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- Preparing To Buy A Home
By: Ki Gray | - Are you preparing to buy a home for the first time? Or have you closed on a number of homes in the past and are preparing to buy your next home? Regardless, you'll want to keep in mind the steps necessary to successfully navigate the preparations for buying that next home.
Initially, you'll want to determine your income, debts and savings and decide what you can afford. Instead of doing all the calculations and attempting to make the determinations yourself, you may want to dec ...
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- Storm Clouds On The Solar Horizon
By: Ki Gray | - This is the conundrum of doing good things for the environment: How do you embrace green energy without the old technology providers becoming broke and obsolete in the process? That is the dilemma faced by the City of Austin and Austin Energy as they try to promote solar energy.
Austin Energy began an initiative to increase solar power in the community by offering rebates for installing solar roof-top panels. It is one of the largest solar rebate programs in the country and has ...
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- Why Recession Recovery Will Be Slow
By: Ki Gray | - Austin is one of 79 metro areas across the country to be officially out of the recession, according to Moody's. Although the state of Texas is still considered to be suffering the constraints of the recession, Austin and seven other Texas cities have been given the all clear. This determination was based on an index that included employment, housing starts and home prices.
In fact, the latest poll of economist says that at least 80 percent of them agree that the recession is ove ...
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- The Recession Is Over, In Case You Hadn't Noticed
By: Ki Gray | - The Associated Press reported recently that a new government survey indicates that the recession is over. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and analysts across the country say that the economy is showing growth again. However, what no one can predict is how deeply the so called Great Recession has permanently changed Americans' spending habits.
"A study by research firm AlixPartners concluded that once a new normal sets in after this recession ends, Americans will spend at a ...
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- The Austin Convention Center In Historic Downtown Austin
By: Ki Gray | - The Austin Convention Center is a huge, sprawling convention complex in the heart of downtown Austin, and the facility can host just about any gathering, from sports events to conventions, garden shows, car shows, sales of every imaginable kind, and political gatherings, among others. The Center is located between Cesar Chavez to the South, 4th Street to the north, and Red River on one side and Trinity on the other. It covers numerous city blocks, and is practically a city inside a city.
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- Getting Office Space On A Budget
By: Joe Cline | - An office business center is a shared office facility or series of facilities, fully equipped, staffed and furnished to need. Based on a monthly market value, a person or small business can rent a facility or office of this nature. This enables the business to operate with a business setting, at a fraction of the overhead. The businesses in a specific area share common facilities like rest rooms, break or lunch rooms, conference rooms and services such as secretarial, network management, copying ...
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- The Why And The How-to Of Real Estate Investment
By: Joe Cline | - These days, Wall Street and the stock market make people a little wary. The idea of investing your money in something that roller-coasters up and down on a regular basis doesnt exactly sound, well, sound. Besides, its complicated. There are stocks and bonds, bull markets and bear markets. You need to know when to sell and when to buy. For that matter, you need to know what to sell and what to buy. The system is all well and good for someone who understands that kin ...
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- Star Of Texas Rodeo In Austin
By: Ki Gray | - This is the time of year when Austin's residents head down to Auditorium Shores for a full, Texan Cowboy Breakfast with all the fixings, the prelude to the Star of Texas Rodeo. Every spring, during the first weekend of March, many Austinites head to the shores of Lady Bird Lake to get a belly full of biscuits and gravy, bacon and sausage, eggs, and various other kinds of grub, including grits and hash browns, and with a full stomach, make plans to attend the rodeo.
This weekend, ...
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- Seeing The Big Picture At Austin's Imax
By: Joe Cline | - If you want to see a plain, old movie, you can find any number of theatres playing all sorts of mainstream films throughout Austin. Action, horror, romance and drama are only a short walk, bus ride or car trip away. But when youve finished seeing the show, you may wish that there had been a little more flair and panache to truly make that 10-dollar ticket worth it. Youll be mildly disappointed (even if tit was the best film of the year) as you wander home, thinking you should hav ...
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- Why You Should Use An Austin Mls Search And Realtor Links
By: Vikram Kumar | - If you are looking for a home, condo, investment property or any type of real estate in Austin, Texas, you should be sure that your realtor is using an Austin MLS search to help you find the perfect homes for you. In some cases, the realtor may also apply realtor links on their website to give you additional help. The more of a selection you have when you are looking for homes in Austin, the better your chances are of finding the ideal property for you.
You do not want a realt ...
