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Avery Ranch  Just a quick 15 minute drive Northwest of Austin Texas is beautiful Avery Ranch. A master planned community that incorporates the natural beauty of the Texas Hill Country with modern architecture. Avery Ranch is located minutes from major employers like IBM, Dell, Motorola, State Far...
07/23/2007
Lake travis flood The TEXAS Flood at LAKE TRAVIS Lake Travis is 63 miles long and is 4.5 miles at its widest point. The lake covers 18,929 acres, and its capacity is 1,953,936 acre-feet. The lake is considered full at an elevation of 681.1 msl. At this elevation the lake contains 382,092,882,600 ...
07/22/2007
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The TEXAS Flood at LAKE TRAVIS Lake Travis is 63 miles long and is 4.5 miles at its widest point. The lake covers 18,929 acres, and its capacity is 1,953,936 acre-feet. The lake is considered full at an elevation of 681.1 msl. At this elevation the lake contains 382,092,882,600 gallons of water. ...
07/21/2007
Lake Travis is 63 miles long and is 4.5 miles at its widest point. The lake covers 18,929 acres, and its capacity is 1,953,936 acre-feet. The lake is considered full at an elevation of 681.1 msl. At this elevation the lake contains 382,092,882,600 gallons of water. The recent floods in Texas brou...
07/20/2007
The downtown condo market is really taking off with highrise projects all over.  The skyline is changing with these high end places.  Some are going for well over a million.  For the Austin market this is high dollar. In relation to other parts of the country I guess its reasonable.  Check out th...
07/20/2007
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The builders in Central Texas continue to offer large realtor bonuses for sales of homes in the outer areas of Austin.  These incentives are in conjunction with buyer bonuses and can amount to thousands of dollars.  I have talked to my brother who is a realtor on the West coast and he says the sa...
07/20/2007
Many realtors will run right out and meet strangers at a home with out qualifying them.  I have had a few close friends over the years wish they had not done this.  If you go to a car dealer they copy your license before you can leave the lot in a car. As realtors we should require clients to com...
07/19/2007
OK --weather its a tree house or a townhouse an old home or a dome home we realtors are charged with marketing it to the right buyer.  I recently took on a listing against my better judgement that was something no other realtors wanted.  I figured it was just a matter of taking the right pictures...
07/19/2007
Don't change jobs. Even if you have another job in place before you leave and it pays more also don't leave your current job until you've closed on your mortgage. Don't move your money or long-term investments around. Keep things the way they are until after the closing. Moving money from your sa...
07/19/2007
1031 Exchanges which are also called tax deferred exchanges. This means the tax basis from the sale of a property is not eliminated but carried over to the property that is purchased. Tax deferral benefits of exchanging are only allowed on investment property but Section 121 of the code has a per...
07/19/2007
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