All the squawking in this country about illegal immigration, I thought this might help influence your first, second and third home purchases: the safest cities in the U.S. have higher immigrant populations — and better ethnic food, all of which is very important when considering a second home purchase! CQ Report Press, now owned by…
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Trying to get out of Dodge to get to your second home for Turkey Day? There is all this controversy over the TSA’s new enhanced security measures, including the chance to get “patted-down” if you set off the metal detectors at the airport. The hardest part about having a second home is getting there, which,…
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Remember that post about it being too darn expensive for starving artists to live in NYC, so they are moving to Berlin and, well we’d hope, here to Dallas because our cost of living is allegedly so much cheaper? Well my dear (and quite brilliant) friend, Samantha Shaddock, who has a new (and fabulous) blog…
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Tiger Woods is one dude who appreciates, among other things, second homes. Jeff Lichtenstein of Christie’s Great Estates & Illustrated Properties in Palm Beach Gardens, sent us a first glimpse of Tiger Wood’s backyard and private practice complex –click on that photo, this is great House Porn: “It appears he has one tee box in…
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Could farmland be the next real estate bubble? Want to get a second home that is not only in the country, it IS the country? Like The Bridges of Madison County country? Buy a farm in Iowa. No kidding: Iowa farmland rose in value by 13 percent in the year ending Oct. 1, according to…
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Actually, by Guest Blogger John Burgdorf The Champ d’Or, one of the most expensive estates in Texas, is back on the market for nearly $70,000,000 — $69,900,000 to be exact. (That’s $100,000 to negotiate.) The 48,000. sq foot mega mansion is located in Hickory Creek right across the Denton county/Tarrant county line. I have been…
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