Just in time for Halloween, personal finance website Credit Sesame has compiled 11 ways different cultures around the world design their homes to keep evil spirits away. Some ghost-proofing methods may sound familiar (avoiding the 13th floor, nailing a horseshoe to a door), but others are not as well-known. For example, curving roofs or curving driveways are believed to [...]
A little bit of light watching with your afternoon cup of tea….. a headstrong agent…. and some unique selling features!
This private sale advert on trademe gave me a little smile. I’ve nothing against someone wanting to try and sell their own home themselves, but a touch of proof reading may have been helpful. Admittedly, the spelling mistake caught my eye and made me view the property, maybe that isn’t such a bad thing? Note [...]
In an amazing moment of life imitating art, a team of scientists and engineers recreated a scene in Disney’s animated film “Up” where a massive bouquet of balloons lifts a house sky-high. The stunt was filmed for a new National Geographic Channel series called “How Hard Can It Be,”. So how hard was it? “Very difficult [...]
Two female real estate agents came to blows over the sale of an apartment in a fight that left both with minor injuries – and a fine. City Sales agent Hulan Feng and LJ Hooker Ponsonby agent Soon Lee were both trying to sell an apartment in Auckland’s inner city when a physical fight broke [...]
Just in time for Zombie awareness month, the ideal Zombie Proof home has been found. This home wakens and opens with the dawn and closes up at the end of the day to seal against outside threats. For extra security there is a holding room which visitors have to wait in until they are allowed [...]
The list has grown by two in the last couple of weeks. 1) Don’t chase hearses to get business 2) Don’t demonstrate the benefits of a house for sale too intimately These stories remind me of another scenario I heard of a couple of years back where a real estate agent enjoyed a stay with [...]
I came upon a wonderful list on the facebook wall of a vivacious female acquaintance. It gave me a giggle…I have taken the concept and tweaked it for the 60 plus generati0n. Can you make your own list? Acquire a laptop with wireless so I can keep in touch with friends and kids on the [...]
