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HOT Tips for Selling A Home in a Cooler Market
In: Cool Places to Live| Living in the Hill Country| Real Estate News| Texas Lifestyles| Uncategorized
23 Sep 2009Everyone knows that home prices have declined this past year (yes, even here in Austin and the surrounding Hill Country). So what do you do if you are trying to sell a home in a “buyer’s” market? Here are a few tips for you sellers out there:
1. The First Impression: The rule is that the [...]
Recently we noticed an upsurge in people who are choosing to rent rather than buy in our Austin metro area. Cool Houses Austin has a new feature where we can now search for apartments for our clients as well as houses to rent.
We’re really excited about the new feature. Rents are very reasonable in Austin [...]
Austin Named Community Wildlife Habitat
In: Cool Places to Live| Living in the Hill Country| Real Estate News| Texas Lifestyles
29 Mar 2009Once again, the city of Austin is selected for top honors! On March 12th, Mayor Bill Wynn and the city council accepted the National Wildlife Federations’ offiicial certification as a Community Wildlife Habitat. This makes Austin the first Texas city and the largest metropolitan city in the nation to be so honored! The main focus [...]
Austin Named Community Wildlife Habitat
In: Cool Places to Live| Hill Country Happenings| Living Green| Living in the Hill Country| Real Estate News| Texas Lifestyles| Texas Ranch Living| Uncategorized
29 Mar 2009Once again, the city of Austin is honored! On March 12th, Mayor Bill Wynn and the city council accepted the National Wildlife Federations’ offiicial certification as a Community Wildlife Habitat. This makes Austin the first Texas city and the largest metropolitan city in the nation to be so honored! The main focus of the National [...]
Best Places For Business and Careers 2009
In: Cool Places to Live| Real Estate News| Texas Lifestyles| Uncategorized
29 Mar 2009If you are tired of the doom and gloom and ready to relocate, check out Austin, Tx. We were just named to the11th Annual Forbes magazine Top Ten Best Places For Business and Careers! Austin hit a home run by a climbing from No. 47 in last year’s poll to No. 8 this year! With a population [...]
Mortgage Rates Fall to Lowest since 1971!
31 Dec 2008What a great time to buy a home in Austin and the Hill Country! Mortgage rates on 30 year fixed-rates are at the lowest they have been since 1971! This was the ninth consecutive week for a drop!
Interest rates on the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage dropped to an average of 5.10 percent for the week ending [...]
NOW is The Perfect Time For First Time Home Buyers!!
In: Cool Places to Live| Living in the Hill Country| Real Estate News| Texas Lifestyles
10 Dec 2008Okay 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 [...]
Save $$ on Your Heating Bills This Winter!
In: Cool Places to Live| Living in the Hill Country| Real Estate News| Texas Lifestyles
4 Dec 2008Here 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 [...]
Hybrid Homes are on the rise in Austin!
In: Cool Places to Live| Living in the Hill Country| Real Estate News| Texas Lifestyles| Uncategorized
9 Nov 2008Okay, 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 [...]
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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!
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