Posts tagged: property
For Sale: Lance Armstrong's Texas Ranch
By DIY Maven
We all know you can tell a lot about a person by the way he or she chooses to decorate his or her house. What Lance Armstrong's house suggests is that he's the kind of person who likes order and doesn't tolerate b.s. It also suggests that he appreciates luxury of the masculine sort. I wonder if the furnishings are included in the price tag...which was just reduced to 10.5 million.
Property Tax issues
By trbuckleyIndiana is going through a property tax crisis this year. Inaction at the state level led to expiration of certain business taxes, with no reduction in state and local government spending. The result was that the tax burden shifted entirely to homeowners, with some personal residence property tax bills going up hundreds of percent. The property taxes on our home have gone up almost 500% since our first full year in the house, nine years ago. » READ MORE
For Rent: Only $300K a Month
By DIY Maven
Recently, Business Week reported on how the really rich spend as much money for temporary rentals as regular folk spend for entire houses. The report suggests that the willingness of affluent leasers to fork over so much dough is do to the need of interim housing while their mansions are remodeled. Others, like Oprah Winfrey and Robert De Niro, who have been known to drop 40 grand a day for a slice of heaven on Nygard Cay (Bahamas), just want a q » READ MORE
Neighborly dilemma
By badbadivyFriends, Romans, Curbly readers! Lend me your opinion. In my suburb, it's illegal to park on the street. Yeah, I thought that was pretty odd, too. So, instead of parking in the street, most people with more cars than driveway park in the yard.
Now, cars up on blocks in Tennessee are not exactly the oddest thing ever, but people filling their entire yards with cars looks like crap, in my opinion. I'd personally rather navigate around cars in the » READ MORE
