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Edward Andrews Homes Hosts Model Preview and Lunch at Marseille

Isabel Benny — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:25:00 +0000

About Sales, Inc. is pleased to announce that Edward Andrews Homes is hosting a model preview and lunch for Realtors at its new South Forsyth community, Marseille. Realtors will be able to tour the new model, featured on The Savvy Homebuyer, and enter to win an iPad 2, wine and cheese basket and gift cards. The event will be held on Tuesday, May 15 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the new Camellia floor plan at Marseille in Cumming.

The Camellia model home is priced at $393,530 and has five bedrooms and four full baths. The home boasts a two-story family room with a bowed wall of windows looking out to the stone patio with fire pit.

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Spotlight on 5410 Vista Del Arroyo Drive, La Crescenta 91214

Seth Bird — Mon, 14 May 2012 11:10:46 +0000

I have an upcoming listing located at 5410 Vista Del Arroyo Drive, in La CrescentaAbout La Crescenta:

This is not the land that time forgot, but a delightful suburb with low crime and highly ranked schools.

According to the Crescenta Valley Chamber of Commerce: “La Crescenta is a residential community offering nighttime rest, seclusion and quiet for families who make their livings in the roar of one of America’s greatest cities.

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Epic Purchases NYC’s 155 KSF Office Building at 148 Lafayette for $132M

Gabriella Board — Thu, 10 May 2012 13:01:14 +0000

By Barbra Murray, Contributing Editor

The historic Manhattan building at 148 Lafayette St. was just a diamond in the rough when Property Group Partners picked it up for approximately $60.4 million in 2007, and now the office asset, buffed to a shine, has traded for approximately $131.7 million. Epic is the new owner of the Class A destination in SoHo.

Five years have made all the difference at 148 Lafayette. We bought this building when it was, excuse the expression, a dump, Rolland Baribeau, chief operating officer of Property Group, told Commercial Property Executive.

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CurbedWire: Lincoln Place Tenants Finally Go Home, Choo on Selling LA

Gabriella Board — Tue, 08 May 2012 08:07:47 +0000

VENICE: A tipster tells us that tenants have started moving back into the Lincoln Place apartments in Venice. Following a years-long legal battle, developer AIMCO was found to have illegally evicted the tenants and a deal was finally reached in 2010 for the “largest ever restoration of rent-stabilized housing to the city’s rental market.” Sounds like everyone’s finally going back home now, and to freshly renovated apartments.

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Coral Gables tentatively approves changes to UM development plan

Seth Bird — Mon, 07 May 2012 02:48:11 +0000

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Preserving some of the University of Miamis history was up for discussion at the Coral Gables City Hall on Tuesday.

In a unanimous decision, city commissioners tentatively approved their staffs recommendation to accept revisions to the University of Miamis University Campus District Master Plan to permit two additional buildings within the Campus Transitional Area along San Amaro Drive on the northwestern perimeter of the Coral Gables campus.

The additions will not increase total building square footage but will preserve three existing buildings that were deemed historically significant by the citys Historical Resources Department.

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$329,900 Home For Sale in Spring Lake Heights, NJ 07762

Isabel Benny — Fri, 04 May 2012 03:49:32 +0000

105 Walnut Dr Spring Lake Heights, NJ 07762

2bd. 2fb. 1pb. Condo/Townhouse $329,900
Home is ready for its next owner. Freshly painted, newer kitchen, corian countertops. Newer doors, heating/ac unit. This unit is in a great location and is priced to sell!!! Bike to beach and downtown Spring Lake. Read full article…

Three is One and Two and One are None!

Seth Bird — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 10:05:33 +0000

Just recently I read the book Seal Target Geronimo about the seal team operation that killed Osama bin Laden. Seal operators have this saying, One is none and two is one. Which means when you are dealing with physical equipment you have to have a backup if you want a high probability of having one piece of that equipment is always working. On the operation against Bin Laden the Seals learned something new about backup because they lost a super secret stealth helicopter because two of its critical avionics boxes failed at the same time just as they were leaving the Bin Laden compound. Luckily they had two other helicopters. What the Seals learned is that having two backups is sometimes essential when you are dealing with complex electronics. Comm

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Area High School Lacrosse Teams, Players To Watch

Isabel Benny — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 02:48:54 +0000

Boys Teams

Conard-West Hartford: One of the area’s most consistent programs should contend for the CCC West title again with solid core of seniors and junior attack Danny Kycia (25 goals last season).

Hall-West Hartford: After its best season in program history, Warriors must regroup around new leadership and find way to score after the graduation of its prolific offense.

Glastonbury: Third-year coach Mark Landers is faced with his toughest task yet after the departure of 10 starters.

