All Forum Posts by: Eric Barnett

Hey everyone Madelyn Miser just got us into the Yukon room. Just tell the hostees you’re with BP

@Scott MacDonald - you should touch base with @David Ferrette who has come to several meet ups and knows his stuff. I believe he will be there tonight as well.

@Jason Perkins

Looks like a lot of attention going around about this.  Unfortunately, I have to handle some last minute matters for my day job and have had to travel out of town, unable to attend tonight.  

I spoke with Madelyn Miser who works with NWNW in sales/marketing and is happy to set something up for us, I have asked her if this is possible for tonight but I would encourage you to ask for her tonight.

@David Ferrette@Doug Watts@Taylor Patterson@Scott Kujak@David Ivy if any of you guys attend tonight do you mind setting some things up and making sure everyone has a great time? Now that it looks like this group is gaining some traction we should start finding a consistent spot and talking to Madelyn about booking a room.

Again, so sorry I can't make this but excited to see a lot of posts and new people interested!

@Jason Perkins

@David Ivy

@Scott MacDonald

@Taylor Patterson

@Doug Watts

Hope you guys can all make it.  

@Aziz Raji I live just South of Austin

Meetup to discuss investing in South Austin and surrounding areas.  We have had new people show up at every meeting and I look forward to having it grow.  As we grow we will build more structure into the meetings so feel free to pitch ideas on how to improve the meetings and if nothing else come have a drink and meet other like minded people. DM me for info, I will have a table set up for us.

5701 W Slaughter Ln D, Austin, TX 78749

Great to meet some new people at the last meetup.  I'll be setting up an event for the next meetup in South/Southwest Austin.  We can discuss a structure that people may like and if they want one or would prefer to network and hear what others are doing.

See everyone that can attend tonight.  Message me if you need anything.

Thanks

@Scott Wilson I couldn't agree more on the schools (I'm biased since my wife teaches in Dripping Springs) but the problem is affordability.  We are in the process of moving to a new home in Buda (Hays County, 20 mins from Dripping Springs) and while we wanted to be in Dripping we couldn't make sense of it.  The taxes are high in the new neighborhoods to the East of Dripping and prices are still 330+ as a minimum (minus the few exceptions).  For that reason we chose to stay in Buda on the NW side where there is a lot of new development including a new High School (under construction) and elementary and middles schools that are ranked well.  Most importantly we found a great home at a very reasonable $119/sq ft that is 5 years old with several upgraded features we couldn't touch in Dripping Springs.  Maybe in the next decline we can scoop something up in Dripping but it didn't seem to make sense at this time.  I can't argue that the area isn't full of potential with very good schools.

I would prefer wired keypad deadbolts the next time over my battery option (909 Kwikset I believe).  I bought high quality rechargeable batteries and haven't had any problems so far, going on 6 months of use.  For an out of state short term rental (AirBnB) I would want wired and something that the cleaning staff could easily change every couple of weeks for security.  I've used a wink hub for lights in my house and thermostat but continually had issues so I won't be incorporating smart home features for a while; I've heard good things about Samsung and Apple products.