Story Time With Gary: Did I Sell A Haunted House?

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   Today, I’m going to tell you a story—and I can’t tell you whether it’s real or not, I can only tell you what I was told. Here’s what happened: a wonderful
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Wikkelhouse

Wikkelhouse at Stayokay Dordrecht, Netherlands. Photo and ©: Yvonne Witte / Wikkelhouse. Photo used with permission.
This week we take a look at a new style of building available in Europe called a Wikkelhouse. Surprisingly, they are made from cardboard! The Wikkelhouses are 100% recyclable, 3 times more sustainable than traditional houses, and last for at least 50 years. They are lightweight, requiring no foundation and can be placed in 1
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Consider Me Your Real Estate Resource

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   If you have a question or need related to real estate, I want you to know that you can ask me for help or information anytime. If you’re looking to buy
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Pumpkin Village

Another kind of gourd house by Allen Sheffield is licensed under CC BY 2.0
This week’s Crazy Building is not just one, but a whole village! The Pumpkin Village can be found once a year at the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden. The Arboretum is located next to the White Rock Lake and is situated on 66 acres of land. In 2016 they had over 1 million visitors from
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This Week’s Crazy Building: MoPOP

EMP Museum by philstyle is licensed under CC BY 2.0
The Museum of Pop Culture or MoPOP is located in Seattle, Washington. Among its archives are the largest collections of Jimi Hendrix and Nirvana memorabilia. This unique building has become a part of Seattle and aims to bring people together through their common connection in pop culture. Designed by Frank Gehry the building itself was
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Know the 7 Steps to Selling Your Home

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   What are the seven steps to selling your home? Today, I’ll walk you through each of them. Hopefully, this will give you a better idea of what the process looks like.
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Story Time With Gary: Outnumbered at a Staging Class

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   Today’s story takes us back years ago when I took a home staging class. At this class, there were about 30 to 35 people in attendance. Other than myself, the class
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This Week’s Crazy Building: House In The Clouds

Thorpeness 13-5-2004 by Martin Pettitt is licensed under CC BY 2.0
House In The Clouds is located in Thorpeness, England. This type of building is termed a “folly” and is a building made for purely decorative or conversational purpose. Follies were especially prevalent in England in the 18th century. In the early 1900’s Glencairn Stuart Ogilvie came up with the idea to develop the whole town
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You Should Insist Your Agent Offends You

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   When selling your home, you’ll eventually have your agent over to your house so they can take a look at it and give you their advice on how best to sell
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This Week’s Crazy Building: The Interlace

Photo by chuttersnap on Unsplash
Although at first glance it can look a bit haphazard, The Interlace, in Singapore was designed very thoughtfully. Architect Ole Scheeren’s concept behind the 1,040 apartment structure was to bring the residents together and allow them to connect. The city’s original vision for the project would have been several buildings in the traditional vertical arrangement.
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