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$230,000 USD MLS® – Kings Gate, Las Vegas, NV, US

Gabriella Board — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 23:45:22 +0000

“Gorgeous 1 Story Home! Read full article…

Carlton at Hamilton Mill Selling Quickly

Isabel Benny — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:39:07 +0000

Carlton at Hamilton Mill, a Rocklyn Homes community in the highly sought after Hamilton Mill area, has been seeing an increase in sales. This gated community sold six townhomes in March and will soon be adding an additional three buildings to meet buyer demand.

With six different three and two bedroom and two-and-half bath floor plan options, these low maintenance townhomes are affordably priced from the $120,000s. Kitchens feature gorgeous upgrades including granite countertops, breakfast bar and GE appliances.

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Investment: Rising Residential

Gabriella Board — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:36:32 +0000

(U.S. pricing per square foot [1])

[1] Based on independent reports of properties and portfolios $5 million and greater. Data believed to be accurate but not guaranteed. [2] Price per unit denominated in $000s. RCA will aggregate significantly more transaction activity.

$829,900 Home For Sale in Rumson, NJ 07760

Isabel Benny — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 07:49:43 +0000

74 Washington St Rumson, NJ 07760

4bd. 3fb. Single Family $829,900
Wonderful Colonial lovingly renovated features new kitchen w granite counters and stainless appls, harwd flrs, first flr bedrm & new full bath, large great room, master bedrm w spectacular new bath (rain head shower, double sinks, jacuzzi tub & much more) & large walk-in-closet w organizers, add’l 2nd flr new full bath & 2 add’l bedrms, new carpet, finished basmnt w wood burning stove, basmnt workroom, 32×12 covered deck, oversized heated garage w storage, & great yrd. Walk to schools and town. Read full article…

Weekend Open House: The Return of the Baldwin Hills Eichler-esque House

Gabriella Board — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 06:41:09 +0000

Open House: Saturday, March 31, 2012, between 2:00 and 5:00 PM

5618 Sunlight Pl, in the flats of Baldwin Hills
Price: $849,000
Beds, Bath: 4/2
Floor Area: 1,977 sq. ft.
Per the Listing: “Westside meets Eastside Near to the Expo Train Line stop (opening 4/28!) & take the lightrail to Downtown LA. GREAT for commuters! Rare & amazing Mid-Century Modern home. Per previous owner, designed by KAZ NOMURA, draftsman of EICHLER Homes architect A. QUINCY JONES. Great undiscovered Culver City adjacent neighborhood. Remodeled bathrooms & kitchen with original mid-century style intact.

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What is a mudroom?

Seth Bird — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 22:46:11 +0000

My sister lives in the state of Washington and the climate there is much wetter than our Southern California sunshine. Many of the homes in her neighborhood have mudrooms. According to Wikipedia: many suburban American houses have a mud room, a casual, generally secondary entryway intended as an area to remove and store footwear, outerwear, and wet clothing before entering the main house. As well as providing storage space, a mud room serves to increase the cleanliness of a house proper. Th

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Home loan modification – Is it a good way to forestall foreclosure?

admin — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:48:54 +0000

When you’re overburdened with too many debts and you also have a home mortgage loan to take care of, you should be struggling to make the payments on time. Defaulting on the mortgage loan or an auto loan is certainly different from defaulting on any other personal loan as your property is kept as collateral to the loan. Soon as you start missing the payments on the home mortgage loan, the lender will start contemplating a foreclosure or at least a repossession whereby you’ll lose your homeownership rights. However when you start facing difficulty to repay the loan on time, you can either opt for refinancing or a home or opting for home loan modification. Are Read full article…

State issues timeshare fraud alert

Isabel Benny — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 04:57:54 +0000

Efforts to dupe timeshare owners are spreading throughout California, prompting the state Department of Real Estate to issue a fraud alert warning about the practice.

The scammers offer to buy timeshares from owners eager to dump their vacation investments, but demand fees in advance and vanish once theyre paid.

“The red flag is the request for money up front,” said Department of Real Estate spokesman Tom Pool.

The alert identifies three main types of timeshare scams:

Unlicensed fraudsters pose as legitimate, licensed real estate agents, providing a false sense of security to consumers, then demand upfront fees as part of the transactions.
Fraudsters claim to have “ready and willing buyers” lined up for the owners’ timeshares.
Frausters pose as buyers seeking to purchase owners’ timeshares, posting ads stating, “Will Buy Your Timeshare for Cash” or “Timeshares Wanted.” They then seek upfront fees to process the paperwork.

“No services of any kind are actually provided,” the DRE warned. “Once those monies are

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