Onion Creek · South Austin · 78747
Find out what your neighbors actually paid.
Before you sign an $18,000 roof quote, wouldn't you like to know what three houses on your street paid for theirs? The Onion Creek Price Book collects real numbers from real homes in the neighborhood — roofs, AC systems, windows, fences, paint — so you never negotiate blind again.
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Edition No. 1
The Onion Creek
Price Book
| Roof, comp shingle | what streets paid |
| HVAC, full system | quotes vs. closed |
| Windows, whole house | by house era |
| Fence, cedar privacy | per linear foot |
| Exterior paint | 1-story vs. 2 |
Compiled by neighbors · free forever
Why this exists
Every homeowner in this neighborhood negotiates alone. That's expensive.
Quote roulette
The same 1980s Onion Creek roof gets quoted anywhere from fair to forty-percent-over, depending on how the estimator reads your driveway. Without neighborhood numbers, you can't tell which quote you got.
Search-and-pray
Google serves whoever bought the ad. Nextdoor serves whoever posted last. Neither tells you who actually showed up on time, did clean work, and honored the number they quoted — three doors down from you.
The one-house penalty
Crews charge every house like it's a one-off — because it is. Our homes were built in the same era with the same roofs, fences, and AC tonnage. Bought together, the price drops. Nobody's been organizing that. Now someone is.
What you get
Join the list, get three things.
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The Price Book
Real prices paid for the big-ticket jobs — organized by job type and house era, updated as neighbors contribute. Anonymous by street, never by address.
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The Creek Sheet
A short neighborhood email — what's being quoted, which vendors are earning their spot on the vetted list, and what's coming up. No filler, no daily blast.
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Street Deal alerts
When a crew is already working on your street, you'll hear about it first — with group pricing that only works because your neighbors are in too. How Street Deals work →
Straight answer
"Okay — how do you make money?"
Simple: when the list sends a vendor a job and it closes, the vendor pays us a referral fee out of their marketing budget — the money they'd otherwise hand to Google. Neighbors never pay anything, and the prices in the Price Book keep vendors honest.
We publish that fact everywhere, because the moment a neighborhood list starts hiding how it makes money, it stops being worth trusting.
The mechanics
A neighborhood is a buying group that never organized. Until now.
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Neighbors share numbers
You tell us what you paid (or got quoted). We add it to the Price Book — anonymized — and everyone negotiates smarter.
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Vendors earn the list
One vetted vendor per trade. Five-plus years in business, insured, references from jobs near here — and they keep the spot only while the work stays good.
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The street buys together
When one house books a big job, adjacent houses get the group rate. The crew saves on drive time and sales costs; the savings come back to the street.
Fair questions
Things a sensible neighbor would ask.
Is this really free?
For neighbors, yes — free forever. The Price Book, the Creek Sheet, and Street Deal alerts cost nothing and never will. Vendors fund this, not you.
Who's behind this?
A neighbor who builds websites and email systems for a living and got tired of watching everyone on the street solve the same problems alone. Not an HOA project, not a realtor funnel, not a franchise. More on the About page.
Are you a contractor or a realtor?
Neither. We don't do the work and we don't sell houses. We keep score, vet vendors, and organize the neighborhood's buying power. That independence is the entire point.
Will my address or what I paid be published?
Never your address. Price Book entries are grouped by job type, house era, and general area — "single-story off Pinehurst" is as specific as it gets. Privacy details here.
Do you sell my email?
No. The list is the whole asset — renting it out or selling it would burn the trust that makes any of this work. One email list, run carefully, unsubscribe any time.
The next quote you get shouldn't be a guess.
Join the neighbors building the Price Book. Takes ten seconds, costs nothing, and the first edition lands in your inbox.
Free for Onion Creek neighbors. No spam, no selling your email, unsubscribe anytime.