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Friday, November 9, 2012
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Horse Ranch in California
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Survivor New Jersey
Subject: Re: Well are you okay?
Date: Nov 3, 2012 3:27 PM
Mabel & I are doing fine. No power, but I have a generator hooked into the house breaker box.
So the generator has been running since 6pm Monday. We have all the basic necessities.
We have heat, hot & cold running water, toilet & shower, TV,
phone, internet, microwave, toaster oven, fridge, freezer, and some
lights.
Have enough gas to last 2 1/2 days, now that the Gov has instituted gas rationing.
Haven't heard from Susie, hopw she responds.
From: artechno7@earthlink.net
Date: 11/03/2012 05:05 PM
To: "Suzi Q Yahoo" , "SuziQ Tropicana" , "PAM"
Subject: Well are you okay?
http://captnmortgage.blogspot.com/2012/11/who-will-lend-me-750k-today.html
I'm a nervous wreck and I don't even live in NJ anymore...
I can't imagine what it must be like for you.
Power, lights, heat, drainage?
love you
praying for your safety and the above link is a real estate project I'm working on...If you want in,
I'm looking for investors...LOL
no, I'm serious.
Nora
Who will lend me $750k? Today?
http://youtu.be/X1RkpiTp1zk
I found this wonderful property on youtube for sale and I am ready to move in and christen it Runaway Ranch where people ravaged by the hurricane can come and stay and recuperate.....
I'm an old cowhand from the Rio Grande....
I found this wonderful property on youtube for sale and I am ready to move in and christen it Runaway Ranch where people ravaged by the hurricane can come and stay and recuperate.....
I'm an old cowhand from the Rio Grande....
Monday, October 15, 2012
The House of Elvis
$12,995,000
1174 North Hillcrest Road, Beverly Hills CA 90210
Sunday, October 7, 2012
NYC apt formerly N Portman
http://evanjoseph.photoshelter.com/gallery/Home-of-Natalie-Portman/G0000BhHD5BnFREE/C0000VD4XLwhuhEY
165 Charles Street in New York City, a building designed by architect Richard Meier
and Natalie sold it for $5million and change. I think it has a pool!
165 Charles Street in New York City, a building designed by architect Richard Meier
and Natalie sold it for $5million and change. I think it has a pool!
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
What? demo Frank Lloyd Wright's Phoenix home????
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/10/03/arts/artsspecial/2012100403WRIGHT.html?ref=design
It’s hard to say which is more startling. That a developer in Phoenix could threaten — by Thursday, no less — to knock down a 1952 house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Or that the house has until now slipped under the radar, escaping the attention of most architectural historians, even though it is one of Wright’s great works, a spiral home for his son David.
It’s hard to say which is more startling. That a developer in Phoenix could threaten — by Thursday, no less — to knock down a 1952 house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Or that the house has until now slipped under the radar, escaping the attention of most architectural historians, even though it is one of Wright’s great works, a spiral home for his son David.
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The prospect of its demolition has suddenly galvanized preservationists,
as these crises often belatedly do. They are pursuing a two-pronged
attack, trying to have the building designated a landmark, although in
Arizona, where private property rights are strong, landmark status is
really just a stay of execution, limited to three years. After that the
owner is free to tear down the place. So the other prong of attack is to
find some preservation-minded angel with deep pockets who will buy it
from the developer. Preferably today.
Wright designed this 2,500-square-foot concrete home for David and his
wife, Gladys, on a desert site facing north toward Camelback Mountain in
a neighborhood called Arcadia.
The area, known since the 1920s for its citrus groves and romantic
getaway resorts among old Spanish colonial and adobe revival homes, was
increasingly subdivided after the war and filled with new,
custom-designed ranch houses.
But the Wright lot still had its orange trees. The architect took
advantage of them by raising his son’s house on columns, to provide
views over the orchard. It was a touch that partly echoed Le Corbusier’s
famous Villa Savoye in France; at the same time Wright chose a spiral design akin to the Guggenheim Museum’s. He had drawn plans for the Guggenheim by then, but it was still some years away from construction.
The David Wright house
is the Guggenheim’s prodigal son, except that unlike the museum, whose
interior creates a vertical streetscape while turning its back on the
city, David’s house was configured by Wright to look both inward and
out. It twists around a central courtyard, a Pompeian oasis to which he
gave a plunge pool and shade garden, but also faces onto the surrounding
desert, with sweeping views of the mountain.
The house is coiled, animated, like a rattlesnake, yet flowing and open.
