Don’t Hire Your Barber to Sell 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   About 10 years ago, I was talking to someone about a house that he had inherited. When he mentioned that he wanted to sell it, he said, “I’m probably going to use
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Union of Romanian Architects

Union of Romanian Architects 1 by Joe Mabel is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
The Union of Romanian Architects, located in Bucharest, Romania was originally built by Grigore Paucescu at the end of the 1800s. Its unusual appearance can possibly be attributed to a current trend of adding modern components to historic buildings, in this case, taken to the extreme! Between World War I and World War II, thanks
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How to Get Your Offer Accepted in This Market

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   You may be aware of this already, but we are still in a hot seller’s market here in San Diego. There is heavy competition out there for buyers, so a lot
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Things to Know Before You Buy a Condo

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   There are a few specific things you’ll want to know before buying a condo. For starters, you get more for your money, which isn’t news to most people. Buying a 3-bedroom,
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Story Time With Gary: Things You Can Learn at a Supermarket

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   It’s time for another edition of “Story Time With Gary.” Today I have a story to share with you that goes to show that anyone can surprise you, even your own
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This Week’s Crazy Building: De Rotterdam

Erasmusbrug & De Rotterdam by Jeroen Looyé is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
De Rotterdam, at about 525,000 square feet is the largest building in the Netherlands. Designed with offices, apartments, a hotel, fitness facilities, shops, and restaurants this “vertical city” has it all! This makes sense as the port of Rotterdam is the largest in Europe. The unusual design, which reminds me a bit of a game
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This Week’s Crazy Building: The Windowless Wonder

Buffalo City Court Building, 1971-74, Pfohl, Roberts and Biggie by sah1365 is licensed under CC BY 2.0
The Windowless Wonder or known by its real name the Buffalo City Court Building, designed by Pfohl, Roberts, and Biggie has been called by some the “epitome of Brutalist architecture.” With its modular design and exposed concrete exterior, it closely follows the Brutalist style, characterized by fortress-like structures, and exposed concrete construction. Brick construction has
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The San Diego Market Is on Fire—Still!

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 here with your San Diego real estate market update. I may sound like a broken record because we are still breaking records. The San Diego market is on fire, and
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Metropol Parasol

Metropol Parasol by Sevilla Congress & Convention Bureau is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
The Metropol Parasol located in La Encarnación square in Seville, Spain, merges modern with ancient. A market has existed on this site since the 19th century. The square was renovated several times since then and in 1990 an underground parking lot was set to be constructed. The project came to a halt, however, when ancient
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This Week’s Crazy Building: NASA Vehicle Assembly Building

Aerial View of Launch Complex by NASA is used under public domain
The NASA Vehicle Assembly Building, located in Titusville, Florida has appeared as a backdrop in such movies as Apollo 13 and Contact. At 526 feet tall it is America’s tallest building outside of an urban area and it is one of the largest buildings in the world by volume at 129,428,000 cubic feet. It is
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