Posts with tag unreal estate

SALT LAKE CITY -- Two self-described Disney "fanatics" have purchased a house in Utah modeled after the colorful home featured in the animated movie "Up." Discovering the house in the Salt Lake City suburb of Herriman, Utah, was a dream come true for Clinton and Lynette Hamblin of Petaluma, Calif. The couple had been... Continue Reading »

Sometimes picket fences and cupolas just won't do when it comes to making a statement with your house. If you're in the market for an off-the-wall custom home, consider drawing inspiration from architecture's greatest follies. Derived from the French word for "foolish," folly-inspired buildings defy logic and convention... Continue Reading »

Looking for a way to sweeten the deal in order to sell your home? Well, don't. Try something with a little more kick to create buzz -- literally. That's what Melanie Gravdal, a homeowner in Glenview, Ill., is doing by offering a $1,000 bar tab to the buyer of her home, The Associated Press reports. Gravdal is offering the... Continue Reading »

If you thought the Hamptons couldn't get stuffier, you thought wrong. It looks like vacationing masters of the universe can now face time behind bars for a much more benign offense than manipulating markets: not trimming their hedges. BusinessInsider.com reports that under a new law, if Village of Southhampton residents... Continue Reading »

Each week, AOL Real Estate probes the corners of the Web to bring you offbeat dispatches from the world of real estate. This week: house demolition with possibly deadly consequences, an unsavory renovation, and a pilot who got more than he bargained for. One of action hero Steven Seagal's biggest pet peeves is animal... Continue Reading »

Each week, AOL Real Estate probes the corners of the Web to bring you offbeat dispatches from the world of real estate. This week: stories of hapless intruders, including a thirsty 8-year-old who got stuck in a neighbor's chimney, a cantankerous hawk and a swarm of bats that has prompted a lawsuit. But first, a... Continue Reading »

Each week, AOL Real Estate probes the corners of the Web to bring you offbeat dispatches from the world of real estate. This week: stories of creepy things that you really don't want to live with, including an 800-year-old skeleton in the cellar, a corpse in the chimney and 700 cats anywhere. According to an AP report, a... Continue Reading »

She has 300 children in her three-bedroom apartment, and she cleans, dresses and feeds many of them on a daily basis. Performing those tasks isn't necessary though – the children aren't actually alive. Marilyn Mansfield, a plus-size model who has appeared in Penthouse, has over the years amassed a brood of... Continue Reading »

Each week, AOL Real Estate probes the corners of the Web to bring you offbeat dispatches from the world of real estate. This week, some "gotchas," with the news that the founder of a for-sale-by-owner website used a broker to sell his house, and the revelation that the head of New York's "Rent Is Too Damn High" movement... Continue Reading »

Each week, AOL Real Estate probes the corners of the Web to bring you offbeat dispatches from the world of real estate. This week brought reports of a "tell-us-your-hook-up" ad campaign, a lawn-sculpture designed to offend neighbors, an amateur scientist arrested for attempting to split atoms in his kitchen and a Korean... Continue Reading »

Each week, AOL Real Estate probes the corners of the Web to bring you offbeat dispatches from the world of real estate. This week brought word of two curious crimes against tenants and reports of bizarre-as-heck things you can purchase -- like towns, prisons and summer camps. Looks like the ogling which buffalo-wings... Continue Reading »

Each week, AOL Real Estate probes the corners of the Web to bring you offbeat dispatches from the world of real estate. This week brought word of people finding some of the worst things imaginable in their homes, including an invading army of scorpions and a live grenade. Scorpions top this week's list of unpleasant... Continue Reading »

Each week, AOL Real Estate probes the corners of the Web to bring you offbeat dispatches from the world of real estate. This week, events took a morbid turn, what with a landlord setting a tenant on fire for being late on rent, an investigation into the frequency of injury by falling air conditioners, and the discovery of... Continue Reading »

Each week, AOL Real Estate probes the corners of the Web to bring you offbeat dispatches from the world of real estate. This week it's critters galore, with stories about pet skunks, mistreated monkeys, and community crackdowns on dog poop. One skunk we could understand -- maybe. But 15? One couple has a soft spot for... Continue Reading »

Each week, AOL Real Estate probes the corners of the web to bring you offbeat dispatches from the world of real estate. This week: discount bunkers, psychic superintendents, and the most embarrassing home-listing photo ever taken. "Rapture bunkers" are now running at prices low enough to make end-of-days believers think... Continue Reading »