Do you know your neighborhood?
Do you know your neighborhood? No, not that neighborhood. I'm asking whether you know the nearby stars. Here's a cool 3D graphic that provides lots of good information about our solar neighbors.
Banks and Republicans are blocking short-sales of homes
A middle-aged couple who bought a home in my neighborhood are in a terrible situation. They paid too much for their new house, which needed a lot of repairs, and they failed to aggressively work to sell their existing home. Therefore, they now have two houses.
They continue to live in their original home while their new house (two houses away from where I live) has been vacant for three years and it is falling apart. I’m not talking about chipped paint. There are huge holes in the roof that are causing the house to rot out.
Check out the garage roof too:
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People who know a lot about rehabbing houses tell me that if this house and garage don’t get immediate attention, they will need to be completely torn down.
It’s Conflation-mas time!
You'd never know that there was an energy crisis in South St. Louis, based on the extravagant use of Christmas lighting. My family and I walked through one neighborhood that pushed the envelope even further than the usual level of extravagance, drawing dozens of cars. The tradition is apparently to…