Other things that make my stomach ache.

I'm afraid of what the future will bring. Not the existential "what is my purpose in this lifetime" and " ... more from convenience than necessity. Our house was a duplex when we bought it, and for the first ... the house had been divided as a duplex, we have a kitchen upstairs as well as downstairs. When we took [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 05:16:00

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where are you headed…

shit i need and want to have done before or by the time i hit 25 next year. - I want to be out of here ... though. - i will find a job in the medical field again before i move there though. - i want a house. but if im still single… i’ll just townhouse or condo it up. duplex, sumn… the house isn’t that high [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 17:29:37

The view of our house from…our house.

Molly and I bought the duplex next to our house. We’re landlords!? I guess now we need some serfs…I mean tenants. [more...]

Date: 2008-07-20 13:58:11

Moral Shower

Sometimes I wish a thing such as a “moral shower” existed, ... that he had a nice house.  That’s when my nightmare began. My non-verbalized thoughts at the time appear in brackets “It’s alright”, he said. It's a much nicer house than my rented duplex. “We had a really [more...]

Date: 2008-10-15 19:45:17

2009 New Year's Resolutions

I can't believe another year has gone by already! In thinking about goals for 2009, let's first revisit what I wanted to accomplish in 2008:1 ... it will be a better long-term strategy to buy a duplex house that needs some cosmetic fixes first. Ideally, we'd ... the rental income from the 2nd unit in the duplex pays the mortgage on our single family [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 18:40:00

A house . . . maybe?

So Ben and I found a house (actually, I think it's a duplex) in Rexburg. It is a really good deal on a 3 bedroom 2.5 bath ... . There are so many other things that go along with buying a house. I really do hope it works out though ... to have a house and family - I never thought I'd say that out loud. Wish us luck!!! We'll keep you all posted! [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 17:25:00

Fanfare For the Common Woman

Via Jesse Auguste, the late Clinton campaign's turn to reactionary populism has produced a hilarious denouement courtesy of inevitably moronic ... in the new pad--an 18th-floor duplex in River House that was previously owned by Carter Burden and Libet [more...]

Date: 2008-07-11 05:19:42

Reminder of my listings / Houses

Greetings,Fellow realtors please take a look; these are some of my listings information;Quinta Amor del Sol/ Bucerias / 550, ... $225,000 usd Agua AzulMls 17087• Charming duplex House• located in a "cul de sac"• in a typical old ... * 2 bedroom cute house* 5 min from airporthttp://prurealtypv.homeip.net/profiles [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 23:50:00

Third Hand Smoke and a Barter Opportunity

This report on the hazards of “third hand” cigarette smoke has me concerned. I live in an old house that has been renovated into a duplex, with an upstairs ... . I don’t smell the odor from any other part of the house, just my bedroom, so I’m thinking [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 05:05:17

Angels in the City

On some evenings when I pass by the main Thiruvanmimur bus stop in Chennai, ... with joy. Her house is around the corner—a duplex with a big garden. As she opens the entrance door ... me that she has twelve dogs in her house—all rescued from various [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 19:53:00

Day 8: Reading & Blogging for Darfur

Well, it’s been one whole week!  I really wanted to get this update out yesterday but have found myself just plain tired ... s house.  There was this college duplex that had a huge sign in the window that said, “Save Darfur.” [more...]

Date: 2008-09-10 03:54:49

A Home for the Seasons: An Original Poem

After the death of my maternal grandparents, I attempted to write a book-length poem about them. It wasn’t very good—so I never finished it ... FOR THE SEASONSMy grandparents’ house seems to hug their shady street.A white duplex, its twin front ... in the collection take us through one year/four seasons at their house. I’m posting [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 14:20:00

McCain Picks Up Clinton Fundraiser's Support

Lady Lynn Forrester de Rothschild shall henceforth be known only as Lady Lynn Forrester de PUMA, Duchess of the Disaffected Hillary Voters ... House duplex to film a television ad. The timing of the endorsement does risk dulling the impact [more...]

