san antonio tx real estate: FIESTA 2009 - San Antonio, TX - The Battle of Flowers Parade - 04/23/09 11:49 PM
San Antonio, TX is in the middle of celebrating FIESTA! Well, actually, we're on the downhill side FIESTA and tomorrow is Battle of Flowers Day. How do we celebrate -- with a parade of course. The first Battle of Flowers Parade was held in 1891 to honor the heroes of the battle (16 comments)
san antonio tx real estate: ARE YOU GOING TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE FIRST-TIME HOME BUYER TAX CREDIT? - 01/15/09 10:52 PM
What First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit you ask??? The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 provides a $7,500 tax credit for qualified first-time home buyers. It also includes other provisions that help prevent foreclosures, reinvigorate the housing market and strengthen the economy.
Here's the First-Time Home Buyer Tax Credit (19 comments)
Interest rates are low, there's a large inventory of houses on the market - you're thinking it might be a good time for you to buy a house. Wondering where to start? We can answer your questions. Attend a FREE Homebuyer's Seminar on Saturday, January 24, 2009 at 10:00 (9 comments)
san antonio tx real estate: San Antonio Water Rates Increase in 2009 - 01/01/09 11:44 PM
The San Antonio City Council recently approved a 3.9% rate adjustment (increase) in our water & sewer usage will go into effect in January, 2009.
The funds will go directly into our community to repair and replace our aging water and waste water infrastructure and to provide funding to develop critical water (14 comments)
san antonio tx real estate: Want to save money on your water bill? Here’s how. . . - 01/01/09 11:20 PM
San Antonio is suffering an extreme drought. Since September, 2007, we've had only 16.4" of rain in the San Antonio area. That just isn't enough rain to recharge the Edwards Aquifer. Here's one way to help postpone water usage restrictions.
You can get a FREE home water conservation audit. It only (15 comments)
Winter here in San Antonio usually brings rain. This is when the Edwards Aquifer is recharged by all of the seasonal rain. No t this year - we're in the midst of an extreme drought - the worse one since the 1950's. Our Aquifer level is falling instead of (8 comments)
How about a Rainmaker's Convention? Any help would be appreciated. San Antonio completed 2008 with the driest 16 months September, 2007 through December, 2008, in recorded history. We had less than 1" of rain in the past 4 months and climate scientists are saying the dry conditions could last until the (13 comments)
san antonio tx real estate: The Woman's Club of San Antonio -- 110 years strong. - 11/07/08 10:55 PM
The Woman's Club of San Antonio was organized on October 1, 1898. Miss Marion Fenwick, Woman's Page Editor of the Daily Express and Miss M. Eleanor Brackenridge, Clubwoman Philantropist organized the Club. They had attended a General Federation of Women's Clubs convention in Denver in 1898 and were inspired. Upon returning (22 comments)
san antonio tx real estate: GOLF IS ALIVE AND WELL IN SAN ANTONIO, TX - 08/30/08 10:55 AM
Where was the first municipal golf course in Texas built? If you guessed San Antonio you are absolutely right. The world famous and accomplished golf course architect A. W. Tillinghast designed and built Brackenridge Park Golf Course in 1915. Brackenridge Park was one of his earliest works. In 1922, John Bredemus, (14 comments)
san antonio tx real estate: Texas Spring Flowers...blooming along the highways and byways - 04/30/08 05:21 PM
Spring in Texas is a beautiful time of the year. Down in the San Antonio, TX area we usually have a mild Winter however, we're always more than ready for Winter to end and Spring to arrive. As I drive the highways and byways of the Bexar, Kendall, Comal, and Guadalupe (61 comments)
Thinking about updating your home or yard? Need ideas? The 28th Annual San Antonio Home & Garden Show is this weekend - February 22 thru 24 at the Alamodome.
Paul James, the Gardner Guy from HGTV's Gardening by the Yard. and Sue Whitney from Junk Market Girls will be (19 comments)
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