If you’re Las Vegas, and you have thousands of underused hotel/condo rooms because of the economic downturn, what do you do with them? If you’re Candace Bailey of Luxury Suites International, you profit. Her company serves condo owners looking to save their investments and hotels needing cash flow on empty rooms by providing a hybrid […]
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There are a dozen homes in Detroit, Michigan that you can get for less than $100. Most have a listing price of only $1. Some of them even have walls and doors! Readers, what would you do with a $1 house?
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Buford, Wyoming, the town for sale we mentioned last month has sold for $900,000. The buyers were two businessmen from Vietname. MSNBC: Until recently, the town’s one resident was Don Sammons, 61, who managed the town’s liquor sales, hardware sales, gas pump and hot dog warmer. Sammons moved months ago, and the phone to the
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Buford, Wyoming, population now 1, will be auctioned at noon April 5. Don Sammons, the town’s sole resident, has put the town up for auction with Williams and Williams, an auction company based in Oklahoma City. This will be the company’s first town to auction, said Amy Bates, the company’s chief marketing officer. Buford sits
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Free Malaysia Today: It may not be everyone’s idea of a dream home, but for bargain hunters in Hong Kong’s turbocharged property market apartments that belonged to the recently deceased are proving irresistible – and the more gruesome the occupant’s demise the better. Popular belief in a city awash with superstition runs that the ghost
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. How do you sell a luxury home in a down market? The same way you sell anything: you sell the benefits, and not the features. The 4,250-square-foot, 14-room home sits on a half-acre lot and features four bedrooms, 3.2 baths, a large screened-in porch with a chandelier, but it also has something that no
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Sometimes while working on a real estate contract, Betsy Gorman will drop a quick email to her partner for details. On occasion she’ll also send one of her kids across the street for paperwork. Sometimes her partner fills in for her, and often she fills in for her partner, reports The Washington Post. “She jokingly
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In a recent article from The Street, CIT Group argues that business owners are missing out on a prime opportunity to pick up real estate at great prices. According to CIT analysts, cheap commercial real estate is one of “the few upsides” for small-business owners trying to operate in a harsh economic climate. But entrepreneurs
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They built it and boy-oh-boy did they come. The Boston Globe reports that an estimated 1 million visitors have journeyed to the “Field of Dreams’’ movie site since the Academy Award-nominated film was released in 1989. But the owners of the farm, Don and Becky Lansing, say they have gone the distance, and now the
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In New York, the most glaring signs of the Great Recession are the stalled construction sites littering the city–boarded up, dusty, and desolate eyesores. The architecture mega-firm Woods Bagot may have a solution, which they’ve just unveiled: Temporary, inflatable buildings that let the developers make money while they wait for their finances to shape up.
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