I love this idea - but $140,000 each? Hat tip Eddie89! The region’s first housing project made from shipping containers could open as soon as April, providing homes for 21 formerly homeless veterans and possibly paving the way for hundreds of new affordable and...
What Do You Put Under That Staircase? Hello again blog readers! Sometimes a home can lack enough square footage. Home owners start turning attics into bedrooms, windows turn into bookshelves, and the space under the staircase can become anything you want! Today my...
The Negev, a communal living space that styles itself as a home for millennial tech workers to brainstorm ideas, write code and create apps, even if they have to share toilets and bathrooms with dozens of others.
In the last downturn, there were a surprising amount of people who were underwater but hung on - and today with record-high prices, they are glad they did. We learned that whether you had equity or not, the chance of default was influenced by other factors. If...
Have you seen a home sale close at a surprisingly-low price, and you said, "Geez, I would have paid that!" Usually the house has been on the market for months, and everyone else has forgotten about it. The seller doesn't want to lower the price, but tells his agent,...
Hat tip to daytrip for sending this in: http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20150901-luxury-for-the-pinterest-crowd For the Pinterest generation, which is used to browsing and pinning glamorous photos of home decor, showcasing their own magazine-worthy spaces online is...
The first few house lotteries were shut down due to their gambling nature, but now there are new twists. First it was the flipper who is unloading a 1906 Craftsman-style home to the person who submits $100 and the best dessert-recipe HERE Now these folks in Phoenix...
Another app for your phone - this one opens your front door:
Read two articles - an excerpt from the first: Fournier’s new home is about 3,840 square feet. Her superpantry is a perk that her previous home, also in Carlsbad, didn’t have. In the old home, she didn’t even have a basic walk-in pantry. She kept her bulky Costco...
Last night we heard a proposal to raise the capital-gains tax. Can we cut to the chase and dive into reforming the tax code instead? I don't want to get into the politics of it, let's leave that for other bloggers. Everyone can agree that some sort of tax reform is...
