Austin Real Estate Blog 2222

Texas has some great old buildings, frequently marginalized by the big, new shopping centers that seem to crop up everywhere. Hutto, just a little northeast of Austin, is no exception. The old downtown is just a few blocks, and just a few buildings. This one window was just too marvelous not to s...

Rats! Just when you thought you and your clients had enough to worry about! Have you ever had a rat problem with one of your sellers' homes? Found some rat droppings somewhere and wondered if they've breached the interior? Home Inspector Steve has some great tips about how to avoid these nasty cr...

The Robert Mueller Redevlopment Area in Austin is east of I-35 and has been re-developed into a urban live/work area with excellent access to downtown and even to north-bound commute destinations in the Austin Texas area. Here are some quick stats for the 12 month leading up to May 14th, 2011: A ...

Please take a few minutes to read the post re-blogged below from Bob Gilbert in Katy Texas about Memorial Day. It is too easy to just think of it as a day the kids have off from school, the day some stores are closed, etc. and to forget the real meaning behind this holiday.Memorial day is right a...

Michael has made a very good list of the things we tell clients about staging. What I like in particular is how he broke these recommendationd down and included some cost guidelines to show how these things really aren't big ticket items, especially when compared to the cost of carrying the mortg...

If you're running a WordPress blog as your real estate website, you're probably running a Plugin that tells Google (and others) about your site's sitemap: where to find the content. Did you know that you can also tell Google specifically about images, too? If you have a lot of images, and you've ...

Once you've been at it for a while on WordPress, you'll become a Plugin pro. After you've written a bunch of content, and your categories are filling up, you might decide to do a little spring cleaning. You know, re-arrange the furniture so to speak. When you move pages and posts around, you may ...

I have a little story to share. The performance on one of my sites has been really really bad for months. I've gone round and round and round with the service provider. They always say it's not a problem "on their end", and that I must have some configuration problems. It's on a shared server. Fl...

Hello late-night Active Rainers. I wanted to re-blog my husband's post from late yesterday about using REOs as comps when  appraising property. Orlando is an appraiser here in Austin, Texas and he's committed to trying to get some answers into the hands of the Active Rain community, which has bee...

In case you missed it, even as a featured post . . . Diane provides the BEST explanation of Absorption Rate I've seen. This is one of those things that needs to be carefully explained, or people will glaze over and stop listening - and then they don't know something they really need to know about...