Portland Pullman Rail Car – The Perfect Vacation Home
A vacation home on wheels? I may have found the perfect second home. Or heck, primary home if you swing (roll?) that way. So basically, you buy this rail car and then tug it around the country depending where you want to vacation. Done and done–a home and a means of transit all in one. (more&hellip)
Back to My Roots
I dislike when bloggers stop writing for a long time, then they come back with tons of excuses about why they’ve been gone. I don’t CARE what you’ve been doing – I read you for content so don’t preface it with a paragraph of blubbering about how you’re going to be better from now on. (more&hellip)
Reader Profile Update: An Artists’ Paradise in Taos
You may remember the Real Savvy profile of Jessica Gormley a few months back. Jessica is a real estate maven, whose guiding principal is one of stewardship. She believes in honoring a home’s history, and this became perfectly clear to me when I visited her stunning Taos estate last month. I gush more fully about (more&hellip)
Super Tall Firehouse Explodes onto San Francisco Market
Discerning readers may recall that we gushed over a stunning firehouse-turned-real house last April. Well, there’s another fire a-blazin’ and this time it’s my burning desire for the latest real estate listing to hit the San Francisco market. All these firehouses for sale begs the question, what happens if there’s a fire? Are there any (more&hellip)
Subterranean Glass House in Big Sur
October 1, 2010 by Rebecca
I couldn’t just sit back and let this house exist, un-drooled-over. I had to crack open the ol’ WordPress and let the gushing flow. The interior alone is enough to knock you over. But then you realize that this house is literally built into a CLIFF. The 1,900 sq ft home sits on 40 acres (more&hellip)
Live/Work Loft in NYC
Why yes, yes I’d love to come live in this stunning TriBeCa loft. What? I have to WORK there as well? So be it. In honor of my recent pro-renting rant, I thought I’d feature a rental for a change. No, it’s not exactly thrifty at $30,000/month, but hey, budgeting has to start somewhere. The (more&hellip)
Update: Live-In Landlord Opportunity in NYC
August 19, 2010 by Rebecca
Whilst browsing Sotheby’s the other day, as I am wont to do, I came across a rental listing for a New York City building that I featured back in May. The building, if you remember, was a rent-regulated 6-unit West Village building. Listed for $4.5 million, it’s now under contract, and the owners are already (more&hellip)
Sustainable Building and Condo Breakdowns
August 17, 2010 by Rebecca
How do I constantly find myself reporting on real estate gone wrong? Oh yeah, because it seriously happens, and I believe people need to weigh all the risks when making real estate decisions. Today’s real estate disaster is rather epic in scale, and it’s also a tale of six degrees of real estate separation. Remember (more&hellip)
Sustainably Stunning in Taos
Sustainably stunning? Is that super lame? I can’t tell – that’s what the Internet does. It turns your brain to mush! What I know ISN’T lame is this tricked out sustainable house in Taos, NM. (Disclaimer: I was born and raised in New Mexico so I have inside information about how awesome it is.) The (more&hellip)
A Man, A Rock, and the Sea
July 26, 2010 by Rebecca
We humans seem to have an unstoppable drive to explore, conquer, and dominate…especially when it comes to real estate. From elaborate treehouses built high above the ground, to rural country cottages far from civilization, we practically dare Mother Nature to try to contain us. This is not a new phenomenon. Back in the early 1900s, (more&hellip)
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