February 2009 - Posts
Lakeway Police Chief, Gordon Bowers, answered a question today at a Rotary Club meeting about an attempted robbery in Lakeway. Apparently, a young lady went in to the bar at the Lakeway Spa and Resort to try to pick up a guy. Well, she did manage to meet
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I heard Ted Jones, Senior V.P. and Chief Economist for Stewart Title Co. present his outlook for the economy for 2009 a couple of days ago. I have heard Ted speak before during better times and he always seemed a little more optimistic than I was at the
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From Builder Magazine. Click here for the article. The top five cities are all in Texas, with Austin being #2. Sorry if this is a bit cynical, but talking about the healthiest housing markets right now is kind of like talking about the healthiest patient
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Yes, I said hospital s . A sign went up around a year ago by the post office in Lakeway on RR 620. The sign advertised a hospital. Close to the same time, the big regional hospital near the high school was announced. The big hospital will be a really
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In the front yard on of my home in Apache Shores on Valentine's Day in 2003. Later in February, 2003. That was a cold month for Austin. I took this photo in Lakeway this morning - February 12, 2009. January was cold, but February has hardly been like
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From Alamo Title Co. in Austin: Units for Sale: (compared to January 2008) New listings were down 14.01%. Pendings were up 8.08%. Solds decreased by 43.24% . As for Average Prices: The "New Listings" average list price is up 1.86% to 320,225.
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Many people assume foreclosures can be great deals because of past history. However, this may not be the case in todays market. In the not-so-recent past, people were putting 20% or more down on a home because of strict lending practices. Foreclosures
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New Mexico Business Weekly published the list of cities in the country that had the best job growth from December, 2007 to December, 2008 and Texas had 4 of the top 5 cities on the list with Austin at #5. The growth was measured in the number of jobs
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This is one of many very cool speleotherms (cave formations) to look at in Cave Without a Name . The cave is around 11 miles east of Boerne and is one of the nicest caves I have toured in Texas. This is a living cave with formations that are constantly
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I had a call from a very nice lady in Vail this afternoon and we talked for over 10 minutes. At one point she asked if she was talking to the Austin Real Estate Guy and I told her that she was. She went on to tell me that I had the best real estate website
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A Rotarian in Australia commented on my post of last week about the ethics and character education program for elementary and middle schoolers called EarlyAct FirstKnight. His comment asked about getting this program started in other areas. For anyone
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Anyone out there got anything good to say? Post should be related to real estate or happenings in and around Austin. Keep in mind that I reserve the right to edit articles before I post them. Please contact me if you're interested.
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