Last night, I went to my very first City Council meeting, the City of Bee Cave. We are having an issue in our city as we're in an in between stage of growth. Yesterday's meeting was important because the City Council was voting on whether or not to hold a special election in May for the resident
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02/26/2013
This is Landon at a birthday party eating a cupcake... I don't think any of the kids enjoyed it quite like he did... **Are You Packed Yet?** Donna Harris, REALTOR®RE/MAX Austin Skylinewww.DonnaHomes.comDonna@DonnaHomes.comaustin-texas-homes-for-sale.com Austin TX Real Estate and the surrounding a
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02/22/2013
Which one of these is not like the other... Yes, we had the builder change it so they're all the same... it's important to keep an eye on your house when you're building it in order to catch mistakes like this. **Are You Packed Yet?** Donna Harris, REALTOR®RE/MAX Austin Skylinewww.DonnaHomes.co
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02/21/2013
Do you ever feel like you have a black cloud looming overhead? This was my view driving to my early morning appointment this morning. This black cloud was "following" me. I out ran/drove it a couple of times, but then when stopped at a red light, it would catch back up... It was actually very sca
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02/21/2013
A few months ago, I had a buyer who submitted an offer on a property. There were multiple offers and we were told to submit "best and final". After some thinking, the buyer increased his offer a little. He won. He was excited, per se, but he was also disappointed. His reaction, "I knew I offered
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02/21/2013
I feel like a broken record in all my market reports lately, but Austin really is on fire and doing well!! People thought the momentum couldn't sustain into the new year, and those people were wrong. Usually I like to break market reports down by neighborhoods, but this one is a blanket analysis
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02/19/2013
A couple of months ago, I was asked if it was worth getting a real estate license to sell your own house. The short answer? NO! This person's theory was they had a $500k house and commissions would be upwards of $30,000. What this person wasn't thinking about was that fee is, in some way, split
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02/18/2013
When you're a Seller, is your goal to Sell your house or to just have a sign in front letting people know your choice in Landscaping signs? I would think you would want to sell it. How do you sell a house? You have to allow people inside to look at the house. To get people inside to look at yo
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02/07/2013
Californians have been jumping ship to Texas for years. It's rumored that we're going to see an influx of more Californians because new tax measures that were passed in November 2012 called Proposition 30. This Proposition 30 is going to effect a lot of people, but according to out-dated data fro
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02/01/2013
Austin tops Forbes' list of America's Fastest Growing Cities for the THIRD year in a row!! Amazing!! We're definitely seeing all the growth as more and more neighborhoods are starting as other neighborhoods are in close-out and the builders need to stay busy. The area is growing so much that so
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02/01/2013
