Gorgeous Hill Country Living at River Place Looking for a home with sweeping Hill Country Views in the Austin city limits? Take a drive through River Place off of 2222 near 620 and see the variety of homes and views that are on the market this Spring. Homes in this subdivision range from the low-to-mid [...]
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Closing on a Home: What to Expect in Austin
What to Expect When Closing On A Home Closing on a house is an exciting moment for every future homeowner. At the same time, it can be an overwhelming and confusing experience, particularly for those who have never purchased a home before. Therefore, if you are planning to purchase a home, it is in your [...]
Granite Remnants: A Less Expensive Update for a Small Space
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Granite Remnants Are Often Cheaper If you’ve tried to replace a small counter with a piece of granite, you probably ran into a common problem: granite fabricators don’t want to sell a little piece, they want to sell the whole slab. Or, they want to charge you an arm and a leg for the piece [...]
HOA Rules: Where Can You Park Your Truck in Austin TX?
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HOA rules can foil your plans for making your property unique, and that may or may not be a good thing. Tell us what you think about HOA restrictions in Austin.
Austin Backyard Salvage and Garden: Stuff Your Yard Might Like
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Want to use architectural salvage and reclaimed materials to spiff up your backyard in Austin? Check out Backyard Salvage and Garden in Central Austin.
Austin Triangle: Upscale and Walkable Living in Austin TX
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The Austin Triangle has everything an urbanite might want: upscale apartment living, a jogging trail around the park, walkable restaurants and retail shopping. Oh, yeah, and the Farmers Market on Wednesday late afternoons.
Maya Star: A South Congress Shop to Visit in Austin
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South Congress Shopping: Maya Star We ran downtown this evening after dinner to Austin’s over-the-top costume store Lucy in Disguise on South Congress to get a tri-corner hat for Sam’s school performance tomorrow morning. Yeah, we hate last-minute school-stuff-for-tomorrow errands just as much as you do. Since we don’t get down to SoCo that often, [...]
Texas Ren Faire: Medieval Action at the Sherwood Forest Faire
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The Texas Renaissance Faire in McDade TX, off 290 If you follow 290 from Austin towards Houston, eat a little BBQ in Elgin and load up on the water bottles and sun screen, you’ll be ready for the Sherwood Forest Faire in McDade Texas (Bastrop County). The faire is open for one more weekend in [...]
Shadow Inventory: What it Means for Texas Homeowners
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Shadow Inventory: Defined Shadow inventory is a real estate term that estimates: the number of properties owned by banks, PLUS the number of additional homes that have been foreclosed but are not yet on the market, PLUS properties where the owners are behind on their payments and will probably end up in foreclosure. As real [...]
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 [...]
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