Essays, letters, and quarterly market notes. Written slowly. Published when there's something worth saying.
The deadline to protest your Travis County appraisal is May 15 or 30 days after TCAD mails your notice, whichever is later. Here is how the process actually works.
Texas school districts must exempt $140,000 of your home's value, Travis County and the City of Austin each take off another 20%, and the filing deadline is April 30. It costs nothing.
A step-by-step walk through the Texas home buying process, from preapproval to funding, with the TREC contract paragraphs, option period rules, and tax districts that catch out-of-state buyers.
Lake Travis is a storage reservoir built to rise and fall. Lake LBJ is held nearly constant. That single difference changes docks, deeds and what waterfront actually buys you.
Unincorporated Hill Country acreage runs on a private well and a septic system, not city utilities. These are the county, TCEQ and groundwater district rules that decide what a tract can support.
