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Home Warranty Coverage – What does it do for me?

Posted on August 14, 2009. Filed under: Anything Goes, Closings 101, First Time Home Buyer, Fix It, Smart Buyers, Smart Real Estate | Tags: , , |

The mystical home warranty. This blog tells more about general home warranty coverage, what it costs, and includes a few tricks of the trade you’ll need to know when reporting any problem to your warranty company!

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What can you get for $89,000 … we saw the craziest house today

Posted on January 15, 2009. Filed under: Anything Goes | Tags: |

So we saw the craziest house this week. The common thought today is that we wait and prices will go down, interest rates will get even lower and you will get this great house at a steal of a price.  So a steal house for $89,000 in a neighborhood selling around $130,000 will include your [...]

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The PERFECT House

Posted on January 10, 2009. Filed under: Anything Goes, Smart Real Estate |

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NPR Podcast: The Giant Pool of Money

Posted on August 6, 2008. Filed under: Anything Goes, Finance, Smart Real Estate | Tags: , |

Do you feel somewhat clueless as to how such enormous banks and lenders could have gotten themselves into such a sticky economic position? Kind of like seeing an otherwise intelligent kid with his head stuck between two fence pickets. Or an otherwise intelligent friend get into and stuck in a really bad relationship. Or an [...]

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hey, ACL schedule is out!

Posted on June 4, 2008. Filed under: Anything Goes, Austin | Tags: |

 

 

woo hoo! ACL 2008 schedule is out. I’ve attached a .pdf (08_aclmf_grids1) or you can get your own at http://www.aclfestival.com/schedule/day2.htm.If you’re a visitor to Austin and tempted or considering buying real estate in one of the healthiest markets in the country, then click around the blog for market info and search away at www.searchAtown.com. Call [...]

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driving is a lot easier

Posted on May 15, 2008. Filed under: Anything Goes | Tags: |

My father is following a bit too fast in his father’s footsteps. You see, Grandpa had full blown dementia at 80 and Dad, at 78, appears to be not too far behind. He often references his 20 years flying jets for the USAF in relation to his driving skills (Dodge Magnum, one of the sexier [...]

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Mashup

Posted on April 14, 2008. Filed under: Anything Goes, Austin | Tags: , |

Originally uploaded by thenelsonproject

This is an Austin, TX real estate blog. This post is about the ACL Festival. What ties the two together is that ACL brings thousands of people into Austin who, while they are here, fantasize about living in Austin.
First, the ACL info. The Festival lineup is being released tomorrow. Here is a [...]

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Bad Fences, Bad Neighbors

Posted on April 10, 2008. Filed under: Anything Goes, Austin | Tags: , , , , |

 
 

 
 
  Originally uploaded by thenelsonproject
 

Mr. Rogers sang “It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood” and asked “won’t you be my neighbor?” Unfortunately, we rarely get to pick who lives next door. If such a selection process were possible, there would indeed be something to sing about and fewer movies.
Much had been said, written and aired [...]

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South Austin: where you can be weird and have chickens too.

Posted on March 28, 2008. Filed under: Anything Goes, Core Austin, Neighborhood Navigation | Tags: , , , |

A gaggle of teenagers strutted into a convenience store in South Austin yesterday sporting various t-shirts…the tag line on the back of one boy left me silently applauding…”Old Austin hasn’t died.  It just moved South.”  Kudo’s to the unknown author–s/he is definitely a keen supporter of the philosophy that makes Austin so appealing: Keep Austin Weird.
When [...]

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SOCO neighborhood–it’s the frosting on our Austin cake.

Posted on March 26, 2008. Filed under: Anything Goes, Austin, Neighborhood Navigation | Tags: , , |

Originally uploaded by thenelsonproject
[Contributed by our favorite south Austin correspondent, Patti P.]
Despite record breaking high temps last week, SOCO–the funky neighborhood & quirky/artsy shopping district south of the Congress Street bridge in Austin, TX stayed oh so cool. Even the campy cupcake vendor operating out of a vintage silver airstream “Hey Cupcake” managed to [...]

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