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  1. On 2/29/2024 at 4:20 PM, Ghost of LL said:

    It's just Lost Creek that is being put to a vote.  It's the result of a very specific piece of legislation passed last year by the 88th Legislature, following years of lobbying by a handful of residents.  Perhaps it won't surprise you to learn that there are a few lobbyists who live in Lost Creek.

    Anyway, it's just a majority of votes cast needed for disannexation.  That's why the City's move here is so puzzling.  In a low-turnout election, it's going to be the highly motivated people who carry the day.  And on this issue, that's clearly the pro-disannexation people.

    Madeline Connor is going to get the last laugh. 

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  2. 19 minutes ago, TKthunder2 said:

    I’m in Austin. My area is under a “Limited Taxation District” which is like an ETJ. I have to comply with building regulations (I recently found out) but I pay no taxes. I added on to my home and the City of Austin is claiming I needed a City Build permit. I had one from Travis but not the City and they are up my ass on a bunch of bullshit (including telling me I have to install a fire suppression sprinkler system). The only city service I have is Austin Water. The question I’m trying to figure out is if I dig my own well and have no City services, could I leave the LTD or am I proper fucked.

    Probably should have gone in the Help forum but whatever.

    How'd they find out? All my neighbors in that area always said not to involve the city and they wouldn't snitch on each other. 

     

  3. On 2/21/2024 at 10:42 PM, tx 3 putt said:

    out of curiosity, anyone know what it takes to be in a suite ? (they've had it for many many years) 

    I asked this year … I was told by LHF you have to have $1MM of lifetime donations to even get on a waiting list for a suite currently. 

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  4. We hit Atchafalaya for brunch on the way out of town and … was disappointed. I had high expectations and it didn’t live up to them. 
     

    It started strong with the fried green tomatoes app (it comes with three but asked for them to plate it with 4 since there were four of us and they obliged). That was a very good rendition, but that was the high point. 
     

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    I had the breakfast risotto - it was pretty much a jambalaya made with boudin (I know it wasn’t actually that, but that’s the flavor notes it hit) with a poached egg and pork belly. It was … fine. Good but not great - and needed liberal helpings of crystal hot sauce. I also ordered a biscuit on the side, and it was dry. Came with jam but not butter. It was $5 and not worth fifty cents in my opinion - I didn’t even finish half of it. 
     

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    My sister had the shrimp and grits - this was probably the best dish at our table but it’s not the best shrimp and grits to be had in NOLA like some people say. My brother had the duck hash and it was good, and my mom enjoyed her crab cake Benedict. But we all agreed it was several steps below the other places we hit this weekend.
     

    Oh well - even a step down was still a pretty darn good meal,  the weather was fantastic all weekend, and can’t knock spending time with my mom  in a city I love (she’s in good health, but 70s are still 70s and you don’t take anything for granted). 
     

    I’m back in Austin now and already counting down the weeks until I’m back for Jazz Fest.  
     

     

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  5. I’ve got 4 tickets (2 in 109 and 2 in L3) and one parking pass to the game tonight and I’m out of town. If anyone wants them send me a PM and I can transfer electronically. 
     

    EDIT: Tix are gone, hook ‘em!

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  6. 7 hours ago, TreatyOak said:

    So my business partner and I sold our short term rental property in Austin. We bought it in 2021. Did awesome for the first year and half, then rentals fell way down. Place had a perfect location just off of the best part of South Congress. We would be booked by remote workers for a month at a time.
     

    Then in 2023, whammo, nada. We had exemplary ratings (we included local foods for free and a restaurant gift card cause we’re awesome) but the market changed and after appearing on page 1 of a search for a South Congress location, we fell to page 7,  as the market flooded with new properties. We sold at a profit (thank heavens) but we were starting to look at a serious loss as rentals had dwindled to key Austin weekends. 
     

    Anyone else experience the same? Was it due to people pulling their properties off the sales market and converting them to STRs? Curious to hear your views. 

    Just curious, and no judgment - did you sell to another investor, or to someone who plans to use it as a full time residence?

