CREW Network: Membership Advantages
The end of the calendar year is always the most expensive time of the year for me, both personally and professionally. Year end brings us back-to-back holidays, gifts for family, friends and clients, parties and get-togethers (never empty-handed), and then there’s the dues and membership renewals that really add up to a lot of moolah. As we make our list of new year resolutions, and plans for the year ahead, one of the tasks I try to repeat is a recap of the previous year’s expenses and...
Read MoreTexas Water Development Board – Work Session Summary
From the desk of Buddy Garcia, Modern Stewardship Buddy provided a summary of the discussion from the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) work session that took place October 9, 2013. Best description: “Its a ham and eggs breakfast… Everyone wants to be the chicken, no one wants to be the pig.” The TWDB met for a work session on October 9, 2013 in the SFA Building, Room 170, Austin, Texas. Among five items, agenda item #3-discuss regional water planning prioritization...
Read MoreOffice Condo Conversions 101
CTCAR – August 2013 Luncheon, August 29, 2013 Maggiano’s Domain, Austin, TX By Rosalie G. Keszler, CCIM The Central Texas Commercial Association of Realtors (CTCAR) held its monthly luncheon to educate about office condo conversions. The panel of experts included Robert “Bob” Burton of Winstead, Gay Ruggiano of The Kucera Companies, and Syd Xinos, PE of Doucet & Associates. Burton started the discussion about conversion regulation. The State of Texas has no state-level...
Read MoreMastering Your Memory
CREW Austin’s September 2013 Networking Luncheon By Rosalie G. Keszler, CCIM I have always said that I have a terrible memory. I make use of my iPhone, iPad, notebooks, scraps of paper, other people’s business cards (sorry), all to keep appointments, reminders, notes because I constantly need to ‘refresh’ myself on the details of my busy life. So, when I saw this month’s CREW Austin luncheon topic, “Mastering Your Memory”, I was intrigued. Naturally, I forgot to register, so...
Read MoreIREM – MCE Course: “How to Build a Better Budget”
IREM Austin and Charlie Dismore have teamed up once again to offer an educational and necessary 3-hour MCE course. Don’t make your annual budgeting a bad guessing game — whether you are on the ownership side or overseeing the management of income-producing assets, you know how difficult it is to get budgets ‘right’. Come and learn from an expert and get 3 hours of MCE credit while doing so. July 16, 2013 8:30am to 11:30am Frost Tower, 11th Floor (Suite 1160) $79 with...
Read MoreCREW Austin knows how to network…and FUNdraise.
CREW Austin Recruitment Social & Happy Hour, May 6, 2013 Hot Mama’s Cafe, E 6th Street, East Austin By Rosalie G. Keszler, CCIM Last year at this time, CREW Austin hosted its annual membership recruitment social at an outdoor venue – and staved off a dramatic thunderstorm in the process. This year, the event was held on the patio at Hot Mama’s Café in East Austin, and similarly it seems shrugged off any real storms. It could be the collective energy of such a vivacious group of...
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