Jarrell Texas - VA-owned home being sold As-Is owned by U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) with a $175,000 list price in Sonterra West subdivision in Jarrell Texas. Similar homes in this subdivision can sell as high as $223,000. The 2019 Tax Value is $210,790. Jarrell Texas is approximately 20 miles from Round Rock Texas and 39 miles from Austin Texas. This is a 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath,  2 car garage, 2-Story home with 2,676 square feet, on a 0.192-acre corner lot. The home was built in 2013 by LGI Homes. Slab foundation. This is a VA-owned REO property being sold As-Is. This property feeds into high demand Jarrell ISD. Buyer must verify all information. The information provided is based on public records. HOA fees are $24 per month. Taxes are currently $6,322 per year. This home sit... 10/03/2019

Jarrell Texas - 1.19-Acre Bank Owned Foreclosure being sold As-Is with a $259,900 minimum bank bid in Jarrell Texas in Hilltop Estates subdivision. Similar homes in this area have recently sold as high as $385,000. The 2018 Tax Value is $364,817. This is a 3 bedroom, 2.5 baths, 2 car garage, 1-Story home with 1,808 square feet, on a 1.19-Acre lot. Built 2005. Slab foundation. This is a Bank-Owned REO property being sold As-Is. The home feeds into Jarrell ISD schools. Buyer must verify all information. Information provided is based on public records. No HOA fees. Taxes are currently $5,868 per year. The Seller is Bank of New York. City water line. Septic system. All electric. Huge workshop. USDA 100% financing approved area. We have a comprehensive Realist property report for this home w... 01/24/2019

 Jarrell Texas - HUD owned home being sold As-Is owned by U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) with a $140,000 list price in Sonterra West subdivision in Jarrell Texas. Similar homes in this subdivision can sell as high as $197,000. Jarrell Texas is approximately 20 miles from Round Rock Texas and 39 miles from Austin Texas. This is a 3 bedroom, 2 full baths, 1 car garage, 1-Story home with 1222 square feet, on a 0.14-Acre lot. The home was built in 2016 by LGI Homes. Slab foundation. This is a HUD owned REO property being sold As-Is. This property feeds into high demand Jarrell ISD. Buyer must verify all information. Information provided is based on public records. HOA fees are $21 per month. Taxes are currently $4303 per year. Tile flooring in common areas, open floo... 05/08/2018

                    Learn more about 3151 E FM 487 and other Jarrell Area Homes or call 512-342-8744 for more info. 2 homes on 14.48 acres Two homes on little more than 14 acres - a gentleman's ranch you will love! Both homes handicap accessible. Main home is a spacious mother in law plan with high end gourmet kitchen and office/studio that can be another bedroom. This property has huge potential as a primary living, get away, bed & breakfast, party venue and more. Property has grazing land for horses or goats etc, surrounded by cattle ranches and fully fenced with locking gate. Not in ETJ, utility lines buried. Must see to appreciate! 10/17/2014

  Don’t you just love surprises?  I love surprises – well, some surprises.   We had a surprise just about three months ago this week.  I went out, as usual, to feed the critters.  Neither Memory the Morgan mare nor Manny the Morgan stallion were down in their usual place to eat.  This is MOST unusual.    A little ways away, still near the barn and food supply but not close enough to see clearly, I saw Manny running round and round, clearly worked up about something.  Then I saw Memory  standing at the rise – he was running around her for some reason.    Then I saw the surprise.  A little chestnut surprise, standing next to Memory.    Given that we’d let Memory run with Manny for several years now, and had resigned ourselves to the fact that there would be no foal from these two, this wa... 07/23/2012

  That was the subject line of the email that arrived in my Inbox a few weeks ago.  It's a subject line I'm usually pleased to see, of course, because it usually means a buyer or seller wanting to talk real estate.  But this time was different.  This time it was the publisher of a new newspaper in our little community of Jarrell, Texas, the Jarrell Star-Ledger.  He'd seen my blog, liked what he saw, and wanted to know if I'd write a column for the paper, just like my blog, all about Jarrell.  I jumped at the chance, of course.  Who wouldn't?!  My own column, with  my photo, in color, where I can hold forth about Jarrell and all things real estate? The hard part?  Not staying on deadline, so much, as keeping the column to 250 words or less.  That is hard for someone as wordy as I am!  I... 03/10/2011

Last week what was, hopefully, the last arctic front of the season (we don't handle those so well) rolled in.  When that happens around here, temperatures drop from the 80's to the 30's or lower in a matter of hours.  As it was still near the warmer end of that range, I looked out and saw the clouds signifying the approach of the front, and went out and took some photos.  I love weather in Central Texas.  It is never, ever, EVER boring!     02/13/2011

When we first moved to Jarrell, Texas, 15 years ago, it was a classic small town Texas rural village.  And we liked it that way - that's why we moved there.  While the school had new buildings, it still had (and still does) the original building built in 1916.  There was a one street downtown that held the Jarrell Supermarket, Eagle Bank, Ginger's Beauty Salon, the post office, Jarrell-Schwertner Water Supply, a gas station, the Speedway Inn, the liquor store, the volunteer fire department.  Across the highway was Doc's, which survived two tornadoes (including the Big One, the F5 that hit shortly after we moved there, May 27, 1997) and Pat's Cafe.  Since that time, Jarrell has incorporated, it has a handful of subdivisions and land has been purchased and made into MUDS for future subdiv... 01/02/2011