Date: 2008-09-17 17:25:57

Clinton Lady for McCain

The expected endorsement of McCain by Lady Lynn Forrester de Rothschild, tomorrow amid a financial crisis is an easy target for snark ( ... once at her River House duplex to film a television ad. [more...]

Date: 2008-09-17 03:05:00

2009 Property Money Locations

In my last article in 2008 I tried to prepare you for the real estate investment opportunities in 2009, ... percentages in record time. Crown Estate Libra type of house (4 Bedroom Duplex) moved [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 02:47:26

My First Work: Victorian Home Addition Near USC

My First Work showcases a project recently completed by a student, architect or designer. Submissions to the tipline ... from the University of Southern California. Over the years, the interior of the existing house had slowly been partitioned off to become a duplex with dormitory type accommodations for students. Programmatically [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 19:17:26

Clerkenwell Apartment by David Chipperfield Architects

The Modern House Estate Agents have listed this duplex penthouse apartment for sale at £2.4 million. The 3 bedrooms, 2 bathroom apartment was designed by David Chipperfield Architects [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 13:44:42

What Would Be The Best For Me To Do?

Hi Everyone, I'm 20 years old and definitley want to invest in real estate. I am considering my options and what to buy for a 1st home/investment property. I was wondering if I should buy a duplex and rent out half, a 3 floor apartment house and rent out 2, or a larger [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 02:00:44

Linksys WRT54G2 Wireless-G Broadband Router

Here is another deals of Sunday. The extraordinary Linksys WRT54G2 Wireless-G Broadband router is sold for $48 at Amazon. The original price $73 ... ) devices to the network. There’s also a built-in 4-port full-duplex 10/100 Switch to connect ... connected anywhere in the house. The Wi-Fi Protected Setup feature makes it easy to configure [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 05:09:03

Meet the Investor: Interview with Real Estate Investor, Rich Weese

Its been a while since we did one of our Meet the Investor interviews . . . I hope we’ll get to post these more regularly! ... and kept finding properties to show my wife and I. My friend tried to sell us a house, but we were living in an apt for $110 per month. Any house was out of our range. Eventually, he found a duplex [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 19:35:48

intricate designs

Are you the kind to go out of your way to make your home beautiful and a bit different from other houses? What do you do? We are living in a rented duplex right now so I cannot do any changes in here much to my disappointment. But when we have our own house I want it to look good in an elegant way. I am not going [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 15:56:49

Progress can happen

Despite the beer flowing downstairs (more on that later) ... tore out closed up the back "staircase" which was from the days when the place was a duplex ... , it'll most likely remain like this until the house has new owners.The lathe board is coming down [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 10:30:00

Family Finds Man Living in their Attic

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. - One family’s Christmas wasn’t very merry due to an unexpected guest to come visit for the holidays ... and noticing a laptop, cash, and a new ipod had dissapeared. Her father, the owner of the duplex ... of the plans the 21 year old un-welcomed house guest emerged from attic willingly. Stanley Carter [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 01:05:52

Personal pest control

They thought they were hiding it pretty well. But like any dirty little secret, it was going to get out. The neighbors had roaches. [ ... traversing the wall between the two sides of the duplex we own. And where there’s one, there’s ten million ... that the house has never had a bug problem before. Never mind that I’ve already warned them [more...]

Date: 2008-10-03 15:02:49

Angelina Jolie is a Doll

Angelina Jolie is a Doll Thu, 25 September 2008 Check out the Angelina Jolie doll! ... Blaine is a boy on a string Tom Ford covers Vanity Fair Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel are house hunting together in NYC. The couple recently toured a condo duplex at the Loin’s Head building on West [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 18:18:10

San Antonio Realty News You Can Use

From the Builder Housing Forecast:  new home starts in SA down to 8700 for ’08 ... Virginia and South Dakota exceeded Texas. Lackland AFB is gaining 363 new single-family and duplex units.  Developer plans to invest $142 million in the new housing starting this spring Randall [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 01:14:24

In Which Georgia Puts A Prayer In The Wailing Wall

Look How Happy They Were by Georgia Hardstark For the first few years of my parents’ marriage, from about 1970 until 1975, ... , in the Miracle Mile district of Los Angeles. My mother had grown up in a duplex a stones’ throw ... agricultural community) called Sde Nitzan. There, they had a house, as well as their own glasshouse [more...]

