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Texas Jeff

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  1. Yep. But her house is a single family dwelling on 6100 sq ft of land, at a corner lot, with no neighbors across the street. It's not even legal to park in front of her house. In other parts of Austin, it will soon be legal to divide that parcel into two (with HOME phase 2) and put three homes on each of those smaller lots. Leslie will never have to worry about someone buying the property next to her and redeveloping it, because the HOME rules do not apply to Mueller.
  2. Leslie pre-purchased a second home in Mueller, where these rules do not apply. She's good. When her term ends she can sell her current home for top dollar and move to the protected house, which is not subject to the new rules.
  3. Northeast ECHS, which used to be Reagan HS ... as in John H. Reagan who was in Jefferson Davis' cabinet, which is why it was renamed. The shooting could have been at the high school or Nelson Field, which is across the street, slightly northeast of Northeast.
  4. In a random collision in Austin, the chance of that happening is like 1 in 3.
  5. A few years ago y'all approved a $250 million bond for affordable housting. As part of that bond, Austin is partnering with the Austin Housing Conservancy to buy old apartments. The two paid $35 million for 200 apartments, of which $15 million came from you the taxpayer. That's $175,000 per apartment ... the city part is $75k per apartment. These are old but cheap run down places. According to this article, the current owners raised rents up to 25% on existing residents prior to closing on the deal, as a condition of the sale. From the article: “The city was wanting us to raise the rents and to start charging for utilities and trash pick-up and pet fees,” said Reese, who left Central Properties a couple of months before the sale was finalized. “Which didn’t make any sense to me because they said they were (creating) affordable housing.” One of the buildings was renamed "The Adler" in honor of our former mayor: https://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2023/12/austin-helped-buy-cheap-apartments-with-the-intent-of-keeping-prices-low-instead-rents-went-up/
  6. The ESPN predictor favors Texas over Alabama, should it come to that. Alabama and Texas must win to be in, that should be obvious. Should Texas and Alabama both win, Texas gets a spot in every scenario. In that case, a Michigan loss puts both Texas and Alabama in the playoff. A Michigan win has no effect on Texas, they are in ... but Alabama must then rely on a Florida St loss to get in. There are only two "SEC shutout" cases, and they require wins by Alabama, Michigan, Texas, and Florida St, however these cases represent about a 29% chance of occuring.
  7. Hmmm, here's one website for Airbnb's that has a count of around 14,800: http://insideairbnb.com/austin/ I don't have access to MLS, but Zillow shows about 2700 homes are for sale in the Austin area right now, depending on the size of the map. Also, this article says Austin area will deliver about 23,400 new apartments in 2023, to add to the 45,000 apartments created from 2020-2022: https://austin.urbanize.city/post/austin-apartment-construction-how-many
  8. I was once in a room of 60 folks, some of whom were going to be on the jury. The judge said "If you are a convicted felon, you cannot serve, please come forward and I will dismiss you." No one moved. The judge then said "If you are not certain if you are convicted felon or not, please come forward and we will discuss it." Three people needed to talk to the judge. Two left the room, one had to sit back down.
  9. BTW, to anyone thinking that the HOME initiative will provide housing for a teacher ... no way. Teachers start just over $50k, consider a teacher that is a few years in making $60k. A reasonable rule of thumb says you should spend no more than 30% of your income on housing. That's $18k for our teacher. Combine the mortgage and property tax costs, plus some money for upkeep, and consider you probably need 10% of the price of a home each year to afford it. At the max 30%, your teacher can afford a $180k home. Bump that up to $220k or so, because tax exemptions will help out on the lower end. Show me the developer that is planning to deliver a home for $220k, even at six to a lot ... no way ... it's not going to happen. HOME is not for teachers. The teachers that I know make ends meet either by being married to someone making a lot more money, by being independently wealthy and teaching as a 2nd career, by packing into an older home and sharing expenses, by living in a tiny apartment, or by quitting the teaching profession and getting a higher paying job. The school district is building some housing for them that will help, and I predict that as kids leave the district they will have plenty of spare land to build more housing on, but HOME won't help.
  10. Here's the list of P5 non-conference ranked opponents faced by the current top 8 teams: #11 Texas vs #3 Alabama #6 Ohio St vs #9 Notre Dame #8 Florida St vs #5 LSU Michigan, Washington, Oregon, Georgia vs nobody There aren't enough games between conferences to determine who is better. The committee is just picking the four 12-0 teams this week. If you wanted to pick a weak conference ... well .... the SEC went 0-2 in those top games, both upsets, both by double digits.
