Hi all,I'm wondering if there are mapping tools out there that easily allow the ability to highlight areas or neighborhoods for your own tracking purposes? I'm in the process of learning what are good neighborhoods an...

Tax incentives approved for the Samsung plant in this North East Austin Suburb.  If folks are interested in identifying the 'path of progress' this certainly looks promising.  Hopefully Samsung makes an official annou...

I am learning about neighborhood farming, but I am a bit confused about how it generally works. 1. How big of a farm do agents usually start out with? 100 houses? 500? 1000?2. What forms of contact do they make? Maile...

This should be an interesting development to watch play out. Looks like the military is putting serious faith in Austin as a tech incubator. Or maybe they're just tired of winters in DC :-)"Military leaders have descr...

So I was supposed to close the sale of a property this morning when the buyers mortgage company suddenly wanted to know if the property was a "flip".  After biting my tongue to avoid the stream of profanities I wanted...

I never knew that Tenants can pay their rent online to make the landlord's life easier. But which websites are good? Do they kill you with fees in using their services? And what if you have an older tenant who isn't c...

Should I get an efax account. Or just a regular fax machine? Or both? Could you reccomend an online fax site?

This just out:

12/24/08

RBS WorldPay Data Breach Hits 1.5 Million

Twenty years of payment processing history as well as social security numbers are compromised.

December 24, 2008
By Richard Adhikari: More storie...

Hi everyone,I recently purchased my second property which is a multi family home. As I’m sitting here thinking I’m not so sure how to go about tracking rents paid as well as security deposits made by tenants. When I o...

Wow, did the guys over at Mobilehomeuniversity.com screw up. I am so irritated at this. I ordered their home study course the beginning of April and at the time of writing this (May 9th), I have still not received ...