Even in the daytime, the light just never penetrated to the interior of the home. Buyers just love dark and dreary. This one should go fast! The only thing worse than a […]
I’ve got a busy weekend of viewing homes that will be in the upcoming foreclosure auctions. I’ve seen some of them already. Some are absolute dumps, and only for the hard core home restoration folks, […]
Just east of Valley View between Oakey and Charleston, you’ll find a delightful neighborhood of 288 cottage and bungalow style homes. Westleigh was built between 1952 and 1957 on 8 to 11,000 sf lots. […]
Of all the features that should definitely be shown, it’s really important to point out that the home has walls. Sometime the walls even have pictures or doo-dads on them. In fact the walls and doo-dads are […]
Or for that matter, at the top of your water heater? Or up on your roof? Is there a problem waiting to happen? Home inspections aren’t just for new buyers. A couple of hundred dollars […]
It’s just the funniest example I’ve ever encountered. We see streaks on the ceiling eminating from the registers, but this was just too much. Flocked wallpaper was all the rage once upon a time, and […]
It’s a great idea to mop the floors,and vacuum the rugs in preparation for putting a home on the market. It’s important to leave the mop, and bucket, and vacuum cleaner handy so that […]
We wrote about many of the great neighborhoods of Vintage Vegas on our old website, when we had very few regular readers. Now, there’s lots of regular readers, so we’re going tell about them again. […]
By Brian Paco Alvarez As a curator and urban historian I am constantly looking up new sources of information about my native home. As Steve and Jack can tell you Paco has books. I […]
It’s a bedroom. No, wait. It’s a living room. No, wait a minute, maybe it’s a storage room. Or Maybe it’s a bedroom or it might be the family room. I give up. Next. Click. […]