An Austin Road Guide

Have you ever found yourself on a different road without ever making a turn? If you are an Austin resident, you are no stranger to this phenomenon. Austin in known for “keeping it weird”, and the road names tend to follow in suit. Austin area roads often posses alternate aliases that describe the local culture and history of that particular location. When hearing directions from a local versus looking at a map, Austin can seem like a turned around place. Use this guide to learn the lings for Central Texas area roads with multiple personalities.

6th Street, formerly named Pecan St under Austin’s older naming convention in which east-west streets were named after trees. Historically this street served as the city’s…

Austin is one of the fastest growing cities in the country, and the population is expected to keep increasing over the next decade. The capitol of Texas is home to the University of Texas, and the city is considered one of the music capitals of the world. If you are relocating to Austin, you can make the move easier with portable storage containers.

Portable moving storage containers are portable storage containers that can be delivered to your new home. You can pack them, or you can have movers pack them, and they will be taken to the destination of your choice. You will then have the option of unpacking your belongings at your leisure, phoning the container company for easy pick-up when you are done. You may choose to store the container in your…

A Taste of Texas in a Bottle

Meadows and streams, vibrant wildflowers, rolling hills and a mild climate make the Texas countryside stand out as one of the prettiest areas in the South. These amazing climate features create the perfect environment for prosperous vineyards where grape vines bear fruit to create the unique, prize-winning wine flavors that can only be produced in the heart of Texas. 

Click here for a Texas Wine Guide

Dell Children's Center Benefit

Check out the video below of some of the children that attended our benefit this past Sunday at Nutty Brown Cafe. Thank you to all of the sponsors and people who helped get this off the ground; can't wait for next year! For pics, visit our Facebook page!

Remax Rocks And Rolls For The Kids: MyFoxAUSTIN.com

How to Stage Your Home for the Holidays

Well I can’t believe it’s that time of year again. It seems the older I get, the quicker time flies by. We only have 10 short weeks until Christmas, and with the holiday season upon us, I felt a few holiday staging tips may shed some light on the Staging subject. While doing a Staging consultation yesterday in a gorgeous home in South Austin, I was reminded of how adorable those little pumpkins and sparkly spider decorations can be around Halloween. This house was tastefully decorated throughout complete with a silk and velvet witches hat as a centerpiece on the formal dining table.  

Our homeowner knew the décor would need to come down before getting pictures and the house listed on MLS.…

How to Deal With Fogged Windows in Your Home

Fogged windows are not an uncommon issue in homes – even newer homes, and are something I see routinely inspecting homes and commercial properties in the central Texas area.  There are a number of causes and remedies for the issue but lets start with the basics of how thermal pane windows are made and how they are intended to work.

The panes of glass in a multi-pane window are sealed and separated by a spacer bar that contains desiccant materials to absorb moisture.  By design the spacer allows for small amounts of air movement in and out of the window caused by “solar pumping “- the air expands out of the window with sunlight heating, then contracts back into the window as it is…

"How much do I water my foundation...?" 

As an Austin, Central Texas home inspector one of the most common questions I’m asked by clients and home owners is “how much do I need to water my foundation?” If you are relocating here from outside Texas, especially the central Texas area, foundation watering may be a foreign concept, but much of the soil in the Austin area is what we call expansive clay soil which expands when it gets wet and contracts as it dries. In times of excessive rain and dry periods (such as the record breaking droughts we’ve had), the clay soil can move to such a great extent that the foundations resting above move also – in some cases beyond a tolerable amount. While repair isn’t always required…

Austin City Limits Last Minute Places to Stay

So it’s ACL weekend, you’ve got your passes, you’ve got your sunscreen, you think you’re all set. And then it hits you, no hotel! Or you’re more like me, who just thinks I’ll figure it out when I get there. Well, no matter how you got yourself in this predicament; you can still get out of it. Homeaway.com still has listings available for Austin homes, apartments, condos, and townhomes where you and your buddies can stay for ACL weekend. The best part is, most of the prices are comparable to a nice hotel, and the locations are superb. With the festival being in Zilker Park, whether you choose a 6th Street loft or a SoCo bungalow, you can easily take a cab or even walk to…

Water Restrictions in Your Area

Click below for a guide containing Austin, Round Rock, Pflugerville, Cedar Park, Leander, Georgetown and surrounding areas Drought information. Please note this information is likely to change at any time. As of Sept. 7, 2011, Cedar Park, Round Rock, Kyle and Dripping Springs are in stage 2 while Wimberly is in stage 3. Do your part to conserve water and prevent wildfires. For up-to-date information search #centraltxfires on Twitter and visit Statesman.com

Click here for a downloadable PDF of the Drought Water Restrctions