  11. I ran every permutation of that selector. Per the ESPN playoff predictor, Texas is in with a Texas win and a Georgia, Michigan, or Florida State loss.
  12. let me sum up the thoughts of those leaving: 1. It’s hot 2. It’s hot 3. It’s hot 4. Like really really hot 5. Plus other stuff
  13. Have you tried going here and entering your info? https://tax-office.traviscountytx.gov/properties/taxes/account-search That should take you to a page for your account, and from there you can see your bill. You can drill down to see how much you are paying for each tax entity. The "Proposed Tax" rate vs "No New Revenue" rate is something the lege threw in there. They want you to know what the rate would have been if the tax authority had not raised the tax they want to collect from last year to this year.
  14. Texas's home schedule this year: Rice, Wyoming, Kansas, BYU, Kansas St, Texas Tech Texas's home schedule next year: OOC warmups Colorado St, UTSA, ULM ... then Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Miss St Add road/neutral site games vs Arkansas, A&M, Michigan, OU, and Vanderbilt Talk about upgrading the game day experience....
  15. Money talks. Should have written that on the tower when they had the chance.
  16. I think we should try this experiment in the Rose Bowl. Who is with me?
  17. It's over in Norman and OU's win means the Big XII championship will feature a 1 or 2 loss team vs a 2 loss team. If Texas wins tonight, they clinch the #1 seed. I think it's possible that this also eliminates K State, but the tiebreaker rules are hard to follow. If Texas and Ok State both win, then it's Texas vs Ok State because Ok State has head to head vs both K-State and OU. If Texas wins but Ok State loses, then there is a possible tie between K State and OU. But OU beat top seed Texas, and Texas beat K State, giving the tiebreaker to OU. I don't see a tiebreaker for K State should Texas win. If my logic is correct, then a Texas win means it will be Texas vs OU or Ok State, depending on the outcome of the Ok State / BYU game.
  18. The city announced a new Homeless Strategy Office to aggregate city efforts around homelessness. After all of the time and treasure the city has sunk into homeless solutions over the past few years, homelessness in Austin doubled between April 2022 and October 2023, from about 2500 to about 5500. Maybe people are becoming homeless because of higher rents ... maybe they are moving here because we offer more. It's hard to tell what is going on, how money is being spent, what the plan is or what impact it is having on the problem -- which is kind of the point of the new office. It feels like we are spending more to make the problem worse.
  19. Only the second night game of the year. Pretty perfect low 50's football weather. Lots of beer if you can afford it, which I think y'all can because the lowest ticket right now is around $200. A Jumbotron that might be audible in Waco. Cannons and livestock and fireworks. Longhorn Band playing the hits you know you love. Cheerleaders and pom girls and a giant Texas flag. Over the top, unnecessary, extra crap dreamed up last summer by folks who overproduce these things who have access to an infinite budget for such stuff. The final Big XII game at DKR. Texas founded the SWC and has been playing in the SWC or the SWC/Big 8 merger since 1914. This is the last one in Austin. A win puts Texas in the Big XII championship game with a chance at a NY6 bowl or possible playoff spot. A win gives Texas their first 11 win season since the dark times began. If you're not excited about this one after beating Iowa St, TCU, Kansas St, BYU and so on ... well .... get it together! If the crowd isn't bringing it like the 1990 UH game, something is wrong with you people. 🙂
  20. As for myself, I want OU. No wacky tie bullshit. 1 loss Texas vs 2 loss OU.
  21. Root for Texas to beat Texas Tech, TCU to beat OU, Iowa St to beat K State, BYU to beat OK State, and West Virginia over Baylor That leaves Texas as the #1 seed to face .... OU or K State or Iowa St or Ok State or West Virginia. A five way tie among three loss teams to face Texas. Try to figure that out, Big XII.
  22. Launch window moved to Saturday, Nov 18th. 20 minute window starting at 7am according to spacex.com. A live webcast starts 35 mins before launch on their website.
  23. They have a new water deluge system, let's see how it works out for them:
  24. SpaceX's Starship launch, second attempt, may happen Friday, Nov 17th. The two-hour launch window opens at 7am central time. https://www.space.com/spacex-faa-license-second-starship-launch The Starship stack, vehicle plus booster, is 397 ft tall. It's 90 ft taller than the tower.
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