Austin Property Appraiser

We put together a quick video over the weekend that might answer a few appraisal preparation questions.     We'd be happy to update the video to reflect your opinions on what you feel like your clients need to know to be prepared for an appraisers' visit. If you have some other topics that you th...

Do you like chicken?  How about chickens, the kind that don't come shrink-wrapped, ready to cook for dinner? We like both, or all of the above.  We want to put in a chicken coop, and give our kids a little (or big) first-hand lesson in where some of our food comes from.  Unfortunately, our HOA do...

If you like barbecue, you'll LOVE Black's Barbecue in Lockhart, Texas. We visited Lockhart this past weekend, to take photographs for part of our "shoooting the town" series on our website. After a few hours of photographing the downtown square, including the historic Caldwell County Courthouse,...

Seems like it's always the photographs that make us want to share. We have an old truck, one that our HOA doesn't like.  Fortunately, it's within the guidelines for the subdivision, so we've been permitted to keep it.  That was sheer luck because when Alison bought it a few years back, she didn't...

Because we seem to live, breathe and eat real estate (the latter two perhaps because of our own never-ending house renovations), we end up spending a lot of time talking about it as well. A few months back, Alison wrote a blog post on our own site about measuring stairs.  We include them in the f...

It is 6:00 AM your alarm clock just went off. But, for some reason you’ve already been awake for at least an hour.  You have just been lying there breathing in and out with a somewhat anxious feeling, a feeling of urgency, a fire in your belly just building up to that minute, that second and you ...

We had a great weekend with the family! This last weekend Alison, the kiddos and I decided to pack all of our camera gear and get out of the house for what would be an interesting little tour of four little towns just south of Austin:  Kyle, Gruene, Wimberley and Driftwood.  We stopped at each pl...

As a new Active Rain member, I'm learning my way around and am excited to read the blog posts from members that have a national focus as well as bloggers talking about our local market here in Austin, Texas. My wife and I have been blogging on our own real estate appraisal site for over a year, a...