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Money is available!!! There’s still plenty of mortgage funds available. Kenneth Harney provides all the details in this Los Angeles Times article. To read the original article, click here: Money is available!!!

Must be Seen to be Believed One of our new favorite blogs is LovelyListing — an incredibly entertaining compendium of some of the strangest and most unappealing real estate listing photography you’ll ever see. While you, as a seller, might briefly agonize over whether to include photos of the wal...

The Ugliest House in America Think your house needs remodeling? Vote for the “Ugliest House in America” We all have improvements we’d like to make to our homes — replace the countertops, refinish the floors, put in new landscaping — but few of our lists include “remove twenty-years’ worth of pile...

Not just service, this is magic! Need a project done at home and don’t know who to call? Try ServiceMagic.com! This incredibly useful site lets you put in your contact info, your location, and details about your desired project — anything from minor jobs like installing a light fixture or fixing ...

Restoring a legend - The Hollywood Palladium After a $20-million overhaul, the Hollywood Palladium shines again. “We ripped the roof off the joint, literally,” said Rick Mueller, president of California operations for Live Nation, the concert promotion company that signed a 20-year lease and is h...

Los Angeles Magazine Tell All… The good folks at Los Angeles Magazine break out their Rolodex to help you keep your house in order. From green exterminators to home theater installers, find it all here! If you need any help finding your dream house (or considering the market…investment property!)...

Hollywood Underground Bridal Fashion Show When we took on The Hollywood project, we knew there would be tremendous residential appeal, we never anticipated our property to host a bridal fashion show - especially one like this! On Thursday, the Hollywood Underground Bridal Show will offer an "alte...

How to Insure Your Luxury Home It’s not just current market value that determines how your home is appraised and for how much it’s insured for. A skilled appraiser needs to consider the fine details of your home. Here’s an excerpt from a post by Roberta Murphy (thanks Roberta)… It is important fo...

Explore Architectural Treasure! “To excel in the structuring of a problem we must be committed to a concern for quality in everything in the world around us. We must learn to care deeply.” —Charles Eames from Slide show “Excellence, G.E. M, 1967              In 2004, Lucia Eames and the Eames fam...

Real Estate Agent Caters to Nudist Buyers and Sellers!!! I was interviewed by Inman news about niche marketing. In reading the published article, I wondered what my day would be like (and look like) if my niche was anything like Jackie Youngblood’s. Hmmmmm, I’ll stop wondering now. I’m more than ...