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- What You Need To Know About The Austin Mls And Real Estate Link Exchange
By: Vikram Kumar | - Your best chance of finding property in Austin is through the Austin MLS. Most realtors today use the MLS which is an anagram for the Multiple Listing Service. This gives you the opportunity to find all of the properties that are for sale in the area, not just those that are listings of one realtor. Whether you are looking for a home or selling a home in Austin, it pays to use a realtor that not only uses the MLS but also has a website that uses a real estate link exchange.
A ...
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- The Round Rock Express - Celebrating America's Favorite Pastime
By: Joe Cline | - Everyone knows the Astros, at least everyone in Austin and in Texas. They are the major league baseball team of Texas, hitting homeruns and striking visiting players out whenever possible, from their home-base of Houston. While they may not be as nationally known as the Yankees, the Dodgers or the Red Sox, they are still a baseball force to be reckoned with, and part of that can be owed to a team within Austin, a minor league team known as the Round Rock Express.
The Round Rock Ex ...
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- Agave Development In Austin Real Estate
By: Dane Smith | - Modern housing is on the rise in Austin, making it easier for the modernist to move into a brand new home, instead of waiting for a mid century A.D. Stenger to come on the market. Six miles east on Martin Luther King Blvd, the Agave residential development is finishing up its first round of homes. Touted as Austins premier contemporary residential development, all of Agaves 160 homes will be built with a modern flair.
Agave is actually the third phase of Sender ...
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- South By Southwest In Austin
By: Dane Smith | - In 1987, South by Southwest started as a weekend long music festival run by a handful of people, and today has grown into a 10 day long music, film and interactive festival with a full time, year round staff, and 1500 volunteers. The number of musical acts has increased ten fold, and attendance has gone from 700 people to over 10,000.
Ten years ago, Billboard magazine didnt even recognize SXSW as an actual industry event. But by catering to the public instead of solely ...
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- Austin Burger Places
By: Dane Smith | - Though many in Austin consider themselves to be health conscious, there are still moments in each of their lives when a good hamburger sounds delicious. Austin is home to many burger joints, and some have been around for over half a century.
Hut's Hamburgers has been around since 1939. Homer "Hut" Hutson opened his establishment originally on S. Congress Avenue. That same year, Sammie's Drive-In opened on W. 6th Street. In 1959, Hut moved his burger joint to the current lo ...
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- Austin Profiles: Bookpeople
By: Dane Smith | - Since 1970, BookPeople has been offering a wide variety of literary works to magazine browsers and rare book collectors and all those in between. With a built-in coffee shop, and lots of comfortable seating nooks scattered throughout the store, BookPeople promotes a relaxed atmosphere that will invariably lead to a purchase or two.
Located on the corner of 6th street and Lamar, BookPeople boasts a sprawling 28,000 square foot two-story store with over 150,000 titles from which to cho ...
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- Austin Profiles: Amy's Ice Cream
By: Dane Smith | - Austin prides itself on many things, and having independent retailers around town would be one. Amys Ice Cream got its start in Austin back in 1984, and currently is one of Austins pride and joys.
Amy Simmons got the ice cream bug while attending college at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. She was majoring in Pre-Med and working for Steves Ice Cream shop, and ended up putting off medical school to help the ice cream business grow. Steves ended up being b ...
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- Austin Profiles: North Campus
By: Dane Smith | - In Austin, Texas, just north of one of the largest universities in the US, lies the neighborhood many refer to solely as North Campus. This should be a small indicator of exactly how much Austin's culture and prosperity is influenced by the University of Texas. This area is home to an incredible amount of diversity for relatively compact size. Of all the North Campus residents, the largest demographic is also the most difficult to describe with any certainty: the students. While the population o ...
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- Austin Neighborhoods: French Place
By: Dane Smith | - Nestled in central Austin between Airport Boulevard and Manor Road lies the quiet yet vibrant neighborhood of French Place. Austin has always been renowned for its individual personality, and while its expansion continues to dilute that sentiment over the years, these quaint houses with ample yards exemplify the type of house considered a classic "Austin home." While other adjacent areas such as Hyde Park, Maplewood, Tarrytown, and all the property around the University of Texas have skyrocketed ...
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- Austin Neighborhoods: Barton Hills
By: Dane Smith | - Tucked away off the bustling restaurant row on Barton Springs road, and just west of Lamar Boulevard, lies a conglomerate of little neighborhoods that make up Austin's Barton Hills community.
