that make them buy and/or sell You may register by clicking here.  Feel free to re-blog.
I look forward to seeing you … (0 comments)

lakeway real estate: Lake Travis - Austin TX- View from Iguana Grill - 08/23/09 05:11 AM
Lake Travis -Austin TX - View from the Iguana Grill.
On Thursday, I had a Mother's Night Out with some local moms in the Lakeway, Bee Cave, and Spicewood, TX areas.  We went to the Iguana Grill on 620 in Lakeway. 
It was hot, but we sat on the patio anyway.  They had misters with fans blowing on us, but it's the view you come for.
With record breaking heat this summer and record draught over a 23 months period going on, there are amazing shots you can get today that you probably won't come near to seeing next year.
Here … (5 comments)

lakeway real estate: Real Estate - Buying a House - Austin TX- The Simple Steps to Follow- Part 4 - 08/20/09 03:47 AM
When buying a house in Austin TX, there are several steps to follow, but if broken down, it's much less intimidating. What else helps?  Doing the steps in a particular order.
For example, Part 1 of buying a house in Austin TX talked about getting Pre-Approved for a mortgage, while Part 2 talked about how to start looking for houses and neighborhoods.  Part 3 talked about actually looking at the insides of houses.
This next part will address writing an offer.
Before writing an offer, you need to have your REALTOR® pull up the history of the property along with recent … (5 comments)

lakeway real estate: Real Estate - Buying a House - Austin TX- The Simple Steps to Follow- Part 2 - 08/15/09 08:03 AM
When buying a house in Austin TX, there are several steps to follow, but if broken down, it's much less intimidating. What else helps?  Doing the steps in a particular order.
For example, Part 1 of this series talked about getting Pre-Approved for a mortgage.
The second step is Looking for Homes. 
Many people think REALTORS® are tour guides and just drive buyers around to look at houses.  This is so far from the truth.  You, the buyer, need to learn the areas and decide where you want to live, and a Realtor can't do that for you.
Many buyers aren't … (5 comments)

lakeway real estate: Painless Prospecting- 2 hour MCE credit- August 19 at Austin Title - 08/13/09 07:39 AM
PAINLESS PROSPECTING
Come to my 2 hour course, MCE credited, and get back to the basics of PROSPECTING!!
Wednesday, August 19, 2009 from 9:30-11:30am at Austin Title's Media Center at 1515 Capital of TX Highway Suite 500.
What are the course objectives, you ask?
Learn how many leads you need each week, month, year... Learn how to generate those leads Get rid of peaks and valleys Get over the fear of prospecting Learn the triggers behind each lead that make them buy and/or sell You may register by clicking here.  Feel free to re-blog.
I look forward to seeing you there!
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lakeway real estate: Speechless Sunday- Where did Lake Travis Go? - 08/09/09 02:12 PM
 

**Are You Packed Yet?**

Donna Harris, REALTOR®RE/MAX Austin Skylinewww.DonnaHomes.comDonna@DonnaHomes.com
Austin, TX and the surrounding areas of Lakeway, Bee Cave, Westlake Hills, Cedar Park, Round Rock, Spicewood, Circle-C, Steiner Ranch, and everywhere in between... Whether you're buying or selling, I'll be with you through the entire process.
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lakeway real estate: Lake Travis - Austin TX - The Lake is Drying Up - 08/08/09 06:56 AM
Lake Travis - Austin TX - The lake is drying up.  This is so sad... look at the below pictures of my In-law's cove on Lake Travis down Hudson Bend. 



They bought a brand new boat this year, and it's been out of the water for 3 weeks already because it would be sitting on the bottom of the lake.  The "hike" down to the lake is getting further and further away.  It used to be right outside their backyard fence.  Now, you can't even see the house from the "lake" as all you see is the mountain … (9 comments)

lakeway real estate: Flowers by Nancy, too in Lakeway, TX - 08/07/09 06:53 AM
I stopped into Flowers by Nancy, too today to get my free "Welcome to the Neighborhood" plant that is offered.  I took this opportunity to get some information about this great, local flower store.

 
The first thing you'll notice when you drive up is that you're driving into a boat dealership.  This is because Donna and Jeff Parker also own Austin Boats and Motors right next door.  Within the boat store, they used to have a flower shop.

Some years ago, the John Deere dealership next door became available, and they moved the flower business over there.  … (2 comments)

lakeway real estate: How Many Kinds of Ants are There? - 08/07/09 03:05 AM
Did you know there are about 10,000 species of ants?  I have no idea how a tiny little creature could look so different from the next to come up with 10,000 differences, but that's amazing.
 
The most common I hear referred to are red ants, black ants, and carpenter ants.  I guess I need some education in 9,997 other different kinds of ants.
 
I had an inspection on a house where the termite guy found "acrobat" ants.  Were the ants doing back-bends and cartwheels for him to determine that?
 
Some ants bite and others don't.  I'm allergic to … (15 comments)

lakeway real estate: Bambi Needs Help Finding a House - 08/05/09 03:29 AM
Can you help me and Bambi and the rest of my family find a home?

There are lots of deer running through my neighborhood of Falconhead West in Bee Cave, TX, but it was even more amazing to find this tree that looks so much like a deer, right down the street from my house.

