LYDIA LAMOREUX's (llamoreux) Blog

For Austin, Cedar Park, Volente Realtors with clients interested in Volente properties, be aware that cayotes can be a problem for home owners. Besides being nuisance, they are danger to small children and small pets. Visit: http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/wild/nuisance/coyote/;and/or http:/...

I think I mentioned this before, but Austin TX is known as the "Live Music Capital of the World". Austin's Stevie Ray Vaughn...need I say more?           Salt Lick Restaurant in Driftwood, TX was featured on both Travel and Food Network channels. It's famous open pit BBQ is second to none.       ...

For those of you who didn't see this post, I thought I'd share my recent little experience with flower gardening. Last Oct-Nov. I decided that I'd love to see tulips bloom in front of my house in Volente come next Spring. So I diligently prepped the bulbs (50 multi-colored) by refrigerating them ...

I'm visiting my sister in Fayetteville, NC right now. She has taken me to a couple of local restaurants (Thai and Vietnamese) and I really enjoyed the food, especially hot foods laced with Thai pepper (extremely hot, so use very sparingly.) I noticed that these restaurants use jalapeno in both fr...

I think this good news deserves another post. I know that I feel encouraged. Nowadays, it is hard to decipher what nationally reported stats are pertinent to a Realtor's market area. While CA, AZ, FL, NV have seen dramatic swings in their real estate market, TX is remaining stable. Lately we have...

Would the Reverse Mortgage option be a saving grace for the "Baby Boomers?" I went to a REO/Foreclosure workshop and one of the themes stressed is that Realtors should encourage elderly home owners to get Reverse Mortgage...I don't know. Perhaps it's a godsend notion for some, but leaving your ki...

So the Senate approves $15,000 tax break for new home buyers...what types of strings are attached? What I get mostly is that the plan doubles the tax break amount from $7500 to $15,000 and it applies to all new home buyers not just the first time home buyers (though if one hasn't owned a home for...

AR Bloggers, A couple of days ago, I wrote 4 blogs and had a pretty good jump in my AR points (1500 points) advanced well in ranking among TX AR members. Yesterday though was a different story. I wrote about 4 blogs (along with commenting on various other blogs)-pretty nice ones with pix and link...

Nowadays, it is hard to decipher what nationally reported stats are pertinent to a Realtor's market area. While CA, AZ, FL, NV have seen dramatic swings in their real estate market, TX is remaining stable. Lately we have been hearing about how there's a housing bust all throughout U.S. This is a ...

Did anyone watch Fox's "Fringe" last night: http://www.fox.com/fringe/ ? I thought the show resembled X-Files albeit much more glitzy. Even though the main characters were pretty to look at, the show's plot was formulaic and belongs in 'I've already seen that somewhere' category. Special Agent Ol...