Did you know that July 1st is International Chicken Wing Day? If you said no, me neither, but now that I do I think that its rather cool! Furthermore, it gives me a reason to defy my no fried food diet and eat all of Austin's best chicken wings. i decided in celebration of this new holiday that I would go around and find the best chicken in Austin. I came up... [Read more...]

Have you finished your "spring" cleaning? Summer is only days away so its time to make sure that your apartment is clean and fresh. If your like me spring cleaning is not something that you get excited for, but it is something that is often seen as necessary.  By using natural green cleaning tips, house cleaning or the dreaded spring cleaning is made much simpler... [Read more...]

We decided to keep the pet loving vibrations happening here at The Remington Apartments. Last week we urged you to adopt a pet from a local rescue shelter, and we'd waive half pet fee. Let's do something like that again. But this time, we'll bring the dogs to you. Plus we're going to celebrate all our canine friends who make The Remington apartment community... [Read more...]

We've mentioned before about how much we love pets here at the Remington. We know that having an animal friend is actually good for your physical and mental health. Next week, we're going to show just how much we love animals and how much we support pet ownership. You see, next week (August 15 - 21) is National Homeless Animals Week, which culminates... [Read more...]

Hey Remington folk, we have some good news and some, well, not bad news... it's just a heads up. First the heads up: Tomorrow, June 10, the office here at the Remington will close a bit early, at 4:30pm. See, it's the night of the Austin Apartment Association annual awards, and we'd like some time to change into our ball gowns and tiaras before heading... [Read more...]

Sometimes we all have to put in some extra time at work. But too much of that can have a bad effect on your health. Medical science has the data to prove it. A recent article on WebMD describes a study in the UK that followed British civil servants for about ten years. The subjects who worked three or more hours of overtime a day showed a 60%... [Read more...]

We're going to call this a suggestion on how to clean out your closet. But it's really just a modest attempt to alert you to a cool organization that has an unusual way of making the world a better place. It's Girls Rock Camp Austin, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering girls and women of all backgrounds and abilities through musical education... [Read more...]

We wish to congratulate everyone on making through one of the longer stretches in the American calendar without a three-day weekend. We hope you’ll be able to spend some down time the next few days doing something you like, even if it’s just remaining horizontal on the sofa. But we invite you to take a moment this weekend to think about the ... [Read more...]

It's a long weekend, the first we've had in a while. And it's the unofficial start to summer. Which means... It's time to break out the sunscreen. You'll need it as you lounge by the pool here at the Remington. And when you're picking out some sunscreen, we all know that the higher the SPF rating, the better. Right? Wrong. It's not quite that... [Read more...]

Coffee has become so complicated. There was a day when the biggest choice you had to make was regular or decaf. Now you have dark roasts, light roasts, African, Asian, blends, cappuccinos, Americanos and delicious cold, creamy concoctions. And what happened to calling them small, medium and large? Now it's Venetto and Grosso, or something like that...... [Read more...]

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