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Nokonah News
Nokonah Condos Available
Sunday, March 18, 2007
As of Monday, the following eight condominiums in the exclusive building at 901
W.
Ninth
St. were on the market. Two have contracts pending.
1. For $1.295 million, you can have a two-bedroom, two-bathroom unit
owned by Austin socialite Alice Parrish.
2. Then there's the condo owned by Don Fullerton,
a University of Texas professor, for $1.175 million.
3. UT baseball coach Augie Garrido has a contract
on his $1.15 million unit with one bedroom and 1 1/2 bathrooms.
4. So
do Texas Supreme Court Justice
Don Willett and his wife, Tiffany, who own a two-bedroom,
two-bathroom unit listed for $649,000.
5. Also on the market are condos
owned
by Laura Hutcheson, $600,000
6. Jeffrey Thomas, $359,000;
7. Daniel
Mel Anderson, $250,000; and Jack Campbell, $249,900.
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Late Texas Gov. Ann Richards unit #
306 for sale
Sunday, February 18, 2007
The Nokonah condominium of the late Texas Gov.
Ann Richards has been put on the market and listed as under contract.
The list price for the No. 306 unit at 901 W.
Ninth St. is $1.25 million.
Richards, who died Sept. 13 after a long battle
with esophageal cancer, moved into the Nokonah after the exclusive
condominium project was
completed
in 2001.
Her 2,498-square-foot home has two bedrooms,
two bathrooms and one partial bathroom. It is one of most expensive
condos in the Nokonah, with a
balcony, a walk-in closet and a gourmet kitchen with granite and
marble
countertops.
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Words from Erik Eilerts, HOA Board President,
HOA
Sunday, March 04, 2007 Erik Eilerts, a software engineer, and his wife were the first residents at
the Nokonah when it was finished in 2002. He has been the board president
since 2006. Erik has been able to work on small-scale projects that 'really
impact the life of residents.'
Although they moved to a condo to eliminate a commute, they found they liked
the communal aspect of condo living. "When we lived in a house, we hardly
saw our neighbors. Now if you're bored you can just go to your neighbors'
door and go out for a beer at the Shoal Creek Saloon," Eilerts said.
As
a board member, Eilerts wanted to improve the Nokonah. "There wasn't
anyone with heightened tech experience on the board, and I wanted to do some
tech-type projects . . . to see what I could do to help the building technology-wise." He
digitized the security cameras by replacing VCRs with server computers, and
changed out sodium lamps for compact fluorescent lighting, which he said saves
$10,000 a year in energy costs.
The board's
direct relationship with the building manager, Jennifer Branch, has been instrumental
in its success, Eilerts said. The
original management
company, hired by the developer, "lasted a week," he said.
The
board hired Branch to oversee a small on-site staff including a front desk,
acting as a "filter" for residents' issues. "When the
building manager reports directly to the board and their salary depends on
the board, they tend to be more proactive," said Eilerts.
Although
they belonged to an homeowners association at their old residence in a suburban
subdivision, "being on that kind of board didn't seem very
exciting," he said. "When the HOA is professionally (managed), you
don't have a say in how money is used. It didn't seem like I would have much
influence."
At the Nokonah, "we have a budget, and we actually have things we can
do with it, and do neat projects." They got a Ping-Pong table for the
board's meeting room and added a stairstepper to a newly refurbished gym. "These
are kind of mundane things, but they really impact the life of residents."
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