Austin TX - Low Flow Toilet Rebate Program Ends Today! Today is the last day you can submit for a rebate in Austin TX when purchasing a low-flow toilet at a retail store. This program has been in place since the 90's and has run its course. There are too many other things that are working better
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06/30/2010
New Construction Homes - Austin TX Home Builders - Do you ever wonder why some houses are built with a wall that's not square or a wall that seems warped or curved? Take a look at this picture and you'll see part of the reason for this... This wood is sitting across the street from me waiting to
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06/29/2010
Aquapalooza 2010 Lake Travis is in just 2 weeks. It's typically at the end of July, but they have decided to have the main event mid-July this year on Saturday July 10, 12-8pm. You can get further information at the official website, as well as register your boat. Your boat is your ticket for th
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06/28/2010
New Construction Homes - Austin TX Home builders - Why working with a Realtor can save you thou$and$ in the long run. Take a look at the picture below... What do you see? I see a HUGE plumbing issue!! Can you believe this was not caught prior to the concrete being poured? What are they going to
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06/28/2010
The City of Lakeway TX had a great exhibit this weekend, the Lakeway Emergency Services and Bike Rodeo. There were people from every branch of the different emergency services ready to give tours of their vehicles and explain everything about what they do. By far, Alyssa's favorite was the Bomb
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06/28/2010
Real Estate - Austin TX Homes for Sale - Closings for residential real estate in Austin TX were up in May, by 24% compared to May 2009, with a total of $508M in inventory, being 2074 single family homes. That sounds like a great number, right? Well, let's look at some other things going on. The
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06/26/2010
BabyHarris2 update. This is week 17. My fingers have been crossed that all the previous complications I went through are now long behind me and the rest of the 23 weeks will be drama-free. At week 17, I now have some energy back. I'm not running marathons or anything, but I'm not sleeping on the
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06/25/2010
Falconhead West - Bee Cave Austin TX - The new park is expanding!! This is awesome news! I was hoping they would announce a pool was going to be built for the community, but they didn't. Instead, the City Council approved a parking lot, a restroom, and 3+ miles of hike and bike trails. And get th
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06/24/2010
Price adjustments are very common in today's market. Would you agree that most price adjustments you see would be going in the down direction? This morning, I was browsing the MLS and came across a very interesting listing. Price adjustments went up, and not just one, like happens sometimes, but
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06/23/2010
We had fun in the sun at Bull Creek in Austin TX. I had never been there before, but Mike talks about how he used to go there all the time as a kid, so we took Alyssa there on Father's Day. It's not quite what I had imagined as I would have thought it would have been more family friendly with mor
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06/23/2010