Phillipe Tournaire’s Dream Houses on Rings

http://pleaserobme.com/

via Gothamist

Can’t we all just get along!!!???

Here’s the link:

Spite Houses, built to piss off the neighbors

Check it out. Here’s the link:

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Dwellicious is entered under the Real Estate web site category.

Wish us luck!!

Maggie Etheridge-Ureno is a Realtor in Orange County California. She just launched a new blog, How Real Estate Works, and if her first post is any indication of what to come than we are all in for a treat.

Many Dwellicious users have heard about the great deals in REO properties and so-called “Short Sales”. Maggie does a great job explaining the “ins and outs” of these types of transactions. Enjoy!

How do Foreclosures and Short Sales work?

With the real estate market as soft as it is, we are getting a lot of questions from tentative buyers about short sales and foreclosures. What is it like to buy one? Are all of them are automatically the smokin’ deals they think they are? … and if not, how can we evaluate which ones really are sound investments?

Let’s take a look at how these types of sales work. Read more….

Nouriel Roubini, co-founder and chairman of RGE monitor

I was at a real estate conference where Mr. Roubini spoke. He was so dour and apocalyptic it made you want to go home and hug you kids! But as this article states he has been pretty dead on with his predictions, unfortunately for some.

Roubini says home prices will fall further
October 09, 2009 11:00AM

U.S. home prices may fall another 10 percent, according to economist Nouriel Roubini, co-founder and chairman of RGE monitor. Roubini, who is widely considered one of the most accurate predictors of the economic crisis, said that the residential market is still unstable and that a shaky commercial industry could compound problems. “The stress is moving from residential mortgages that are still in deep trouble, ….Read More. Via RealDeal [Yahoo!]

Best of all its free! We made it super easy to use in our “Cool Tools” section. Just click on the “Cool Tools button, located on the bottom right of your bookmark.

Today I want to talk about how to use Google Street View to analyze the neighborhood of the home you have bookmarked using Dwellicious.

I’m going to start of with this property:

The Dwellicious Bookmark is here.

Here’s what the Map & Street View look like:

First off, I have to say, isn’t this a great photo of the home itself?? I think it even rivals the photo included on the website you bookmarked the property came (which is typically what the real estate agent uploaded to their MLS). The other thing I notice is that it must have been a windy day when they took the photo, (can you see the sign and how it’s waving in the wind?)

Google Street View is easy to use. All you need to do is click on the photo and move the mouse in the direction you want to see. This makes it easy to check your surrounding area.

If you want to get a front facing view of the house next door just click on the arrows that are overlaid on the street.

Another thing I like to check is what I call the “morning newspaper view”. This is the view you will have from your front door when you pick up the newspaper from your porch. Basically the view of whats directly in front of the home.

This is easy to do in Street View. You just click on the image and drag the mouse until your view does a complete 180 degree turn. If you have done this correctly here’s what you’ll see.

Hmmmm. Looks like you’ve got a “great” view of your potential neighbor’s backyard, and he appears to be a “collector”.

Perhaps a view of blue tarps is not what your looking for? Maybe you should keep your search for a home going a bit longer.

Hopefully you can how Google’s Street View is a great tool in your quest to find your next home.

Happy house hunting!!

For extra credit see what the Street View pops up for this income property recently bookmarked on Dwellicious. (Must be 18 yrs + old)

Oh My!

http://dwellicious.com/remax1/bookmarks/814

This Friday, September 18th, we will be exhibiting at the Sacramento Association of Realtors 2009 Fall Conference. The exhibit hall opens at 9:45AM.

The event will be held at the Radisson Hotel on 500 Leisure Lane in Sacramento.

Dwellicious will be in booth #603.

So all you Realtors using Dwellicious in Sacramento please come by the booth and say hi!

For more details please visit SAR’s website.

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