Oct 24, 2013

Aug 21, 2013

As many of you know, the last year has not been the easiest for our family. Today (8/21/2013) is Greyson’s first birthday.  A first birthday is always a celebration but for me, Greyson’s is something that I really did not expect to be able to celebrate.  What started off as the hardest 107 days of my life (and certainly Greyson’s) has turned...

Aug 16, 2013

I have been working on learning to fly this summer.  I have studied and studied, taken tests and physicals, and now finally I am getting to the part where I actually get to sit in a plane and learn to fly.  I guess this is how they weed people out.  Do all the bad stuff first, then we can have some fun and teach you to fly.  Kind of like what I assume...

Aug 14, 2013

From time to time I find myself in a situation where doing what is right is not always the first thing that comes to mind.  For example, yesterday I was playing with my kids, and my three-year-old Caroline kicked me in the head so hard that I saw stars.  It really, really hurt.  As the celestial bodies faded away I realized that Caroline had no idea how hard...

Jul 24, 2013

Are you tired of your landlord raising rent?  I bet it happens every year about this time.  Rents keep going up, year after year.  The only two ways to get a handle on the rent control is to move into a rent controlled building, or to buy a house and take control of the rent.  Rent control is easy to obtain, you just have to own the house you live in.  Let...

Jul 22, 2013

After a lot of positive response from my post last week The tortoise wins every time I decided to see what other theories we could test out.  My business partner Stephen Smith suggested we look at something simple like a $100,000 property purchased every year for ten years.  At first I thought that this would cost more money than my slow and steady approach...

Jul 22, 2013

About once a week I see a new post about which cameras REALTORS should buy.  Heck I have written them myself, check out Top 4 Cameras for REALTORS.  But really, you don’t need these cameras to get a great shot.  The only camera you really need is your iPHONE.  Camera technology has come a long way since the early days of digital camera.  I had one for...

Jul 22, 2013

Do you ever get a case of the “want-to’s”?  It happens to me every summer about this point.  ”I want to go to the beach”.  ”I want to play in the pool all day”.  ”I want to win the lottery and never have to go back to work”.  Do you get those?  I get those just about every day.  It is so nice how we...

Jul 17, 2013

So by now readers know that I want to fly.  I want to do a lot of things.  Most of my “i want to’s” are shelved for a while or forever.  I dream up some crazy idea, talk it over with a few friends and then forget about it completely and move on to the next idea.  I bet there are more than a few people like me in the world.  But dreaming...

Jul 15, 2013

I love my iPHONE 5. Ok not really love, it is great and all, but love should be reserved for family. So I really, really like my iPHONE 5. It does a lot for me, but the best part is, it takes photos and video. iPHONE photography is a whole class of photography to itself. And it is so cool, well all but the video taken in portrait and not landscape. They actually...

Jul 15, 2013

Every time I read the story of the tortoise and the hare, the tortoise wins. Every time. I mean duh, it is a book. Books end the same way every time. But this applies to more than just this books. In life most good things come to those who wait. Not waiting around and doing nothing, but purposefully taking small steps everyday to achieve an amazing end result....

Jul 13, 2013

Town home style condo in prestigious Austin zip code with hill country views. This 3/2 condo has the benefits of single family living like a 2 car garage and fenced back yard. The low $40/month HOA covers front and rear yard maintenance as well as the common areas. High energy efficiency features like 12 SEER, Trane, HVAC and R-34 insulation in the attic keep...