Lockhart Texas BBQ is Famous, even for Texas BBQ Eating BBQ in Texas is like breathing: you just gotta do it, and do it a lot. We wrote about the town of Lockhart Texas a few weeks ago but we ran out of time for shooting the town (meaning: we ran out of sunlight and [...]
Fence Value and the Running Joke
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How Much is a $5000 Fence Worth? Yes, you read that right. A $5000 fence is very unlikely to be worth $5000. Fence Cost does not equal Fence Value Most home improvement projects don’t return 100% on the investment. Maybe one would if you did all of the work yourself, and used materials left over [...]
Austin Condo Mortgage: Not Your Typical Home Loan
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Condo Loans and Condo Financing – Tougher to Get? Yes. A condo loan requires both the buyer and the condo association to qualify. Even a highly qualified buyer may not be able to purchase a condo, if the condo development is not as financially stable as a lender requires. Some Austin Condos Won’t Qualify Austin [...]
Urban Chicken Farming: Backyard Chickens in Austin Texas
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BOCK! BOCK! BOCK! If you live on a farm, that might be a sound you’ve heard so often that it no longer registers. If you live in town, though, you might stop for a moment, just a little bit confused. Was that a chicken? Backyard Chickens: Bringing the Farm to Your Neighborhood Urban chicken farming [...]
Downtown Lockhart Texas in Photographs
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Been to Lockhart TX Lately? The downtown square in Lockhart looks like a lot of small town, old town Texas squares with the courthouse in the middle, surrounded by buildings built in the late 1800s and early 1900s. According to the City of Lockhart’s website, Byrd Lockhart arrived in the area in the late 1800s [...]
Chisholm Valley West 78681 Round Rock TX Real Estate Data
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Chisholm Valley West: Older Homes with Access to Major Roads and Shopping Chisholm Valley West, Old West Addition, Chisholm Valley South and Westwind are subdivisions in Round Rock 78681 bordered on the North by McNeil Drive, the East by I-35, the South by Hesters Crossing and the West by County Road 172. This little neighborhood [...]
Living Near the Tracks: Does Railroad Proximity Matter?
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Railroad Tracks: Contemplations on the Impact Do you have rail road tracks in close proximity to your neighborhood, or more specifically, to your home? Would rail road tracks impact your decision on whether or not to buy a home in an area? Pros and Cons of the Rails We posed a similar question to the [...]
Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans
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A Book Review – the story of Texas from prehistory to the present Lone Star: A History of Texas to the Present by T.R. Fehrenbach is not for the those with a short attention span. Nary a photo appears in 725 packed pages – the few illustrations are black and white sketches, sparingly used to [...]
Texas Almanac: A Book You Need
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Have You Handled a Texas Almanac Lately? I picked one up for the first time at the Texas History Museum yesterday afternoon and have barely put it down since. I had it (wrongly) in my mind that Almanacs are things for farmers, things of the past, something antiquated. No one handed me a copy when [...]
Gruene Texas: Talk of the Town
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Gruene, Texas – Historic Buildings, Tons of People and Gorgeous Motorcycles We tried to shoot Gruene, Texas last weekend. I say “tried” because what we actually did was crank out a bunch of over-or-underexposed photographs, awkward photos of crowds, tilty shots of buildings obscured by pick-up trucks and, well, not a whole lot of good [...]
RMMA: Mueller Austin Real Estate 2009 2010 and Photographs
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Mueller Austin – Urban Infill at it’s Best What do you do when you have a giant swath of urban land, much of it paved over or living as giant, weedy lots? If you’re a smart developer in Austin, TX, you build ecologically conscious (aka “green”) homes and mixed use buildings at an old city [...]
Meridian Austin (78739): Real Estate Data 2009 to 2010
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Meridian in South Austin, 78739: Brick and Stone Houses on Rolling Hills The Subdivision of Meridian in South Austin (Travis County) has almost 800 lots with homes built of brick and limestone built between 2005 and 2010. These homes are situated on lots that range from under 6,000 square foot to just under an acre, [...]
Driftwood TX: Open Land, Cows and mini-Mansions
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Driftwood, Texas – Other than the Salt Lick For many Austinites, Driftwood means the Salt Lick – that fabulous barbecue joint with a gigantic dusty parking lot, a long line and some of the best finger-licking meat in Texas. We drive to the Salt Lick, eat, then drive home. Along the way, we see . [...]
The City of Kyle in Hays County Texas – Downtown in Photos
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Kyle, Texas – From Small Town to Boom Town: What’s Next? The City of Kyle, in Hays County, Texas, is located along the I-35 corridor between San Antonio and Austin. Since 2000, Kyle has seen it’s population grow by 291%, to over 20,000 residents, according to Sperling’s Best Places. Because we love driving around small [...]
Twin Creeks in Cedar Park (78613): Real Estate Stats 2009 and 2010
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The Twin Creeks Subdivision: Views, Golf, Amenities The Twin Creeks subdivision in Cedar Park is at the Northwestern edge of Travis County and is surrounded by the Texas Hill Country, zip code 78613. The almost-700 homes in this subdivision were mostly built between 2002 and 2009 on lots that range from 6,000 square feet to [...]
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