Second Shelters
I’ve been in NYC all week looking at second homes, even staying in a second home. God, what I have learned about space-use, like this expandable kitchen counter. I have also lost some emails, so please re-send if you have not heard from me!
Read MoreWe hope not. The last two years have been the worst years for real estate since the Great Depression. At yesterday’s General Session here at Inman Connect in NYC, four experts gave us their view of where the market will be going in 2011. Of course, to wake up to a rise in unemployment claims this…
Read MoreYou know how it is: we all know the best real estate agents, usually people we have worked with, realtors we trust. In Dallas, we are lucky enough to be loaded with top quality agents. We look at some of those those “best lists” and scratch our heads — who are these people, and did…
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Not just any toilet, but the Toto Neorest. It happens to be in the master bath of the second home I am enjoying here in (c-c-c-cold) New York City. It heats, washes, dries, all but buffs and powders your butt and is self-cleaning. I was more than delighted to see such high-quality fixtures in this…
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I will not say I told you so, but I did, and this is the very reason why we are talking today. The Wall Street Journal today reports that sales in vacation communities soared last year to heights not seen since the real estate boom that crashed (and burned) in 2008. (For those of us in…
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Nobody ever sells on Stonebridge Drive in Dallas (well, two were sold in the neighborhood whole of last year). The street has anti-tank berms at the north end that virtually eliminate rush hour rat-runners and drunken revelers lost after midnight. It makes for a quiet existence, dismembered from the hurly-burly of living in the heart…
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