A spiral entrance ramp gives it a processional grandeur out of
proportion to its size — especially nowadays, when many of the old ranch
homes in Arcadia have been torn down to make way for McMansions that
dwarf Wright’s house. The developer’s plan for the site involves
subdividing the lot and erecting two or more new houses.
“There is no house quite like this one, with its mythic content,” is how
Neil Levine, the architectural historian and Wright scholar, put it the
other day. “Everything is custom designed so that the house is, more
than most of Wright’s later buildings, a complete work of art.”
How could such a house go largely unnoticed? David and Gladys Wright
didn’t want their home in a residential neighborhood to be a museum, and
so not many architectural scholars or even Wright experts ever got
inside it, to see the rug and chairs and mahogany woodwork that Wright
devised, even though it is only about a dozen miles from Taliesen West,
the headquarters of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.
David died in 1997 at 102; Gladys in 2008, at 104, leaving the house, no
longer in mint condition, to granddaughters who sold it to a buyer
promising to fix it up and live in it. But the buyer did neither, and
the place, on its 2.2-acre lot, went back on the market. This June a
developer called 8081 Meridian bought it.
“The place was uninhabited for four years and it had never been placed
on a watch list,” explained John Hoffman, managing partner of 8081 Meridian,
when I called him on Monday. “We didn’t close on the property until the
city approved a lot split. The line through the property went through
one end of the house, so it was an indirect approval for demolition.”
That was his interpretation, although demolition requires separate city
approval, and in any case, before the sale closed, the landmark process
was already under way. It is scheduled to reach the City Council on Nov.
7. Though not written into the city ordinance,
it has for several years been city policy in Phoenix to seek owner
consent before designating any building for historic preservation, and
because 8081 Meridian never gave its consent, and has no intention of
doing so, Mr. Hoffman says he rejects the landmark process outright.
The threatened deadline derives from a demolition permit that a staff
member in the city development office issued to him and his partner,
Steve Sells, despite the fact that other city officials had flagged the
house to ensure no permit would be issued.
Planning authorities learned of the permit and voided it after the
demolition company the developer had hired, concerned about razing a
Wright house, called to check that the permit was valid. Mr. Hoffman
maintains that the permit is legal and that it expires on Thursday.
It may be that the demolition threat is being used as leverage to drive
up the price to be paid by preservationists. Having just bought the
house for $1.8 million, Mr. Hoffman said 8081 Meridian is looking to
clear $2.2 million from any sale, and has so far rejected a cash offer
floated several weeks ago from an anonymous, out-of-state Wright lover.
This prospective buyer promised a little over $2 million, according to
the realtor representing him.
Underlying the brouhaha is a proposition Arizona voters passed in 2006,
Prop 207, which calls for the compensation of owners any time the
government adopts some regulation that affects the value of their
property. No money has been paid so far, but the law has clearly had its
desired effect, making cities like Phoenix fearful of changing their
regulations and spooking city lawyers and historic preservationists.
The bottom line, for economic as well as cultural reasons, should of
course be protecting both owners and society. Toothless though a
three-year landmark delay may seem, it’s an eternity in pro-development
Arizona, and it can work. Various owners in the Woodland Historic District
in Phoenix, near the State Capitol, were dissuaded, during just such a
reprieve, from tearing down early-20th-century bungalows, and with some
city historic preservation bond money, have begun a restoration that has
revitalized the area.
Years ago Phoenix prevented the owner of El Encanto Apartments,
a conspicuous Spanish Colonial low-rise, from tearing it down to put up
a high-rise, and the stay helped shift the building into the hands of a
preservation-minded developer.
As for sparing the David and Gladys Wright house, you don’t have to be a
preservationist to believe that a major work by one of the greatest
American architects has a value to posterity, as well as to its Arcadia
neighbors, that competes with the interests of developers, who are
already well placed to make a healthy profit after just a few months’
investment. In retrospect, steps should have been taken long ago, by
Wright’s heirs and by city officials, to avoid all this.
But what’s now a cliffhanger is also a no-brainer.
It's Good to be Jessica Simpson's - PARENTS
While daughter Jessica Simpson
is enjoying her role as a new mother, parents Joe and Tina Simpson seem
to be opening a new chapter of their own — at least as far as real
estate goes. According to our friends at Trulia,
the two just listed their sprawling English country estate in Los
Angeles's prestigious Royal Oaks gated community. Listed for $4.3
million, the six bedroom, seven bathroom estate sits on 1.5 acres of
land. In addition to being able to house a large extended family, the
home also includes perks such as a professional theater, huge office,
lagoon style pool, a sports court, and putting range, just to name a
few. Keep reading to tour the charming property, and decide whether or
not you think the asking price will lure potential buyers.
