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How can a pumpkin bring you closer to God?  For those of you who follow my blog you know that I live in a small town southwest of Austin named Dripping Springs. It's the kind of place that you watch out for each others kids and you greet each other as you pass on the streets. Dripping Springs is ...
10/11/2009
The Polo Club in Dripping Springs (also known as Polo Club at Rooster Springs)  is arguably the preeminent  subdivision in Northern Hays County.  Once you drive through the gates you will see why.  From the meticulously groomed landscaping, the estate sized lots nestled among centuries-old live o...
10/11/2009
How do you get paid for sending your kids to college?  Become a real estate investor!  As a parent if you purchase a property for your child to live in while they attend collegeand rent out the additional rooms. You may qualifyy as a real estate investor.  Thus qualifying you for up to $25,000/yr...
10/06/2009
I had a client ask me yesterday, "What's the market going to look like in the spring?"  I don't have a crystal ball, but here's one man's opinion. I Live and work in a small town just outside of Austin Texas called Dripping Springs. Our housing market hasn't been affected as harshly as some parts...
10/03/2009
Attention Wells Branch Home buyers!!  This is one home you must take a look at.  The owners have just reduced this home by almost $9,000.00 and they are willing to let you take that price reduction or use it to buy your rate down.  Why would you want to buy your rate down?  Well, buying your rate...
10/03/2009
If your shopping for a home in the Rooster Springs Elementary School zone this home is a must see!  We will have this home open this Sunday, 9/27, from 1-4.  This gem is located in the desirable Highpointe subdivision and did I already say it feeds into the exemplary Rooster Springs Elementary of...
09/25/2009
Come be an athletic supporter!  That made you look.  Come out and show your support for Dripping Springs Youth Sports Association (DSYSA).  Spend an evening under the stars at Dripping Springs Founders park, meet your neighbors listen to some live music and have some BBQ.  There will be activitie...
09/24/2009
Go Tigers!  The 2009 public school rankings put out by a children's advocacy group, Children at Risk, ranked Dripping Springs High School number 5 out of 47 pubic high schools in the greater Austin area.  The advocacy group used factors such as national and state test scores, class size, graduati...
09/22/2009
Attention all parents, invest in your children's future, take advantage of the $8,000 tax credit and gain a tax deduction.  Co-ownership between parents and children, where the non-occupying relative (parent) owns at a minimum 10% of the property and rents their portion of the property to the occ...
09/16/2009
The good, the bad and the assumable, the long maligned VA loan. Everybody loves to bash the VA loan but few really understand the benefits it offers. Few people know that VA loans do not contain a due on sale clause (the clause that allows the bank to call the loan in when the property title tran...
09/11/2009
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