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Entries Tagged as 'Real Estate Oddities'

Architecture That Looks Good Enough to Eat

October 24th, 2008 · No Comments

Halloween is just around the corner and found these photos on Worth1000 featuring some stunning examples of edible architecture. They were too delicious looking to pass up. Here’s some with a Halloween theme: and here’s some other curious and creative works of edible architecture

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A New Way to Beat the Heat in SW Orlando

October 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Photo By Phelan M. Ebenhack A bar that opened last week on International Drive is giving a new meaning to having a drink on the rocks. Everything at the newly opened Icebar is completely made of ice and I mean everything including the couch, chairs, walls, bars, glasses, sculptures, and even the fireplace. It’s literally [...]

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Buy a Dollhouse and Get the Real House for Free

September 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment

A slumping housing market means you need to come up with creative marketing ideas to sell homes and I think this idea by a Michigan couple trying to sell their home for retirement is ingenious. They’ve put up a replica of their home for sale in the form of a dollhouse for $169,000 and as [...]

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Buy a House Including the Wife or Is It Buy a Wife Including the House?

June 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I can’t figure out if this is a clever marketing scheme or a wacky idea. A real estate agent named Deven Trabosh is including herself in the sale price of her home in Palm Beach Gardens on Ebay and Craigslist. The headline on the ad reads “Mary a Princess Lost in America”. Bidding starts at [...]

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Literally Living in a Shell

May 19th, 2008 · No Comments

If you’re one of those people who’d like to consider your house a work of art, you may be interested in the Nautilus House created by bioarchitect Javier Senosiain in 2006. It truly is a work of art, although you may want to make a little less of a statement. It’s definitely not gonna go [...]

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Does Sex Rent?

April 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I noticed this video on the Sellsius blog and I’d say it peaked my interest. Some developers in L.A. are using window dancers to lure potential tenants. They sure do things different out west.

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A Place to Vent About Rotten Neighbors

March 5th, 2008 · No Comments

Let me just come out and say that my neighbors are wonderful, but I have had some ones with some kind of problem or just outright weird. I’ve thought about doing something like this to them but really I’m a peaceful man. There’s a new site called rottenneighbor.com where you can let the world know [...]

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A Home That’s Smaller Than My Bedroom

February 10th, 2008 · No Comments

The Tumbleweed Tiny House Company has been designing and building tiny homes averaging about 120 square feet since 1997. Most of the designs can be placed on a trailer and offers an alternative to classic Winnebago. Imagine the looks you’d get pulling one of these bad boys to a tailgate party or trailer park. I [...]

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A Home With a Push of a Button

December 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

Having a home can be as easy as a push of a button. The Illy Push Button Home designed by Adam Kalkin is a home built within a shipping container. You press a button and in 90 seconds, viola. The container transforms into a home complete with a kitchen, dining area, bedroom, living room, and [...]

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Today is Halloween

October 31st, 2007 · No Comments

It’s Halloween today but I bet this one will still be difficult to sell. Perhaps with the right price and marketing? Or…. maybe not.

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