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In the good old days, the wealthy used to scoop up gold and jewels and flee in the dead of night before poor, angry peasants descended upon their estates. Today, the million-dollar jewels are often red carpet loans where today’s décolletage is rented like a yesteryear billboard. Hiding assets from pillagees, modern-day pillagers have offshore…
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In the first of two trials, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was found guilty in August on eight of 18 counts of fraud. All that kept him from being found guilty on all 18 counts was a lone juror. The “witch hunt” had found another witch. Not eager for a potentially worse repeat at…
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Events of the past few weeks in Hawaii should send second home owners looking for their home insurance policies. Regardless of whether your property is located in the mountains, by the sea or anywhere else, insurance is critical. Remember, there’s always some disaster to be protected from. And in the case of second homes, their…
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The 2018 World Happiness Report named Finland as the world’s happiest country. In fact, the top four of the 156 countries measured were all Nordic – Finland, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland (“unhappy” Sweden popped in at number nine. The good old US of A? Eighteenth). The 2018 report is a cumulation of 2015-2017 while the…
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With the summer season quickly approaching and second homes on the rise, we decided to go to the lake life expert, the authority on Lake LBJ – Tammie Bennett of Kuper Sotheby’s International Realty – to get the real scoop on one of the hottest waterfront markets in the state! Ranked No. 1 in sales…
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Does living on the top floor of most high-rises still feel like living in the basement? Chicago’s 100-story John Hancock Center will change all that. Whereas the tallest residential home in Dallas is a 42nd floor penthouse, the Hancock’s condos don’t start until the 44th floor and continue all the way to the 92nd floor. Completed in 1969,…
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