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Perspective

Mike Tyson has dropped a few jewels of wisdom on us over the years.  One of his lesser-known quotes came when he pointed at his head and said “In here it’s a bad neighborhood, and you’re always by yourself.” Those words ring so true in so many ways.  While I’ve

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October 2023 Market Update

https://youtu.be/Ui6uHuWZJCY Hey, it’s time for your market update with Mike here at Linnemann Realty, talking about our rental market. and reaching out to all our property owners who have their properties in our care. We’ve got a growing rent list right now. It is not anything unusual; it happens from

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Full Circle

Full Circle Today’s writing gets personal, and requires a bit of backstory, so please bear with me and follow along.  I promise you it’s worth it. I moved to Central Texas in 1992.  A college graduate from UT, I had just washed out of my corporate Fortune 500 job and

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The Build:  The Final Chapter

It was in 2019 that we began this project.  We spent a lot of time in planning, engineering, and designing, so most of 2019 was paperwork, but the construction began in 2020.  At that time I started this blog series, “The Build”, wherein I set out to document the entire

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The Build, Part IV: Slab

In the last entry we covered civil, and truly only scratched the surface (pun intended). Since that writing, we finished all the underground utility work and passed the city inspections with flying colors. The power pole has been set and connected by Oncor so we have electric service as needed.

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The Build, Part III: The Civil

It’s been a whole minute since my last entry, and that’s primarily due to being locked in the slow, agonizing process of waiting. There’s a lot of that in projects like this. Planning a multi-story building that requires multiple engineers, an architect, a designer, a lender, your local government, and

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The Build, Part II

In the first chapter, we discussed planning and assembling the team. Now we can move on to figuring out how to pay for it. Even with the largest commercial projects, you always begin with a “projected” budget. Or, what most folks would call a guess. No matter how vague, this

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Let’s Build Something Cool

“Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.” – Mike Tyson There’s so much wisdom in that one statement, and it rings true in so many fields. Most commercial construction ventures are painstakingly planned out, from site location down to the most minute details. And yet, invariably,

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This Show Must Go On

If you know me then you know I’m a huge supporter of our Vive Les Arts Community Theatre. I’ve been on and off the board for years and still volunteer for almost every show. Beyond entertainment, it brings an entirely unique educational experience for both kids and adults and it

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To the Moon: A Love Story

You can pretty much love anything in this world:  other people, food, surfing, a pair of shoes, you name it.  The anthropomorphic nature of our species makes it common to love objects, infusing them with human traits and characteristics to the point where we imagine that this “being” is actually

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