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Hill Country Retreat continues to be San Antonio's number one retirement community. Comprised of free-standing homes, the highly popular gated community for seniors as young as 55, now has close to 600 happy homeowners. With indoor and outdoor swimming Read More...
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The first event I attended at the Alamodome was a boxing card featuring Julio Cesar Chavez and Pernell Whitaker in 1993, not long after the then mega-structure had opened. Seated in an upper balcony in a seat that at the time cost as much as a cheap season Read More...
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As you might expect, there is no simple answer when deciding whether or not to refinance a home loan. When I did my last refinance, it was on an investment property in San Antonio, on which I was able to lower my monthly payment $352 per month. This was Read More...
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A few months ago my wife decided we needed a new roof. My thoughts were that we should wait for a hail storm and have the insurance company pay for the roof. But this argument didn't get too far, since the last significant hail storm in San Antonio, Read More...
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In my 34 years as a San Antonio, TX realtor, I've seen many market changes and the effects of resulting strategies that builders, sellers and buyers took to predict how to go about buying or selling a home in whatever market conditions prevailed at Read More...
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About this time each year, my wife and I make a trip to Six Flags Fiesta Texas to renew our season passes. I don't really know how many visits we'll make to our favorite San Antonio attraction through the summer months, but at around $50 each Read More...
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I'm a big fan of Diners, Drive-ins and Dives on the Food Channel. My wife and I have visited one of the San Antonio restaurants to which host Guy Fieri had given rave reviews and found it to be a good, but not great place to eat. When I saw the segment Read More...
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When someone asks me if interest rates are going up or down, my typical response is, "it depends." There are many issues which I've learned over my 34 years as a San Antonio real estate agent that are totally unpredictable and often beyond Read More...
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I don’t care much about statistics. For one reason: they only reflect what has happened in the past. Sure, there are economists and others who will project what will happen tomorrow based on what happened yesterday. But they are only moderately Read More...
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Picture this: it's 4:30 A.M., there's a forecast of heavy rain throughout the San Antonio area, and there's an open-air breakfast being offered to you, free-of-charge at a location that's probably 20 miles or more from where you reside. Read More...
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I'm not sure if it will come to fruition, but if San Antonio mayor Julian Castro's prediction of 20,000 new jobs for San Antonio in 2010 does happen, it would surely give a boost to the San Antonio real estate market, which is already doing much Read More...
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In an effort to stimulate the sagging economy, congress has passed The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Perhaps the major provision of the act is a tax credit for as much as $8,000 to first-time homebuyers, or buyers who have not purchased Read More...
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Picture a building site with a terraced orientation, affording you an unobstructed panoramic view of distant hills or city lights from your one-acre or larger building site. And when the conditions are right, see yourself viewing some of Texas' most Read More...
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Everyone has an opinion on what to do to make a home sell better, and more importantly, at a price that will make a seller happy. My opinion, and observation in over 32 years of selling homes in San Antonio, TX is that in order to recoup the most on your Read More...
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It's getting to be old hat with various surveys conducted by a plethora of sources throughout the country. Once again, San Antonio has been ranked favorably as a great place to live. Although all sources of these polls are important, it's especially Read More...
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