Austin Texas Real Estate Blog (and other stuff)
This blog is about the Austin real estate market, along with tips for agents and other funny stuff that I deem fit to include.
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2008
Dear Rookie Who Might Happen to Stumble Across this Post, I remember my first year in the real estate business vividly. I had been co-owner of a small printing and marketing company, and most of our customers were Realtors. After doing that for awhile, I began to realize that the people making ...
06/18/2008
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This month's contest for the Inspired by Song! group is "Get this Song Out of my Head!", which is a reference to "Earworms", or songs that play over and over again in your mind. I have no idea why we decided to torture ourselves in judging this particular topic, but we are in for the long haul n...
06/17/2008
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I took my kids (9 and 7 years old) to see "Kung Fu Panda" last week, not long after it opened in theaters. I was pleasantly surprised at how funny and entertaining it was. I will caution you that if you are not a Jack Black fan (think "School of Rock" more than "Tenacious D"), then you might no...
06/17/2008
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My business partners and I have been looking for office space for a month or so now. Our lease is up at the end of July, and the owners want to collect almost double our current rent starting in August, so we are leaving our company "home" of almost four years. We got a phenomenal deal on our ...
06/16/2008
I was thinking this week about my real estate career, and about the amount of time that I have spent over the years helping folks who later were unable to purchase, or simply decided to "put things on hold for now", or ended up somehow doing an "end around" and eliminating me from the transactio...
06/15/2008
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I almost didn't write this particular post at all, since I have seen so many great ones today on the topic of fatherhood, but I did have a few thoughts I wanted to share about my day. Nothing earth-shattering here, but you might find it interesting. Today was not all that different than any ot...
06/15/2008
I read today that the Pflugerville public library is expanding to roughly three times its current size. Local voters approved $7 million in bond money for the project in May. The Pflugerville Community Library opened its doors in 1999. Recently, with the addition of a new director, Kathy Frieh...
06/14/2008
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On the eve of Father's Day weekend, I thought it would be appropriate to share some experiences that I've had with my son lately. I have been cycling with my nine year old son Brandon pretty much every evening lately. We go for a ride that is slightly over 5 miles, which still amazes me consid...
06/13/2008
We listed a home yesterday in the highly desirable Stone Canyon neighborhood, which is located adjacent to the Round Rock Medical Center near Highway 620. Stone Canyon features a Blue Ribbon Elementary School (Fern Bluff Elementary), multiple homeowners' parks, walking trails, community pool and...
06/12/2008
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This is just a note to thank all of my subscribers and friends who regularly comment on my posts. This post will put me over 251,000 points. I started here on August 4th, 2007, and I have written over 460 posts in that time. I remember being thrilled when I hit the 20,000 mark, then 50,000, a...
06/12/2008
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