Stunning custom home on 2+ acres just 13 miles from downtown Austin, with impeccable attention to detail throughout! Come home to a wrap-around front porch, reclaimed wooden doors, stained concrete floors throughout entire first story, and engineered hardwood floors throughout the second floor. Fantastic floor plan with downstairs master suite, flex bedroom/study, living room with 18-foot ceiling and stone fireplace, and 400+ SF media room with wet/wine bar and separate entrance. Upstairs you’ll find a guest suite with full bath, and sitting/office area open to the downstairs living room, and two additional bedrooms that share a jack-and-jill bath.

Kitchen includes commercial range, stainless appliances, granite counters, custom stone backsplash, roll-out cabinet storage, large pantry, and island with separate prep sink! Bright, open breakfast nook with custom wood ceiling, picture windows overlooking your acreage, and access to expansive deck with covered outdoor dining area.

Tranquil master suite includes private sitting area that opens to the 750+ s.f. rear deck, master spa with travertine shower and seamless glass enclosure, his and her vanities, a jetted garden tub, and custom walk-in master closet.

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Real-Estate Agents are always on the move, but have long been tethered to the office due to the nature of the paper-reliant Industry. In the past, after showing a home to clients, it was necessary to travel all the way back to the office where a contract was drafted, printed and signed. This inconvenient fact of the business isn’t fun for the client, and frankly, wasn’t fun for us either!

Today’s customers expect – and deserve – to have instant assistance and ease of mind, to be able to act quickly in order to ensure that the home they’ve fallen in love with doesn’t slip away.

When the iPad was released, The GoodLife Team viewed this innovative new mobile platform as an opportunity to provide better, faster service for our clients. The Executive Team began running our daily business on the iPad and started tinkering with and trying out different Apps. In time they acquired a set of tools that enabled The GoodLife Team to deliver exceptional customer service. With the iPad, our Agents can easily get detailed information about homes while out with their clients, calculate mortgage payments on site, write contracts without driving back to the office and give customers the ability to electronically sign and submit them using the touch of a finger. What’s not to love? In 2011, the Executive Team told the GoodLife Team members to prepare for a move to full-time use of the Apple iPad.

The GoodLife Team adopted the iPad into our essential business practices because it made sense for our customers and for our Team. Little did we know that The GoodLife Team would be the first to organization in the Real Estate Industry to become 100% iPad users. Through our good friends at the national real estate news organization, Inman News, Apple heard about what we were doing with our iPads. Because they were interested in learning how we use their product to better serve our customers, they sent a video crew to Austin, TX and spent a few days documenting our practices. After learning about us, Apple recognized the The GoodLife Team as Power Users of the iPad!

So what does this mean, to you, our customer?

What we think it means is that in a traditional, paper-bound industry such as real estate, there is now a better way to do business. The iPad makes it possible for faster, better experiences and helps you buy the home you love, hassle-free.

Check out how The GoodLife Team utilizes the Apple iPad to your benefit here! >>

Author | Garry Wise
Garry has both lived in and sold hundreds of homes in the Travis Heights area, as well as owns investment property in Travis Heights. You can contact him here.

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What are you thankful for? Leave us a comment!