Alan In Austin: January 2008

 The market is heating up again in the Austin/Round Rock area. Still one of the top five markets in the US for real property investment, Austin/Round Rock is waiting for you. Austin Texas Real Estate offers some great opportunities for real property investment. For great deal check out the MLS for Austin/Round Rock Texas.

Check out these New Homes by builder KB in Austin Texas. If I can help you or your clients please feel free to contact me.

LAS VEGAS has so much to offer as a place to vacation or a place to live. The Las Vegs community is filled with great people, schools, and oportunities. Even great Realtors like Renee Burrows an Active Rain Member. Still the fastest growing city in the US, Vegas has a great deal to offer everyone.

                                                                                              Las Vegas Real Estate

Now you can buy a piece of Vegas!

 You can contact me or Renee should you wish to take a closer look.

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I was looking over my stock portfolio about 15 years ago and noticed something. My personal home (Real Estate) was appreciating at a much faster and higher rate than my stocks. I was never a guru in the stock market but I had done my research and had invested my money in some of the top performers. It had been there for 10 years, the same amount of time, I had owned my home. Yet, most of its growth had come from my monthly deposits and it was heading downward again.

I grew to hate the paper that printed the stock results. I kept thinking if this piece of paper were an acre of land, It would be doing much better. So I called up a guy and sold all the paper and bought an acre of land in Phoenix with a nice home on it. It was so much more fun than the paper, so we moved into it. We bought some chickens and a couple of pygmy goats and we had a blast. Four years later we sold it for 75000 dollars more than we paid originally for it.

I am so glad to be rid of the paper. How about you? Got any paper you need to sell, would love to help you turn it into fun and money.

My first piece of real estate was a single wide trailer. It was about a 15 by 65 two bedroom one bath and a stackable washer and dryer unit in the bathroom. It was new in 1972, I bought it in 1984. It was in an aging Mobile home park but it was clean and safe. We bought it for 4500 dollars. We went to work on it and put new carpet in it updated what we could, put a new air conditioning unit on it. Re-coated the roof and did a little landscaping. Brought our first child into this home. We sold it for $6000 dollars a couple of years later.

 How about you? Do you buy what you are selling? I am surprised at how many Realtors there are that do not own a single piece of real estate. Oh yes, I have heard the reasoning: when I get some money saved up I plan to buy a home, when I get my credit cleaned up, I am going to buy a condo...etc,,

I think owning real estate is more important for a Realtor than owning a fancy car. It was very scary at first for my wife and I. I have written checks for properties that did not have renters in them to help us pay the mortgage and that gets scary after 6 months.

If I can be of any encouragement or help, let me know. If you want to invest in a growing market check out Round Rock/Austin area. Where there is a will there is a way.

 A first time homebuyer might enjoy this bargain at 125,000. How about a Condo. You can be right downtown with great views of the City and right in the middle of the action.

Lots of choices in the Austin Area, you can be live like a king or build to suit. You can buy and restore.

Beautifuly homes with Character.

      YOU Can have your Pick.

Examples of Old West Austin Historic District Architecture

1853 Pease Mansion/Greek Revival 1910 Harris House.jpg 1917 Tudor Revival.jpg 1920 Medieval Style 1920 Batts House/ Spanish Colonial.jpg 1923 Stucco Dutch Colonial.jpg 1925 Spanish Colonial.jpg 1929 Colonial Revival.jpg 1932 Brick Colonial Revival.jpg 1932 Multi-family.jpg 1933 Classical Revival.jpg 1933 Craftsman Style.jpg 1933 Monterey Style.jpg 1935 Brick Multi-family.jpg 1935 Colonial Revival.jpg 1935 French Eclectic.jpg 1935 Tudor Revival Duplex.jpg 1936 Colonial Revival.jpg 1937 Brick Bungalow.jpg 1937 Brick Rectangular.jpg 1937 Tudor Revival Duplex.jpg 1937 Tudor Revival.jpg 1938 Colonial Revival.jpg 1938 Georgian Colonial Rev.jpg 1938 Tudor Revival.jpg 1939 Brick Tudor Revival.jpg 1939 Moderne/Bohn House.jpg 1940 Colonial Revival style.jpg 1940 Wood Asymmetrical.jpg 1940 Wood Colonial Revival.jpg 1941 International Style.jpg 1941 Wood Asymmetrical.jpg 1942 Brick Colonial Revival.jpg 1942 International Style.jpg 1942 Ranch Style.jpg 1942 Stone Bungalow.jpg 1947 Brick Asymmetrical.jpg 1948 Wood Asymmetrical.jpg 1949 Ranch Style.jpg

