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Engine No. 7 is an Extraordinary New Orleans Investment Property

By Brenda Masse | April 20, 2023 | Comments Off on Engine No. 7 is an Extraordinary New Orleans Investment Property

If you want to ensure that your investment property stays booked 365 days a year, months, even years in advance, you have to find something truly unique, in a fabulous destination, worthy of going viral on social media. When I saw this listing I knew it would make the perfect choice for the first of…

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Lubbock’s Most Interesting House May Soon Be an Airbnb

By Mary Cate Long | January 20, 2022 | Comments Off on Lubbock’s Most Interesting House May Soon Be an Airbnb

Lubbock, Texas, was the unlikely scene where one man spent over nearly 35 years creating a house that was intended far more to be sculpture than livable. Robert Bruno built the entire thing himself out of Corten steel.  The house is all organic shape and rusty, red metal, defying gravity on four comparatively thin legs.…

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This Lighthouse-Turned-Artist Residency Blends Style and Sustainability

By Elaine Raffel | December 24, 2021 | Comments Off on This Lighthouse-Turned-Artist Residency Blends Style and Sustainability

When was the last time you heard about a “gorgeous” hazmat situation? Yet that’s exactly the word master builder and installation artist Randy Polumbo used to describe the dilapidated lighthouse in Orient Point, New York, he purchased off a government website.

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