  7. 2 hours ago, Nope said:

    I’m thinking about this new EA CFB game that’s supposed to be coming out. Obviously they are keeping the selection under wraps right now as far as who is on the cover, but is there any returning player that would have a better case than Quinn?

    But I’m also forgetting how this works, do they usually go with returning players or someone being drafted?

    In the past it was a player who had gone pro because you couldn’t pay the players for their NIL when the game was previously made.  Now you can. So there’s no direct precedent. 

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  8. 7 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

    It’s weird though because going to high school in the 1990’s and college/law school in the 2000’s  now everything from that era is what the 18-25 demographic is into. We can tap into that. Also be a place for students to showcase their art and creativity. They have to see a message board as a cool place to throw out their ideas and shit. Our we could just blackmail a few of the popular ones and make them use surly. Just kidding. But I’m not kidding when I say they are into 80-90’s shit. Early 2000’s. We can be that spot for them. 

    Wait. You’re a lawyer? 

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    21 minutes ago, ChickenNuggets said:

    Yeah, kinda sucks it's guaranteed... at least it's just 7 years in case shit hits the fan... 

    I'm sure the negotiation went: Steve, we'll pay you $10mil a year for 7 years, with X% buy-out. Steve's agent comes back and says, Sark Enterprises demands $12 mil a year with those buyout terms. And UT comes back and says, let's just kill the buyout and stick with the $10mil.

     

    2 hours ago, David Dennison said:

    I mean, if it is fully guaranteed, we sure did clown on aggy for Jimbo's deal.

     

    2 hours ago, Tex-19 said:

    So is it all fully guaranteed? If so, we just gave him a fucking Jimbo contract...

     

    5 hours ago, TonyTexas said:

    I don’t see any mention of a buyout for either side. 

     

    This is just the bullet points from BoR agenda, not actual employment contract.

    There is no way to know any of the terms, other than annual salary/incentives from the BoR agenda. Anything about whether it is fully guaranteed or not, what the buyout is, etc. is contained in the actual contract, not the BoR agenda. And since this is an extension, the most likely thing is that it is literally that - extending the prior contract and amending the annual compensation.

    Just wait, the actual contract extension will come out at some point and all your caterwauling will likely be for naught. 

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  10. 18 minutes ago, Tylerocks said:

    My old job brought in Rudy's twice over the last few months.

    It was barely edible.

    Everything sucked...like horribad.

    And that's why it's your old job. 

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    1 hour ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    Wonder where visiting fans will be seated? I think I read where it's a SEC rule that they have to have a lower section allotment or something of that nature?

    The released the 2024 Seating Chart earlier this week. It's available here or see the screenshot below.

    The have spread out the visitors more than last year (they were mostly in 119-122 last season. It also seems like there is more - the visitors are in Sections 1, 32, 131, 132 this year (in addition to the tops of 103, 104, 106, 107, and 119).

    My guess is that most will be in the 32/131/132 sections, and the 103-119 visitor sections will mostly be "single game tickets" for the visitors who don't sell out their allotments. 

     

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  12. You shouldn't need a court order of any kind to change a custodian on a UTMA. However, banks can be a-holes and make you do things without any basis in law because that's just "their way" of doing things. 

    But if you did need a court order, the decedent who was the owner of the UTMA can have probate opened and get an administrator of the estate appointed, and the bank would have to talk to the administrator because legally they are the owner and any acts they take are acts of the owner. 

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  13. 3 hours ago, PantsTent said:

    ** they will go to fans willing to pay full seat gift amount.

    A lot of them were apparently in Tier 4 - which don't require seat deposits - think upper most rows of the west side upper deck. I'm sure there were some good ones, too. 

  14. 40 minutes ago, Zone Read said:

    CDC said at the Town Hall this evening that individual game ticket prices went down so that the entire 7 game home season would cost the same as last year's 6 home game season.  My price for LHF gift and game tickets are exactly the same as last year.

    YMMV, mine are like $50 more per seat. Not a huge deal. 

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