Living out on the ranch, we've often had to drive into Austin, or at least Georgetown, for good pizza whenever we get the craving (or plan our pizza cravings around someone being in town and have them pick it up on the way home, and as everyone knows, pizza cravings should be spontaneous!).  Then, one day when we'd driven up to Brookshire Brothers in Salado and Green's Sausage House in Zabcikville (yes, we are all about the food, why do you ask?), we noticed a place on the highway, out by itself, right as we took the exit to head home.  Made a note to check it out.  A few weeks later, we did.  We will never be driving into town for pizza again!  Five minutes from the ranch, in turns out, is a hidden treasure, probably the best pizza I've ever had (though I could wish for a deep dish cru... 06/04/2010

The geese mentioned in my prior post were a hint.  Yesterday confirmed it.  Beautiful blue sky, sunshine, temps in the high 70's.  And the flowers decided to come out and play!  It's springtime out here on the ranch near Jarrell, Texas.               The plum tree by the house put out not only buds, but blossoms!                               Likewise, the peach tree in the front yard had budded out a couple of days ago.                               Yesterday, some decided to bloom - it was just too nice not to!                                These purple flowers are usually our first harbinger of spring, beating the others by a couple of weeks, but this year, everyone decided to party at the same time!                       Wild flowers also put in a show.  I used to pick bouquets of ... 03/10/2010

I went out to throw some hay to the horses and donkey girls and cows a little while ago.  Got a couple of cart loads in the feeder and was filling the cart again.  Had heard some geese overhead, heading North, a bit earlier, and suddenly realized that they were REALLY REALLY LOUD!  (The ranch here outside of Jarrell, Texas, is on a major migration route, so we're used to seeing all sorts of birds coming through this time of year, but this was really a racket.)  So I stopped what I was doing and went to where I could see better.  Phil was already watching, and had spotted them. Rather than the regular "V" of geese that we usually see, there was a giant spiral of geese, all in one place, yelling their fool heads off.  Going round and round and round, an enormous number of them.  We were t... 03/06/2010

The snow kept coming down, and we got some more photos.  Probably about 3 inches or so out there, based on the footprints the dogs make.    The horses and J.D. enjoying the snow       Way off in the distance there, in the middle, a neighbor's cow bellows because of the snow     Off to the right, just barely in the picture, The Donkey Girls doing an Eeyore because of the snow (mustn't get snow in our ears)   Yes, we're silly about this, I know, but this happens once or twice in a lifetime down here! It's melting now, a bit, while still falling, but it was fun while it lasted!  Snow ball fights, our dog chasing the snowballs and being perplexed when they weren't there after they landed, and all. 02/23/2010

And snowing and snowing and snowing!  I know for some of you this is no big deal, but it just doesn't happen here, and when it does, it lasts for, oh, maybe 15 minutes.  Today, it's been snowing for several hours, first tiny flakes and then giant ones.    Those of you who have read my blog and seen the photos from the Great Flood of 2009 will perhaps recognize this as the same view.  (Note the storm shelter in the distance.                 The dogs, however, are not as disapproving of the rising snow as they were of the rising waters.  In fact, they think it's delightful, even though they've never seen it before.   It's still falling, and perhaps I'll update later with photos.  We're right on the line between the predicted 1 to 3 inches and 3 to 6 inches; can't wait to see what it turns... 02/23/2010

With one of the most serious droughts in decades here in Central Texas, pushing two years, grass not only crunching but powdering when you walk on it, giant cracks in the Houston black soil  here on the place, grass growing in the bottom of the year-round creek that's been dry that long, a lot of people, myself included, have been praying for rain.  I was on the verge of organizing an official Rain Dance.  Then, on Friday, it started.  11 inches later, this was the view off of our front porch.      Understand, the creek that rose this high?  Isn't visible during normal (not drought) times, because it's down in a draw. The hundred year flood plain is at the fenceline - you can see a fence post in the middle between the pecan tree and the peach tree in the central right part of the photo ... 09/14/2009

Take one of our neighbors across the road, for example.  No horses on his place (one of the few that doesn't have at least a couple).  But he does love his sheep!  I was driving into Georgetown the other day, pulled out of my drive, and had to pull over and take this shot.  He had put out a big round bale (grown on this very pasture,as it happens - he pulls the sheep off of this one periodically and lets it grow and hays it, so they're eating hay made from the same grass they graze the rest of the year).  The sheep were clearly very interested and enthusiastic - at first glance, all that could be seen was a circle of wagging sheep's tails (and one Great Pyrenees head).  One or two moved slightly between the time I first saw them and the click of the camera, and Rene the GP was barking h... 01/04/2008

 I've been sharing here various views from our little part of the country over time.  Here's another one. This morning I went out to feed the critters, and ask I stepped to the back door and looked out, I saw the sun just coming up.  It was so beautiful that I ran back and got my camera, went out and took a couple of shots, and then just stood and watched.  Even though this is a relatively common view from our window, it still makes me pause and consider the beauty that's all around us every day if we just take time to stop and look at it. I recently passed my 58th birthday and had, for some reason, an intimation of my own mortality. I looked at the years that were possibly left to me and decided that I couldn't afford not to make the most of them.  And that doesn't mean seeing how much... 12/19/2007

It was a quiet, oddly still May afternoon in 1997 when I was walking down the drive to get the mail and noticed what looked like a Blue Norther on the horizon.  Odd . . . very odd for this time of year, unheard of, in fact.  But I decided that I'd turn on the TV when I got inside and see if a thunderstorm was brewing and whether not I should put the horses in the barn.  When I got inside, I turned to Channel 6, the news station to the north of us, expecting to see the little white words up in the corner informing us of storms coming.  Instead, the entire screen was an abstract painting of swirls of the reds, greens, and yellows of the weather map, with some ominous blacks thrown in, and the weatherman was oddly strained and excited.  I listened as he described the path of a batch of tor... 05/27/2007