From this angle, you can see he has found his way to the Model Homes (per the sign in the background, in case you missed it).
**Are You Packed Yet?**

Donna Harris, REALTOR®RE/MAX Austin Skylinewww.DonnaHomes.comDonna@DonnaHomes.com
Austin, TX and the surrounding areas of Lakeway, Bee Cave, … (13 comments)

lakeway real estate: Hoppin' House in Lakeway TX- Fun for all ages - 08/01/09 05:59 AM
Today was the 1 year anniversary for Hoppin' House in Lakeway, TX.  They are a family owned and operated Bounce House place, the Assini and McCullough families.  Today's FREE party was held at the Lakeway City Park with hotdogs, cake, bounce houses, water slides, and a little train.
Here are some pictures from the party today. The faces have been blurred for privacy.
 
 
I've taken my daughter to Hoppin' House a few times, and it's great!  Since my daughter is currently only 20 months old, it's good that Hoppin' House has a couple of bounce houses geared … (15 comments)

lakeway real estate: Press Release for the Austin TX Top Ten Real Estate Deals - 07/13/09 05:38 AM
I just received an email that a Press Release was sent over the AP and other major online news aggregators featuring the Austin Top Ten Real Estate Deals and me, Donna Harris!
Talk about national exposure!!  You can see the PR here.
If you're a homeowner in the Austin, TX area and would like to have your house listed and marketed with a REALTOR® with exposure like this, contact me TODAY!
Here's a link so you can see the regular updates of the list.
**Are You Packed Yet?**

Donna Harris, REALTOR®RE/MAX Austin Skylinewww.DonnaHomes.comDonna@DonnaHomes.com
Austin, TX real estate and the surrounding areas of … (14 comments)

lakeway real estate: Tweet Lister for Automatic Tweeting of your Listings - 07/02/09 04:13 AM
Have you heard of Tweet Lister? I heard about it last week, and immediately posted a listing on it to see what would happen.

It's pretty neat because you just enter the address, and pick a couple of features of the home, and the tweet is automatically created for you.
You can enter a link for pictures or a virtual tour and that's included also.
Then, you can tell it how often you want the tweet to go out.  I put mine as every 2 days, and low and behold, every other day, the tweet goes through without me doing … (11 comments)

lakeway real estate: Lake Austin - Austin TX - Lakefront Homes - 06/30/09 03:26 AM
Lake Austin - Austin TX - Lakefront Homes needed to be explored since last week, we ventured out to Lake Travis to show you some waterfront Homes. 
This past weekend, we went out to the other side of the Mansfield Dam to check out Lake Austin.
Lake Austin is MUCH colder than Lake Travis because it's a constant-level lake that is fed through the Mansfield Dam from the bottom of Lake Travis.  The water at the very bottom never sees the sun, so it stays cold and that cold water is what feeds Lake Austin.

As you go further down … (15 comments)

lakeway real estate: How Was Your Weekend? - 06/30/09 02:56 AM
For the past couple of weeks, I've been posting a "How Was Your Weekend?" blog. People have seemed to enjoy seeing how my family and I spend time together, so here's another weekend.
We went to the Bee Cave Galleria, also known as the Hill Country Galleria, where they have this area of shooting water.  Great, FREE Entertainment!

We went out on the boat to check out Lake Austin. The water is much colder than Lake Travis, but with it being 107 degrees, the water felt awesome!!  These are half of my in-laws with Alyssa and her shades.

This is … (5 comments)

lakeway real estate: Have You Signed the HVCC Petition? Only 40,178 people have - 06/25/09 01:09 PM
Have you signed the petition for the HVCC?  Have you seen the petition?
It's amazing that so many people are complaining about the HVCC, there's a petition to do something about it, however, only 40,178 people have signed it.
Aren't there 1.3 MILLION REALTORS® out there?  With that number alone, there should be several hundred thousand signatures already... but there aren't. 
Aren't there like 5 appraisers for every Realtor?  Ok, I know there aren't that many, but there have to be several hundred thousand appraisers across the country.
Why aren't they all signing this if they're that upset?  Have most given … (73 comments)

lakeway real estate: Lake Travis - Austin TX - Lakefront Homes - 06/23/09 01:46 AM
Lake Travis - Austin TX -Lakefront Homes sit nicely above the water.  I was out on the boat this weekend, and I decided to take some pictures of some of the gorgeous houses on Lake Travis.  Many people think that "lake front" means that the house is right there at the lake and they can just walk out their backdoor to the dock...
Take a look at some of these pictures and let me know if you still think this! 

   

 
 
Granted, the water is a little low right now, but with many … (12 comments)

lakeway real estate: You Can't Help them All... But some you can! - 05/18/09 08:27 AM
I met with some nice people Sunday afternoon.  They were foreclosed on about 2 weeks ago.  The problem?  They were never once late on their mortgage payment!
What?  They made their mortgage payments on time every month?  YES, they did...
The thing is, they fell upon some hard times a few months back and missed paying their property taxes.  The lender decided to pay their taxes for them, and instate an escrow account. 
The problem this time?  The home owners didn't get the notice that they were to pay an escrow until the bank already noted them as 6 months behind … (17 comments)

 
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Austin, TX

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This blog is to help educate Buyers, Sellers and even other Realtors across the country.  Each market is different and the way Real Estate is done is different.  Austin Real Estate is completely different than Dallas, California and Florida and everywhere else in between.  Some times there will be other things besides real estate as I like to rant and rave as much as the next!!  Come back often!


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