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Innovative use for a rental house (aka Renter as Entrepreneur)


Having trouble paying your rent?
How about turning it into a sex club and having members “donate” to use the facilities.
That’s what one enterprising couple did in Des Moines, a suburb South of Seattle.
The house, on the 1200 block of South 232nd Street, rented for $2,200 a month. It seemed perfect: It’s a big […]

Discount real estate firm files Chapter 11


Why Help-U-Sell is going bankrupt

Online Videos by Veoh.com

Live rent-free in high-priced neighborhoods


If you own apartment buildings, you know how disheartening it is when you discover that you got yourself a professional “No Payer” or a “Squatter” for a tenant. Here is how renters work the system to live for free in San Francisco via Grow-a Brain.

Happy Elvis Death Day


In my never-ending quest to write about Elvis and Real Estate, imagine my glee when I spotted this life-size gold lame clad Elvis cut-out at the entrance to this home for sale on Capitol Hill in Seattle. This was a few weeks ago, but I saved the photo for Elvis Death Day (tomorrow will […]

Saving a vintage S&M dungeon house


The Seattle PI had a story about Steven Flynn, a Seattle musician who is trying to save a 1908 Craftsman house scheduled for demolition. A developer wants to clear the space for more townhouses and Flynn is in a last-second bid to make arrangements to buy the house and move it to his Fremont […]

Google Street View catches house on fire


Well, it didn’t start the fire, but it caught it on tape.
Zillow lists this same home in foreclosure. The ultimate fire sale.
It remains visible in Google Maps.

New homeowners manual from the 1950’s


On holiday in Wales, Boing Boing contributor Cory Doctorow found this old owners manual for a post-war pre-fab bungalow.

Thanks for the plug, Keith


Next time you quote me, please link to this site too and add a photo, would you?
Signed,
Real Estate Poodle

A different kind of real estate Flip


Joel at Future of Real Estate Marketing had a post about the Flip Video camera, a device which coincidently I’ve been trying to figure out how to use. I was sent one by FrontDoor and invited to make real estate videos for their blog FrontDoor: Unlocked. They’ve been assembling a group of […]

Redfin Rant


Vancouver real estate agent Ian Watt.

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