South Austin Real Estate Blog - Sky Realty

  This week while working with my clients I have done some history of sales in one of our neighborhoods that seems to be recession proof.  Villages at Western Oaks is tucked in the shady treelined streets of Southwest Austin Texas.  100 year old trees were saved and houses built around them have ...

When saving a dollar isn't worth the risk.  I recently sold a house that was built in 1987 to a nice couple, the home looks nice, smells good and was a good price for the neighborhood.  So we talked about the importance of an inspection.  The inspector will look for obvious things and the things ...

It seems to be raining all over Active Rain.  Just this morning I was reading blogs and came across Jason Crouch's goodnews blog  ActiveRain has helped me to become a local expert! 3 Interesting contacts I received this week from my "hyperlocal" blogging  and I realized how widespread the RAIN is...

Since fuel prices have gone up so much this year, that increase has been followed across the board by groceries, utilities, medication and everything else our dollar purchases.  SO how can a family keep up? Clark Howard the radio show penny pincher has told us about a great way we can all save mo...

I am reminded daily about our obligation to buyers and sellers to provide the Information About Brokerage Service here in Texas.  The legal parties of TREC state we need to provide this at our first conversation about real estate to a potential client.  Many of us use email, web blogs, and websit...

Will you be there?  I think today I will spend an amount of my hard earned dollars to attend this year, It will be my first time to Mega Camp and I am excited.  I just made the decision today, get it now while its still a bargain. I wasn't going to go because its my birthday, I usually take that ...

Yes, I love this job, it has ups and downs and exciting times and joys unparelleled... and it has the great downtimes, the disappointing moments, the times you want to shake your head and wonder why are you here in this place at this time? Last month I was lucky enough to see pure joy face to fac...

Yesterday I went to see the much advertised MAMMA MIA!...  featuring Meryl Streep, Pierce Bronson, Christine Baranski and many other talented actors and actresses.   What a fun movie.  My friend who went with me had seen it on Broadway and said the movie brought much to the story with the beautif...

Hooray!!!  Oh how I wish it were a real Hooray, gasoline prices dropped yesterday here locally, from $3.95 a gallon to $3.87 a gallon. It seems that was the first downward price movement in months.  We are all frustrated with the price climbing like a steady mountaineer .. trying to reach the top...

Wow, this weekend was something. Not all days are stellar, 100% glorious shining examples of life... some days you just take it on the chin and say ok.. tomorrow will be better. I lost a listing, a mutual agreement between me and the sellers, they want a faster sale at a higher price than the mar...