Listing Your Home | Buyers Agent | Austin Texas Real Estate
Listing Your Home | Buyers Agent | Austin Texas Real Estate | Alison Shuman (512) 585-4758
Getting Ready To Sell: Gotta Clean it UP! You LOVE your home, and you LIVE in it, you live in it HARD. You have a long list of projects on your to-do list that never seem to get done, but then again, who really has the time? And then one day, sometimes unexpectedly, you realize you're going to … [Read more...]
Austin Real Estate Is A Tough Business to Be In I've always believed that I was a fast learner - quick on the uptake I used to say. Good thing, because "going into real estate" means drinking from the fire hose. The information comes at you fast and furious, relentlessly trying to drown … [Read more...]
It is time to get REAL. One day we wake up and realize, if it is going to happen, I am the one who has to do it. What did YOU want to be when you grew up? I wanted to be in Real Estate, although I didn't know that is what it is called when I was little. When I was little, I just drew pictures of … [Read more...]
What Did Interest Rates Do This Week? The Mortgage Market Report: (Reprinted with permission from Marie Funston, Sr. Mortgage Advisor. Based on Freddie Mac weekly average survey ) 30-yr Fixed – Slightly Higher This Week: 4.92% Last Week: 4.87% 1yr Ago: 6.46% 15-yr Fixed – Slightly … [Read more...]
Northwest Austin's Best Kept Secrets: Spicewood Estates One of Austin's well-kept real estate secrets is a little subdivision in Northwest Austin called Spicewood Estates. This area is small (8 single-block streets) but the oak trees are big and so are the lots (typically, a quarter acre, or about … [Read more...]
If your kids are like mine, they like to get DIRTY. Not a little, a LOT. We LOVE Tanglewood Park in Northwest Austin. I love it because I can take my best patio chair (a swivel rocker!) and a stack of cheap magazines and relax and read and still keep an eye on my kids. My kids love it because … [Read more...]
Have you been thinking about living green? Maybe changing just a few things about your lifestyle to reduce your impact on the planet? East Austin has a really cool development that was honored at this year's Austin Business Journal "Going Green Awards" in January and has been winning design awards … [Read more...]
Years ago, before we moved to Austin, we'd heard that old tired saying, "EVERYTHING is bigger in Texas". Yeah, sure. And then we moved here, unpacked our stuff into our new (BIGGER) house, tossed the moving boxes into the new (BIGGER garage) and then went "out back" into the fabulous oasis now … [Read more...]