Source: Trulia
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Sunday, September 2, 2012
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
How Much?
Decline and fall of the Italian villa: Haunting images of the forgotten palaces which are now spectacular ruins
- Photographer charts decline of country homes from Piedmont to Tuscany
- Believed to be more than 300 ghost villages -
'paesi fantasma' - in Italy
By
Nick Enoch
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For the most part, the villas lie in economically distressed areas with poor communications.However, there are cases where family tensions have been the cause of the residences' downfall. In one instance, the
construction of a nuclear power plant nearby led to the abandonment of
the village and the house master.
This
once-great Italian villa would most likely have been home to nobility
during the Renaissance - but now, it and many others have been
abandoned.
Yet there is still beauty to be found
- frescoes depicting angels and rustic scenes, and vaulted ceilings
which have managed to ward off the ravages of time.
To
document their sad demise, photographer Thomas Jorion has roamed the
north of the country - from Piedmont and Lombardy to Tuscany and Emilia
Romagna - for his gallery series, entitled Forgotten Palaces.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2181957/Italian-villa-The-palatial-rustic-retreats-Renaissance-lie-abandoned.html#ixzz22KAlPfDe
There are believed to be more than 300 Italian ghost villages, or 'paesi fantasma', many dating from medieval times. Residents have left such villages - many dating
from medieval times - for reasons ranging from
landslides to migration to big cities. The term 'villa' originally applied to the suburban summer residences of the ancient Romans and their later Italian imitators.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2181957/Italian-villa-The-palatial-rustic-retreats-Renaissance-lie-abandoned.html#ixzz22KCTEL3j
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
The New Fema Trailer or...
http://gizmodo.com/5930185/this-emergency-pop+up-shelter-is-also-the-perfect-bachelor-pad
Mayor Bloomberg's idea of a single apartment in New York City..
Saturday, July 28, 2012
Six million dollar steal in Malibu, aka The BU
Home Architecture Malibu Bridge House With Luxurious Features Up For Sale
Malibu Bridge House With Luxurious Features Up For Sale
Looking luxuriously secluded, the glamorous Bridge House
in Malibu, California, was designed to capture stunning views of the
city and ocean from high on a hillside, at the end of a gated
cul-de-sac. With living spaces spreading over 7,000 square feet, this
Malibu mansion is the result of creative thinking underwent by
medium-sized Malibu-based Sorensen Architects.
The design studio managed to create an inspiring delimitation between
the private and social areas of the house, ensuring that privacy and
entertainment meet in this fantastic luxury residence. Four bedrooms and
six bathrooms, alongside a massage room and gym, prove to be the
perfect spaces for a comforting, relaxing lifestyle. The swimming pool
and sundeck invite inhabitants outside, where unobstructed views merge
with challenging surroundings to shape an exiting living experience.
Available for $ 6,350,000, the Bridge House sure looks like a collection of residences, don’t you think?
Monday, June 4, 2012
Shanghai Achitectural Dragon...
Borrowing the shape of the long, twisting bodies of China's iconic
dragons, "Sity" is a building concept we're still trying to wrap our
heads around. It's designed to snake through a swathe of Shanghai and
includes a man-made river and park underneath it.
While the structure looks impossible to navigate, the designers have actually put some thought into how you could live and work in this thing, too.
Sity's spiraling structure sees it intersect the ground at several
points. It's at these junctions that pedestrians can enter, and the
structure is also joined to Shanghai by a subway line, river vessels and
a grid of roads.
So, what happens once you're inside? It's a little hard to
picture, but the plans call for "internal vertical/horizontal
transport," which we take to mean elevators and walkways. The structure
is mixed-use, and would include living and work, as well as public
spaces and recreation areas. In the gallery online get a better sense of its scale: people
are tiny and stick-like and boats look like toys. According to Architizer, it's supposed to stand some 60 stories tall, which would make Sity absolutely massive.
Via Yanko Design and Architizer
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Friday, May 25, 2012
Its good to be Johnny Depp
Saturday, January 28, 2012
HUD homes
There's a HUD house around the corner from me, and frankly, that's the first one I've ever seen. Its a bomb, of course, as in you huff and you puff and you can blow the house down, but still, I wanted to know the price, and the terms, and the qualifications. Do you think anybody bothered to return my call?
To be continued....
