Archive for the ‘Cool Places to Live’ Category

Austin, Tx.–Home of the most incredible blending of cutting edge technology, indie films, music, and  (mayhem this past week anyway!) The week of March 18-22 brought over 1800 music performances to eighty stages all around Austin!  Yep, 1800! If you didn’t get to see any of the SXSW music, don’t despair…Direct TV is broadcasting the highlights of most performances beginning [...]

Have you visited historic Gruene, Tx. lately? Do you love antiques and collectibles and hidden little towns that just take your breath away? Well, if you haven’t been to this charming little hill country town located on the beautiful Guadalupe River, hop in the car for a trip back in time to this delightful [...]

The Cactus Cafe located in the student union at the University of Texas is a sparkling diamond in Austin’s crown as the “Live Music Capital of the World”!  This month, the Cactus is celebrating its 30th Anniversary!   If you haven’t been there yet, you are missing out on a venue which feels more like a [...]

Happy New Year to all from Cool Houses Austin!  If you are like most of us, you are making those New Year’s resolutions to get your metabolism up and burning off those Christmas calories!  Did you know that one hour of walking briskly burns 170 calories which is the same as low impact aerobics? Now I don’t [...]

The 2008 Armadillo Christmas Bazaar is under way in downtown Austin at the Austin Convention Center…If you love live music and you love to shop, then whatever you do, get yourself downtown and don’t miss this terrific event! It runs from Dec. 12-24th!  For a mere $3 during the day and $6 on evenings and week-ends, [...]

Okay out there all you first time home buyers..2009 is going to be your year!  It will be the year that you bought the best house imaginable at the best possible price and for an incredible interest rate that you wisely locked in for thirty years!  You worked on your credit score and got it [...]

Here at Cool Houses Austin, we recently enrolled in an Eco-Broker course taught in Austin and are so excited to share some of the information with our readers.  Did you know that  you can install some of these home improvements rather easily,  save money on your utility bills and get reimbursed from your local utility company to [...]

Our lovely Austin hits the Top 10 List again!  This time it is named number 2 Hot Spot for Top Travel Picks for 2009 in a survey by Sherman Travel.  Nestled right between No. 1 Tasmania and No. 3 Cappadocia, Turkey, Austin was only one of the two U.S. cities to make the list!  And [...]

Okay, you have heard of hybrid cars but hybrid homes?  And of course, there is no better place to find them than in Austin, Texas!  Our builders are going greeen in a big way here!
From the Austin Statesman  November 9, 2008, Hybrid Homes Becomes Selling Tool, …”In Austin, custom homebuilders like Ray Tonjes are adding energy-saving features [...]

Texas does it again!  Hotjobs at Yahoo just posted the top ten cities to find a job and Houston  6,768 Jobs and Dallas  6,273 Jobs made the list of the largest metropolitan areas…Both have considerably more population than Central Texas’ Austin which currntly posts 1,824 Jobs.  However, both of the other metro areas outflank us [...]


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I'm Vicki E. Phillips and I am a licensed real estate broker in both Texas and Florida. I am also a certified “EcoBroker” which means that I care very much about sustainability and green living!