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Jun. 17, 2009 - 'apartment' or 'loft' / sometimes you just have to laugh


still getting used to the new listing system, but smiling on occasion
My new mantra is if 'change is good', why is transition so hard? I offer that thought as a transition to this nugget in the Corcoran data-base that caught my eye. I am still not sure what The Rules are (there must be some, right?) for classifying "lofts" in the system, but this (internal) history about a downtown condo conversion from early in this century (definitely a "loft", to my Manhattan Loft Guy eyes, due to its prior non-residential use, interior columns and relative scarcity of load-bearing walls) shows a little ... ambivalence:

1/21/2004      Bldg Type: From Apartment to Loft
1/21/2004      Bldg Type: From Loft to Apartment
12/3/2003      Bldg Type: From Apartment to Loft
10/22/2003    Bldg Type: From Loft to Apartment
10/17/2003    Bldg Type: From Apartment to Loft

(grin) At least no one has tried to change it since then....

 


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Jun. 17, 2009 - RE: 'apartment' or 'loft' / sometimes you just have to laugh

Posted by evani dale

Peter Schiff talks real estate on radio USA. He takes a pretty hard line on people who are trying to buy homes they simply can’t afford, Schiff claims nobody is going to make any money in real estate for at least a decade.  The bottom of the market is still a long way off but prices will level off and at some point in the future real estate will once again be a good investment, we simply are not there yet. Houses could fall as much as 80% from the high prices we have seen recently. And this is amazing - 60% of people don’t know that there homes are worth less than they were 12 months ago!

evani

<a href="http://www.fastrealestate.net/usa/?p=107">Fort Lauderdale Real Estate</a>
 

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Jun. 17, 2009 - RE: 'apartment' or 'loft' / sometimes you just have to laugh

Posted by evani dale

Peter Schiff talks real estate on radio USA. He takes a pretty hard line on people who are trying to buy homes they simply can’t afford, Schiff claims nobody is going to make any money in real estate for at least a decade.  The bottom of the market is still a long way off but prices will level off and at some point in the future real estate will once again be a good investment, we simply are not there yet. Houses could fall as much as 80% from the high prices we have seen recently. And this is amazing - 60% of people don’t know that there homes are worth less than they were 12 months ago!

evani

[url="http://www.fastrealestate.net/usa/?p=107"]Fort Lauderdale Real Estate [/url]
 

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