March 2009 - Posts
A friend and associate at the Keller Williams Lake Travis office stood up at our sales meeting and held up some newspaper clippings. They had been used as packing material and were dated as having been published in 1993. What she read to us was from the
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Forbe's is out with its list of best places for business and careers and Austin is at #8, which is a big jump up from last year's list. The list ranks metro areas using job growth, education, net migration, income levels, housing and other criteria.
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There is a very interesting youtube video about the Dallas, Houston, San Antonio triangle, calling it the Texaplex. There are some very interesting statements in the video talking about why Texas will continue to be strong regardless of how the rest of
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Austin Bergstrom International Airport (ABIA) ranked third worldwide for airports with between 5 million and 15 million passengers. The study was done by the Airports Council International and ranked airports based on 30 aspects of service for flight
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I attended PubCon in Austin last week. PubCon is a conference for people interested in search engine marketing (SEM) and search engine optimization (SEO). It was interesting to see so many people with Macs and PCs at various seminars. I saw more Tweetdecks
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I saw an article that was written at the end of February that talked about the possibility of home prices going up in Austin in 2011. The reasoning behind this is the fact that builders have really slowed new home starts. The idea is that as what is on
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If you have ever shopped at any of the stores in the shopping center at Four Points where HEB is, you know it can be a pain getting out of the parking lot. The exit that takes you to 2222 right before it intersects with 620 can be a nightmare. This is
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It is raining. So? So it hasn't rained in a while and you know what that means - automobile accidents. I attended day 1 of Pubcon at the Norris Conference Center today. I saw 2 wrecks in the morning on 2222 and one on the way home in the afternoon.
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People who know me will know that I'm a weather nut. I love following hurricanes and watching severe weather. I also, for the first time in a while, like the forecast for Austin and Central Texas later this week. It looks like this: What you see above
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Well, the City Council is at it again. They unanimously approved a huge array of photovoltaic cells east of Austin to generate electricity for city customers. What were they thinking? The economy is in a tailspin, people are losing jobs and spending is
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OK, the word is out. I haven't studied it yet, but wanted people who are interested to be able to look through it. So here are some links for you: Making Home Affordable Refinance and Modification Options FAQ page with 37 questions and answers. Click
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I just pulled some stats for January and February to see how things have slowed in the Austin real estate market. These figures are for single-family homes, condos, townhomes and mobile homes and the numbers came directly from the MLS. As you can see,
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