May 2008 – Braxton in Austin

Spam can be funny

I got into the office a little late this morning. I was feeling a little down since I was hungover and was out later than I should have been last night. I was thinking to myself, “I feel like crap right now,” and then I go to check my email and this is what i […]

Home featured on KVUE News

One of my client’s home was shown on KVUE last night. I represented him when buying the house. Patrick Easter, who you will see in the clip is the developer who built my client’s home and is placing another one next to it. The story covers manufactured homes and the benefits they can provide. One […]

Optimizing Rails Server Performance on Dreamhost

Lately, I have been working on some SEO for my Austin Real Estate site. Slowly but surely my traffic has been increasing so I figured it was time for me to solve some long standing issues before my site gets too busy. It is hosted on Dreamhost and has been pretty slow. I built the […]

Waller Creek Survey

I attended the City’s Waller Creek Workshop recently and was very impressed with the ideas they had as well as changes they had implemented due to citizen feedback. They are continuing to take feedback through their online survey until the end of this month. I urge each of you to give your input. The Waller […]

More on the City Council Point-of-Sale Ordinance

I submitted an email to the Mayor recently through ABOR’s Take Action website. I received a form-letter response back. It points out a few directions that the city council gave to the task force that will be formulating the recommendations regarding the ordinance. If these directions are followed, then the ordinance could actually be very […]

Villa Muse Project is Cancelled

Villa Muse, the large entertainment project, announced that it will look to build elsewhere instead of in East Austin. They had been in discussions with the city to be removed from Austin’s ETJ but Austin ultimately decided against doing this. Being out of the ETJ would have prevented Austin from annexing the land in the […]