 REMEMBER THE 70's

We have seen lots of candidate mugging recently as the race of the presidency heats up. I am old enough now to recognize the same old rhetoric over and over again. In the 1970's candidates ran promising "Change". They promised to end the War. They promised to help the poor and the middle class. They promised to turn the economy around and create more jobs. They promised to improve the public school system and get more money for teachers. They promised to provide better health care and make it more accessible to the average worker.

Does any of this sound familiar? The war did end in embarrassment for the US. The economy did turn around it tanked and gas prices went from 33 cents a gallon to 1.10. Does anyone remember "Price Freezing" meat shortages replaced with Horse meat? The public school system spent more money and graduated fewer students, Health care went up in cost and employers were forced to choose between carrying health care or employing more workers. The middle class and the poor went to get food stamps together.

I don't know about you but when politicians talk about change, I worry about my wallet and my job. What I would love to hear them talk about is family values. My father in Law used to say "If a man will lie to you he will steal from you."  If you want to lead me and my family, I would like to know that I can trust you. That while I am working you are not plotting to take away what I have worked for. That you will treat the Treasury like I treat my bank account...when the money is gone I stop spending.

I want my president to have a conscience and listen to it. I am tired of filth on TV, sex education at school, overspending by government, broken homes, greedy local municipalities, death tax, abortion, airport strip searches, toll roads, winter breaks (rather than Christmas Holiday), high fuel costs, no energy plan, a do nothing congress.

Well thats just me. It is nearly election time and I just had to vent. Yes, I will be voting and I hope a candidate will talk about what really matters. Anyone can promise anything. At the end of the day the person with integrity of heart will do what they promised because that is the right thing to do.

Austin Downtown Condo's opening up. Check out the Bridges on the Park! These condo's could be great investments or a nice home for people who enjoy the downtown lifestyle. Want to be in the middle of the action, the Bridges will take you there. Read more about he Bridges on the Park in this post by the Austin Business Journal http://www.bridgesonthepark.com/_pdf/Bridges_ABJ1.pdf

Commercial Real Estate acquisitions and ventures continue to play a key role in the Austin Real Estate Market, Many foresee the added jobs and future growth in coming to the Austin area and want to make their move now.

Key center in the picture left is the Frost Bank building which recently sold along with several other properties for more than 1 billion dollars.

<!--(<a href="#" mce_href="#">Map it</a>)--> 314 E Highland Mall Boulevard Austin, TX 78752 Price: $7,500,000 Building Size: 63,784 SF Space Available: 0 SF<!--<li>Number of Floors: <strong>1</strong></li>--> - Small tenant mix with staggered lease expirations provides asset stability - Current lease average as much as 22% below current market rates - Ability to reposition asset as market rates continue to increase - Attractive 5 story brick building - Ample parking spaces - Floor to ceiling tinted windows on 1st floor - Shared conference room for the building

WELCOME TO ROUND ROCK TEXAS!

 Home of some of the brightest, most friendly people anywhere.

ARE YOU HUNGRY? TRY RUDY'S A Texas favorite and a round rock favorite. If you are a rookie to Rudys you get free samples. Great food and great fun.

In the 1800's, Max Aue developed the small community of Leon Springs, in the Texas Hill Country outside of San Antonio. In 1929, Max's son, Rudolph, opened a gas station, garage and grocery store. In 1989, Bar-B-Q was added to the Country Store and Rudy's "Country Store" and Bar-B-Q, was founded. Today, Rudy's "Country Store" and Bar-B-Q, has expanded throughout the southwest with the same original recipes that made Rudy's Leon Springs famous. Rudy's is a meat market that sells cooked meats. Our pits are 100% wood fired with oak, a slower burning wood as opposed to mesquite. Our meats are cooked in a dry spice, not in our "Sause" (we use it on the side). Our unique "Sause" is being shipped throughout the United States (and Texas, of course).

We are growing fast, that means Round Rock is a great place for Real Estate Investment. If I can help you or your clients look closer at Round Rock let me know.

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