Date: 2008-07-22 17:04:37

The First Apartment

Stolen from HERE. ;) 1. Where had you moved from? ~ From Mintal to Matina (Davao City, Phils.) Had to move out from my parents' house when I got married. ;) 2. Describe your first apartment. ~ It's a duplex apartment with two rooms and one bath. 3. How old were [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 05:49:28

Madonna Sorts out Guy's Finances

If you believe what you read, Guy Ritchie is accepting settlement money from Madonna only to please her ... in London, she gave Ritchie the Ashcombe House country estate in Wiltshire lock, stock, and barrel ... to turn it into a duplex, and eventually gave him £12 million as compensation. She decided early [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 15:57:51

Vacant Land: Buildable lot in Arlington

This is your chance to build a home of character in Arlington ... for a duplex, but final approval has already been obtained for a single family residence. House plan [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 05:17:08

Maison Yves Saint Laurent

I was looking for photos of Yves Saint Laurent's home earlier this year, I'll tell you why in the next post, ... to "auction off the art and objects with which he and Saint Laurent filled the late designer’s duplex ... . One of the items that won't be sold is the the couture house’s original logo from 1961 that was hand [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 01:24:00

Scottish Terrier prefers front deck to back garden

According to his owner, "Six-year-old Jack just loves lying, or sitting on our front deck ... , we lived on the upper storey of a duplex and Bridget spent a lot of time on the front balcony ... into a house with a back yard, she didn't know what to do with herself and seemed to really miss [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 14:19:00

Sunday open houses

There are several open houses you should visit this Sunday ... market cost. Units #3 & #4 could be combined into a 1374+/- square foot duplex.  The list ... for prices in the $570 - $620 per square foot range. OPEN HOUSE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 12:00 - 2:30 [more...]

Date: 2008-10-05 00:15:05

New Shoes at a Discount!

Freezing drizzle, wind, snow flurries, clouds, and cold - those are a good description of our weather today ... a pair of very nice hiking boots for $15 on a clearance table! I felt like I had found a $100K house ... confident that I'll have them rented soon.On the way home, I also stopped by the duplex where I fixed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 01:44:00

QB/QT Tom Brady real estate deal afoot

If you were checking out recent sales activity during the past week, you noticed that a unit at 310 Beacon Street was sold ... , through a corporation, has now closed on the purchase of the second floor duplex. The Boston Globe ... Bay in Quincy that lacked water views. He converted the Back Bay town house into four condominiums [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 16:44:19

Carly Simon Selling West Village Digs

SELLER: Carly Simon LOCATION: Commerce Street, New York, NY PRICE: $3,800,000 SIZE: 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms DESCRIPTION: Famous celebrity's 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom duplex in a townhouse renovated to perfection. Upstairs– ... dime, we endured a sleep talking and opera singing house mate who was neither tiny nor named Tim [more...]

Date: 2008-06-24 11:15:09

The MPLS real estate saga begins

DH dragged me out this past Saturday morning at 9:00 a.m. to look at Minneapolis real estate options. ( ... that we should just buy a single family for ourselves. Unfortunately, the house DH loved cost $239k ... , but even that monthly payment seemed high compared to buying a duplex.The duplex I'm currently [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 19:48:00

Dear Ina, We Are Happy to House-Sit

From Required Eating inahousetour.jpg Photos from House Beautiful Ina Garten has the reverse schedule of the average Manhattan apartment owner ... occasionally visiting the downtown duplex. On the Barefoot Contessa, we're so used to watching her shoe-less, strolling along the sand, but hardly get to see her urbanite side. House Beautiful magazine [more...]

