If I was a child, this would be the spot in the summer where I would start to dread the coming fall and hoard the moments of vacation. This is full summer and already the nights are growing longer. Have we done all we’d dreamed of doing when there were feet of snow on the [...]
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Tuesday on the Shifting Sands of Thought
Posted in real estate, tagged moving, summer on July 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Dream Apartment Features
Posted in photography, real estate, tagged heart shaped muffin, landlady, somerville on April 30, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Our Lot: How Real Estate Came to Own Us by Alyssa Katz
Posted in book review, real estate, tagged alyssa katz, book review, first time home buyers, our lot on January 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Ms. Katz goes into gruesome detail with classic readable muckraking style- you get to know a lot of characters as she explains what can only be described as a nationwide conspiracy on every level to inflate home prices and commit mortgage fraud. She says “titling a show Flip this House or Flip That House is [...]
Freeland Farm
Posted in arts and crafts, cooking, real estate on December 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The house I grew up in as illustrated by my mother for the menu for her Gourmet Club, September 1984.
Closed House, Salem
Posted in real estate, tagged ethics, first time homebuyers, real estate, registry of deeds, salem, shingles on December 3, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Alli dreamt that I had a shingled house, and it does seem fitting- one block from the water and the pioneer village. I’m having a difficult time getting real estate news and information about this region. This is, I believe, because of the slow ugly death of local newspapers. For Brooklyn there is brownstoner a [...]