As real estate agents, we all know about disclosure. Our clients must, in many, if not all, states, fill out a seller's disclosure form disclosing everything they know of that might be wrong with the property they are selling. We must disclose faults and flaws that we know about with the proper
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01/27/2009
When I was a little girl, growing up in East Texas, there were many events where bringing food was simply "the thing to do". Since my mother was a preacher's wife, it was even more mandatory that she do so. One of her favorite standbys was a rum cake (using rum flavoring instead of actual rum,
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01/09/2009
The Executive Director of TxDOT and Governor Rick Perry announced today that the dreaded Trans Texas Corridor is dead as originally planned. The megalithic roadway/railway planned to cut through some of the best farmland in Texas on its way to Mexico stirred much controversy. People living in i
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01/06/2009
Over the past 30 days, I've been having email issues. Well, actually, my ISP has been having email issues. Something about Taiwanese spammers and hacking and Yahoo! (and a few other people) putting them on the Bad List and everyone but Yahoo! taking them off (but I do a lot on YahooGroup
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01/05/2009
There's a lot of attention being given these days to building "green" homes, and to renovating existing homes to be more green. This is a Very Good Thing, in my opinion, for many reasons, not the least of which is, these homes cost less to run. But how many think about something very basic, the
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01/01/2009
One of the delights, this first day of the new year, was reading about a program that the City of Austin has in place to encourage biodiversity within the urban setting. The City of Austin wants to be designated as a community wildlife habitat by the National Wildlife Federation, and to this en
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01/01/2009