Date: 2008-07-10 21:14:09

Looking back

It is hard to believe that Roger and I have been married for 15 years, but it is true ... , our insurance is about half it was then. When we got married we lived in a one bedroom duplex that was about 500 square feet and now we live in a 2000 sq foot 4 bedroom house with a two car garage [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 04:06:00

Following Up On Miss. Illegals Bust, Plus 62 More

Following up on yesterdays story of a huge bust in Mississippi As a result of yesterday’s enforcement action, ... , Texas — Federal agents found 62 illegal immigrants in a two-bedroom house after receiving a tip about suspicious activity in a quiet neighborhood Tuesday. Neighbors on both sides of the duplex where [more...]

Date: 2008-08-27 12:44:01

Following Up On Miss. Illegals Bust, Plus 62 More

Following up on yesterdays story of a huge bust in Mississippi As a result of yesterday’s enforcement action, ... , Texas — Federal agents found 62 illegal immigrants in a two-bedroom house after receiving a tip about suspicious activity in a quiet neighborhood Tuesday. Neighbors on both sides of the duplex where [more...]

Date: 2008-08-27 12:43:29

Jackson Mayor: I’m willing to pay price if it helps city

The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 1/5/9 Mayor Frank Melton, facing three felony charges for the sledgehammer destruction of a suspected crack house, says ... 59-year-old former television executive, is accused of violating the civil rights of a duplex owner [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 17:35:53

SanDisk Sansa e2×0

It is rare for me to contemplate new gadgetry without a pang of regret for the early passing of Douglas Adams ... , we had acoustic coupler modems, capable of what we thought was a dazzling half-duplex 1,200 bps ... motors and how they were going to revolutionise the world. There were diagrams of a “house [more...]

Date: 2008-09-06 00:55:10

Day One

January 20th, 2009. It was the day that many have been waiting for ... for it. One change that was seen at 12 noon was on the White House website, a new design, a new ... of blogs and other social media to make communication with voters a full duplex process. One thing [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 03:06:21

Vacation apartment in Rehavia (Miriam I and II)

PORUSH STREET SECOND FLOOR REHAVIA/SHAREI CHESED This hi tech, highly sophisticated, fully furnished, over the top, ... paying a fraction of the cost. There is a Smart House, which controls: VENETIAN BLINDS ALARM SYSTEM ... CONDITIONING ………….all with the touch of a button. Some of the amenities in this Duplex apartment are: BUILT [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 23:00:00

Tiny House Village Design Concept - part 3

In the first tiny house village post I proposed an idea of converting an existing mobile home park into a tiny house village ... onsite. Site is cleared, fenced and ready to go! Hard-to-find R2 zoning allows for a duplex [more...]

Date: 2008-09-10 02:43:57

Day Five: And Back Again

Seattle feels the same to me as it did the first time I was there, visiting my friend Pam in the summer of 1993. She and Jim lived in an apartment on Dexter, in a big pale-green duplex with a second-story ... be sent to the Seattle office to work with her. Once I went to her beautiful house with her to spend [more...]

Date: 2008-10-22 23:36:46

Krunching

Lot of people will be interested in selling their properties. Every person will have dreams about the future house. They may earn the needed money and then get a new house as they wish. You can spot the exact ... . He or She can select the type of property. It can be either duplex or detached residence. Few people [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 18:04:22

Cardinals and Springtime

ARIZONA CARDINALS ARE GOING TO THE SUPERBOWL!!and we got rid of our Direct TV last week-HELLLOO!WHAT WERE WE THINKING?!not straight that's for sure! ... in a 3-level duplex. Garage on ground floor, living area, bed/bath (Chels') on 2nd level ... into the room somehow. The accessories I can pull from all over the house. All of this on my thrifty [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 23:35:00

The Next Generation

My parents are not and were not hippies. But they’ve always hung out with hippies of the politically liberal-left persuasion, ... . In my second year going there, he and his family moved into the downstairs of our duplex. I can’ ... . They have a program for 18 months - 3 by next fall. It has 1 open slot. It is 10 min from our house, towards [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 21:26:15

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