Bethany Erickson
Musician and singer Norah Jones may have been born in Manhattan to concert producer Sue Jones and Indian sitarist Ravi Shankar, but she grew up with her mother in Grapevine, Texas, and eventually found her way to Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas. We mention this because eventually,…
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Depending on how old you are, the mention of Key West, Florida, either makes you think of Ernest Hemingway, Tennesee Williams, or Jimmy Buffet — the celebrities who have, at various points in time, made the island home. Discovered by Ponce de Leon, Key West was claimed by Spain in 1513 and named Las Martines.…
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Vacation rental management platform Vacasa announced that it acquired Wyndham Vacation Rentals from Wyndham Destinations for $162 million, financed through a combination of $156 million cash and $10 million in Vacasa equity. Never heard of Vacasa? The company has been making inroads in the vacation home market since 2009, focusing on short-term rental management and,…
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Joe Pesci is putting his Jersey Shore mansion up for sale, but to have any Positraction (see what we did there?) in the exchange, you’ll need $6.5 million. Realtor.com had the story first – the Oscar-winning actor with a long line of quotable movie roles was hanging a for sale shingle out on his Lavallette,…
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For baseball fans, the pilgrimage to Cooperstown, New York, is considered to be something of a must-do. Between the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and the incredible sundry of other museums and historical places to visit and shop, the village of Cooperstown is an idyllic location for a second home. Take, for instance,…
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Thanks to deeper pockets and low mortgage rates, more people are buying vacation homes – boosting both demand and price, revealed the National Association of Realtors’ 2019 U.S. Vacation Home Counties Report. The median sales price in vacation home counties increased at a pace of 36 percent in the five years between 2013 and 2018…
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