Homeowner assistance program is expanded
Saturday, January 28, 2012
The Obama administration, seeking to help more homeowners lower their interest rates and shed mortgage debt, will relax the rules on a federal loan-modification program and triple its incentives to banks.
The revised Home Affordable Modification Program, or HAMP, also would pay Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to forgive debt on homes that have lost value. The government-owned companies, citing cost, don’t reduce principal, a policy that has limited HAMP’s reach because they own or guarantee nearly half of U.S. home loans. About 900,000 borrowers have successfully used the lifeline to refinance, fewer than the 4 million borrowers HAMP — which pays mortgage servicers and investors for successfully modifying loans — was expected to reach.
Friday’s program changes are separate from a new refinancing plan that President Barack Obama promised to deliver in his State of the Union speech Tuesday.
Whether Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac accept the administration offer is up to Edward DeMarco, acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which is charged with minimizing losses to the companies and to taxpayers. DeMarco said he would analyze the potential costs and benefits of participating in HAMP’s principal write-down effort.
The HAMP expansion, called HAMP Tier 2, triples incentives paid to banks that reduce mortgage principal, to a maximum of 63 cents for every dollar of debt forgiven. Investors who rent out their properties would be eligible to refinance under the new rules. The deadline for applying for a HAMP loan modification is extended for a year, to the end of 2013.
The revised Home Affordable Modification Program, or HAMP, also would pay Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to forgive debt on homes that have lost value. The government-owned companies, citing cost, don’t reduce principal, a policy that has limited HAMP’s reach because they own or guarantee nearly half of U.S. home loans. About 900,000 borrowers have successfully used the lifeline to refinance, fewer than the 4 million borrowers HAMP — which pays mortgage servicers and investors for successfully modifying loans — was expected to reach.
Friday’s program changes are separate from a new refinancing plan that President Barack Obama promised to deliver in his State of the Union speech Tuesday.
Whether Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac accept the administration offer is up to Edward DeMarco, acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which is charged with minimizing losses to the companies and to taxpayers. DeMarco said he would analyze the potential costs and benefits of participating in HAMP’s principal write-down effort.
The HAMP expansion, called HAMP Tier 2, triples incentives paid to banks that reduce mortgage principal, to a maximum of 63 cents for every dollar of debt forgiven. Investors who rent out their properties would be eligible to refinance under the new rules. The deadline for applying for a HAMP loan modification is extended for a year, to the end of 2013.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
http://inhabitat.com/artist-victor-moore-builds-an-incredible-junk-castle-for-just-500/junk-castle/?extend=1
Perched atop a defunct rock quarry in Washington state, the "Junk Castle" is an ornate abode that was built completely out of salvaged materials for just $500. Created by high school teacher, writer and artist Victor Moore for his 1970 MFA thesis assemblage sculpture, the castle is made from pieces found at a local junkyard and around the site itself. Read on for a closer look at this fascinating recycled building!
Friday, January 20, 2012
Home sweet underwater home...
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Timber Cove, Calif.
Price: $1.995 million
Bedrooms: 1
Baths: 1
Square feet: 1,200
This is one of the most expensive 1,200 square-foot homes you'll ever find. The price tag is mainly due to its perch high on a promontory on the rugged Sonoma County coast.
The home is surrounded on three sides by crashing surf. And when the big rollers come in, the spray from breaking waves can wash over the roof of the house, more than 75 feet above the sea. The sturdy steel, stone, redwood and plexi-glass building has been securely anchored to solid rock, however.
The windowed walls give the rooms panoramic ocean views and the spire roof is practically all glass, flooding the interior with light. There's a stone fireplace, a dining area next to a glass wall, a wooden deck and a redwood hot tub.
The house sits on three acres of land and is accessed via a boardwalk. It's about two hours north of San Francisco and an hour or so from some great wine country.
For further information: Trulia
Friday, January 13, 2012
Mitt's Crib in La Hoya...
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Location: La Jolla, Calif.
Estimated value: $9.6 million
Out of all of the candidates, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney owns the most real estate, including a townhouse in Boston and this beachfront home in La Jolla, Calif.
Romney bought the home in May, 2008 for $12 million, according to public records. Now, he is planning a massive overhaul of the place.
The Spanish-style home is on a cul-de-sac with direct access to the beach. There are plenty of luxury features like a secluded patio with a lap pool, spa and a chef's kitchen.
Zillow currently values the home at $9.6 million, but that's about to change. Romney has filed an application with the city to tear down the 3,000-square-foot, single-story property and build a more than 8,000-square-foot, three-story home, according to the city of San Diego's development services department.
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