Story Time With Gary: Dude, Where’s My Foreclosure?

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   I’m back with another strange story from my years as a real estate agent. Years ago, there were foreclosures all over San Diego and the country. I had 40 to 50
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A Counterintuitive Home Staging Tip

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   This may or may not apply to you, but if you are selling your home and you have older furniture that you don’t plan on taking to your new house, try
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Parthenon of Books

Marta Minujín- The Parthenon of Books by Heinz Bunse is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
The Parthenon of Books is on display in Kassel, Germany from June to September this year. It is the same size as the actual Parthenon and contains about 100,000 books! The books selected all have one thing in common: they were banned at one point or another, somewhere in the world. Titles include many books
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Icelandic Turf Houses

DSCN3813 by Sara Yeomans is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Part of a tradition in Iceland, the Turf House construction method dates back to the Neolithic period. With grass covered rooves, these homes literally blend into the landscape. The Turf House tradition came from the Norse and British settlers during the 9th through the 11th centuries. It is thought to have begun due to limited
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Bahrain World Trade Center

Bahrain world trade center by Fred Hsu is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Believe it or not, the Bahrain World Trade Center, located in Manama, Bahrain has actually received some awards such as the 2006 LEAF Award for Best Use of Technology within a Large Scheme and the Arab Construction World for Sustainable Design Award. Despite looking like the tips of a giant pair of scissors the design
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Story Time With Gary: Agent in Hot Water

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 have another strange or weird story from my years working in real estate. This week’s story is a pretty short story, but it’s going back several years. A gentleman
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Understanding How People Shop for Homes

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   When I got into real estate in 1984, the way people looked for homes was very, very different from how things are done today. Back then, information was more readily available
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This Week’s Crazy Building: The Inkwell

Voorzijde met kunstwerk 'De UFO' - Utrecht by Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
De Inktpot or the Inkwell, is constructed of over 22 million bricks, making it the largest of its kind in the Netherlands! But that’s not what is truly unique about this structure. Perched at the top of this seemingly everyday building is… a UFO! Built between 1918 and 1921 by the Netherlands Railways, currently, it
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Refuge du Goûter

The new Goûter Hut by Coronium is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0
The Refuge du Goûter, located in the French Alps is perched at about 12,582 feet above sea level. It is a four-story lodging for mountaineers and is one of the highest in Western Europe. It serves as a rest stop on the trek to ascend Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in the Alps and in
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Story Time With Gary: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   Welcome to the latest edition of “Story Time With Gary.” This one was relayed to me by a neighbor who was one of the original homeowners in a housing tract built
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