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  • Sam Chapman is a real estate agent with Private Label Realty and is licensed in the state of Texas. License # 0509637.

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Lake Travis High School on Fox News
Fox 7 News in Austin aired a story this morning about Lake Travis High School. LTHS has been in the news a lot lately, but mainly because of the amazing football team that won state last year and that is flying high this year. This story featured the Read More...
Lake Travis High School Interact Club Fundraiser to benefit Victims of Hurricane Ike
The Lake Travis High School Interact Club, a community service club, is holding a coin drive to raise money to send to the American Red Cross to benefit victims of Hurricane Ike. This is being done at the high school over the next 10 days, but you can Read More...
Apache Shores New Home Sales
Sales of new homes in Apache Shores have really fallen flat. By new, I mean built in 2007 or later. Only 3 new homes have sold in Apache Shores in 2008 and there are 2 under contract. There are currently 36 active listings for new homes in Apache Shores. Read More...
Lake Travis High School Moves Up In Newseek Ranking
From the Lake Travis ISD weekly e-newsletter: "For the third year in a row, Lake Travis High School is listed as one of Newsweek's Top 1,300 schools in the country. This year, the campus jumped more than 200 spots to be listed at number 503 - Read More...
Lake Travis High School Interact Club Fundraiser
Part of what I do with the Lakeway - Lake Travis Rotary Club is act as adviser to a community service club at Lake Travis High School (LTHS) called Interact. As its international service project for this school year, the Lake Travis High School Interact Read More...
Congratulations Lake Travis Cavaliers
36 - 34 was the final score and I have no idea who would have believed it - except for everyone at Lake Travis High School. The LT football team had a record of 15 and 1 and ended their season with the state championship in 4A Division II football. I Read More...
New Lakeway and Bee Cave Communities
Two new communities are coming on line in the Lakeway and Bee Cave area. North Lakeway features town homes and single family homes. The prices range from the low 300's to the mid 400's. The town homes are 2,500 to 2,600 square feet. The single Read More...
Hill Country Galleria Mall Opens October 24
I just got back from my LAkeway - Lake Travis Rotary Club meeting, at which the developer of the new Hill Country Galleria Mall gave us a great update. Highlites: Dillards will have a soft opening September 21 and the official opening September 26. The Read More...
Robin Hood Haunts Lake Travis
I listened to Rocky Kirk, the superintendent of the Lake Travis ISD, today at a lunch. Rocky gave an update on school district growth and a few other things. At the end of Rocky's talk Russ Eitel asked a question about property tax reform. Rocky told Read More...
Covert Ranch to Become Luxury Community
There is a piece of land of about 1050 acres west of Austin that will be turned into a very nice community of luxury homes if the developer gets everything permitted. What was the Covert Ranch will become Vizcaya, a community slated to have around 500 Read More...
More on the Villas at Flintrock Falls
Anyone interested in a high quality, easy to maintain, golf community home in the Lake Travis area really would consider the Villas at Flintrock Falls. There are four models being built in phase II. They range from 2211 square feet for a single-story Read More...
More on Growth to the West
The Lake Travis Independent School District (LTISD) released its new demographic update. The update basically shows current student populations and shows projections for the future. This study really backs up my post of a few days ago about growth in Read More...
Lakeway Elementary Honored
I had kids in Lakeway Elementary School for 12 years up until 2 years ago and I never had a bad experience with a teacher. I love the school and still volunteer there to help set up high school volunteers to work the fall carnival. Lakeway Elementary Read More...