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Austin unaffordability: How to fight your rising property values

Austin unaffordability: How to fight your rising property values

How do property appraisers determine your home's value? What can you do to build a strong case if you think they're wrong?

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Austin unaffordability: The good, the bad and the ugly for homeowners

For all the good that comes with Austin's growth, there is an equal amount of worry. Demand makes property values rise, which is good for your investment, but it also makes property taxes go up and up.

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Austin unaffordability: The good and bad for local businesses

Eighty-five percent of business owners in Central Texas say Austin has an affordability crisis. These are real issues, likely facing some of your favorite iconic Austin restaurants, retailers and businesses.

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Twin Falls swimmer: 'I think there's something down there.'

A man visiting Austin questions if he felt a body underwater hours before it was recovered.

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Unfinished apartment complex neighbor: "Nobody wants ugly in their neighborhood"

Set to be IO at Tech Ridge, the complex seemed stuck in time. Some windows are broken, walls are unfinished, the plastic wrapping on the outside tattered and blowing with the breeze.

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Abandoned apartment complex gets new owner

KVUE's Erica Proffer reports.

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Inside international fraud rings: How Central Texans become targets

After a Central Texas fraud and money laundering scheme netted millions from victims across the county, investigators are opening their files to the Defenders to help viewers like you avoid getting scammed.

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Defenders: Foreign scammers busted

KVUE Defenders' Erica Proffer reports.

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An inside look at a Central Texas foreign scammer investigation

Recently, a group of foreign criminals were caught running several scams and a money laundering money scheme here in Central Texas that netted millions from hundreds of victims across the country. The Defenders take you there May 16 at 10 p.m.

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Austin woman says homeless living in storage facility ruined her charity items

A representative from a veterans non-profit says they lost thousands of dollars of donated items after urine from homeless people ended up in its storage unit.

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Homeless in storage unit ruin charity items, woman says

KVUE's Mike Rush reports.

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