The area where Barton Hills is currently located holds some of Austin's oldest historical features. In the early 1990s, dinosaur footprints were found dating back to the late Cretaceous period, 97 to 65 million years ago. Artifacts have also been found from Native American tribe ...
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- A Guide To Austin's Greenbelts
By: Dane Smith | - On the eastern edge of the Edward's plateau lies one of Austin's greatest treasures: the Barton Creek Greenbelt. After millions of years, the runoff of rainwater carved a canyon into the plateau, and created one of Austin's treasures.
The most popular of Austin's greenbelts, the Barton Creek greenbelt is just shy of 8 miles long, and covers 809 acres. The greenbelt runs from Zilker Park downtown, to the rocky entrance of Camp Craft Road, just off of t ...
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- Austin Farmer's Markets
By: Dane Smith | - As many Austinites relish living a healthy lifestyle, it's no surprise that Farmers' Markets are a hit in the city. The markets bring fresh foods from locally grown areas to those looking for an alternative to the goods found in the neighborhood grocery store.
Though many cities don't have a farmers' market, Austin has had up to five at one time, with the Austin Farmers' Market being one of the most popular. Located both in the center of town, at 4th ...
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- Profiles In Green Building: The Austin Real Estate Market
By: Dane Smith | - Austin has long been a home for friendly folk- friendly to each other, friendly to animals, and friendly to the environment. What used to be considered as only the concerns of hippies and the bohemian sect, environmentalism is now at the forefront of commercial and residential design, and "green" businesses are popping up nationwide. Austin, however, was the first city in the United States to establish a local green-building program, laying out environmentally friendly and sustainable guidelin ...
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- Sxsw: Which Admission Option Is Best For You?
By: Dane Smith | - Every March, thousands of music lovers and industry insiders flock to Austin to party, network, and discover the next great band at the annual South by Southwest Music Festival. The weeklong music blowout has been packing them in since it was founded in 1987. Austin was chosen as the site for the annual festival because of its abundance of unique clubs featuring country, folk, punk, reggae, jazz, and rock artists on a nightly basis. In the late 90s, the festival added two new additions.
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- Waterloo Records: An Austin Original
By: Dane Smith | - Since 1982, Waterloo Records has been providing Austin with music for all tastes. Winning Best Record Store in the Austin Chronicle Reader's Poll since its inception explains why Waterloo Records still stands when many other record stores have fallen.
John Kunz partnered with Louis Karp to open Waterloo, and five years later he became the sole owner. Waterloo Records was originally located at 221 South Lamar, and sold vinyl records exclusively. After outgrowing t ...
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- The Alamo Drafthouse - An Austin Original
By: Dane Smith | - Not many new businesses open their doors and become an immediate Austin success, but the Alamo Drafthouse is an exception to the rule. In 1997, Tim and Karrie League opened the Alamo Drafthouse in a downtown Austin warehouse building that was being used as a parking garage, playing mostly second run movies. Their twist to the movie-going experience was to offer food and drinks brought to the viewers by black-clad servers.
The Alamo Drafthouse caught on quickly, and soon change ...
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- Christmas In Austin, Texas
By: Dane Smith | - Like most towns during the holiday season, Austin brings out their festive lights. However, there are two areas in town known for displaying an awesome array of lights- 37th Street, and the Trail of Lights in Zilker Park.
Starting back in the early 80s, neighbors on 37th Street in Hyde Park came together to create a completely unique Christmas light experience that is creative, wacky, and fun- what today would be deemed as, "Keeping Austin Weird." Resident Jamie Lipman began ...
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- Hyde Park: An Austin Original
By: Dane Smith | - Imagine a neighborhood of adorable medium houses seated comfortably on shady streets lined with trees. But then splash a rainbow across the entire area. That could get you close to what the Hyde Park neighborhood in central Austin is like. This old part of town has a lot of history, and was one of Austin's first developments north of the Capitol. Many of the houses are over fifty years old, but are lovingly cared for by tenants and successive owners, often with a heavy dose of their personality ...
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- Evaluating The Different Options Available For Downtown Austin Condos
By: Escapeso Austin Real Estate | - Downtown Austin is growing faster than ever. Well, maybe not ever, but more than in the last 14 years I have lived here. The city council and the community in gereral is pushing for growing the downtown into a live-work area with high density, shops downstairs, and living upstairs. The term is "multi-use" and it is pretty much pretty much the montra for Austin real estate. There are 10+ condo projects going up in the next couple years that cater to the different appeals of living in downtown ...
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