AnnaBanana's Blog

I just read that Austin has changed the name of Town Lake to Lady Bird Lake. It's a wonderful place in a great town, Where else can you go see millions of bats, museum, boats of various kinds, a beautiful downtown skyline and good barbeque? Even though I like Lake Lady Bird better than Lady Bird ...

It seems to have become a mantra around the Texas Hill Country lately. For the past few months we have received more rain than ever before in history. I'm a native Texan, born in Houston, lived there for the first 30 something years. Hated the heat and humidity, loved the fall, winter and spring'...

Has anyone out there attempted to look at noe build homes with excellent energy ratings? I know that all over the country builders are continuing to build standard homes and add what they consider to be "energy efficient" appliances, wraps, coatings, whatever. But are these minimal things really ...

Just some random thought concerning Lady Bird Johnson's death. Never unexpected, the death of a person over 90 years of age always causes reflection. When I was an innkeeper in a very small town in Texas we had many politicians stay with us, as we would comp them - non-politically - it was just g...

HUD and Bank Owned Homes (REO's) - are they always a good Deal? Everyone dreams of finding the big "deal" on a foreclosed home. I can verify that this can happen, but you need to know the market or have an agent that does. If you are interested in buying repossessed HUD or Bank Owned properties, ...

As Realtors, we have been hearing that term for over a year now. Everyone has been talking about it for longer than that. We have all seen some bad stuff happen to good people when they are desperately attempting to finance a home for their family. Predatory lenders and the subsequent sub-prime m...

We have been hearing that term for over a year now. As Realtors, we have been talking about it for longer than that. We have all seen some bad stuff happen to good people. I am currently working in a very sad situation right now; a 77 year old couple are being forced to sell their home of over 50...