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Innovative use for a rental house (aka Renter as Entrepreneur)
Having trouble paying your rent?
How about turning it into a sex club and having members “donate” to use the facilities.
That’s what one enterprising couple did in Des Moines, a suburb South of Seattle.
The house, on the 1200 block of South 232nd Street, rented for $2,200 a month. It seemed perfect: It’s a big [...]
08/19/2008 03:27 PM
Discount real estate firm files Chapter 11
Why Help-U-Sell is going bankrupt
Online Videos by Veoh.com
08/18/2008 12:56 PM
Live rent-free in high-priced neighborhoods
If you own apartment buildings, you know how disheartening it is when you discover that you got yourself a professional “No Payer” or a “Squatter” for a tenant. Here is how renters work the system to live for free in San Francisco via Grow-a Brain.
08/17/2008 08:27 PM
Happy Elvis Death Day
In my never-ending quest to write about Elvis and Real Estate, imagine my glee when I spotted this life-size gold lame clad Elvis cut-out at the entrance to this home for sale on Capitol Hill in Seattle. This was a few weeks ago, but I saved the photo for Elvis Death Day (tomorrow will [...]
08/15/2008 05:12 AM
Saving a vintage S&M dungeon house
The Seattle PI had a story about Steven Flynn, a Seattle musician who is trying to save a 1908 Craftsman house scheduled for demolition. A developer wants to clear the space for more townhouses and Flynn is in a last-second bid to make arrangements to buy the house and move it to his Fremont [...]
08/13/2008 04:01 AM
Google Street View catches house on fire
Well, it didn’t start the fire, but it caught it on tape.
Zillow lists this same home in foreclosure. The ultimate fire sale.
It remains visible in Google Maps.
08/12/2008 10:17 PM
New homeowners manual from the 1950’s
On holiday in Wales, Boing Boing contributor Cory Doctorow found this old owners manual for a post-war pre-fab bungalow.
08/11/2008 02:09 PM
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