December 2008 - Posts
There was an article in the Houston Chronicle recently that talked about how many people moved to Texas between July, 2007 and July 1, 2008. As you can see on the chart to the left, Texas lead the nation in terms of the number of people moving here. The
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The Hills, commonly called the Hills of Lakeway, is a very nice gated community. People often drive out to the Lakeway area and want to drive through The Hills to look at homes. The main gate on Lohman's Crossing is manned and the guards routinely
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I walked into my office one day over a year ago and Moe Paknia was sitting at his computer. I asked Moe how he backed up his computer. H gave me this long, serious look and said: "like this." Then Moe gently pushed his computer back a few inches
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OK, so what's the big deal? Actually, there are two things significant about seeing this Roadrunner. I've seen many of the critters in my neighborhood and they have been in the yard quite a bit. However, I have never seen one that let me get as
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House Hunters did a segment on Steiner Ranch in Austin and it gave me the impression that it might spook people a bit. What specifically made me feel like this was the price points they were talking about. The narrator stated that an Austin metro house
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Who has it? Austinhomesearch dot com doesn't. Many agent sites don't have a great search feature. Some brokerage sites don't have good property search pages. Some individual agents have had custom online home searches built. My Austin real
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Hey you REALTORS who are out there scanning highly ranked sites and blogs - want a good blog to read? Visit http://www.netamorfasis.com . This is a blog that Mary McKnight keeps and I love reading her posts. The blog "is a marketing resource for
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What Are You Waiting For? If you're in the market for a new home or thinking about refinancing, I have one question for you: What are you waiting for? I'm talking to those of you who are waiting for interest rates to get better. Interest rates
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California is a leader in many ways, including screwing things up. In 2007, the size of economic output in California was huge. If California had been a country, it would have had the world's 10th largest economy. So now the state legislators have
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I was talking with my friend, Moe Paknia, the other day about the auction of foreclosures in Travis County. The newspaper ran a story about the auctions being slower than normal. Moe works with a lot of investors and knows the foreclosure market very
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