Tag: mikehunter
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Real Estate Success Comes With The Right Buying Strategy
Here are a few of my favorite key ingredients to a success strategy in buying real estate. GET “PRE-APPROVED” Do you want to get the best house you can for the least amount of money? If so (and who doesn’t), make sure you are in the strongest negotiating position possible. Price is only one bargaining… Read more
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How Jack-O-Lanterns got to be made out of Pumpkins in America
Carving Jack-O-Lanterns started over in Europe in the late 1700’s in Ireland England & Scotland. They weren’t originally made from pumpkins but from cultivated turnips called mangelwurzels (orange field beets) hollowed out to act as lanterns and often carved with grotesque faces. When the Irish immigrated to the U.S. in the 1800’s they brought the… Read more
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What came before the deck house? The CORE house.
In the 1950’s & 1960’s some really cool Cambridge architects and builders figured out a way to make and sell a cheap modular house. They built a few of them and marketed them as The core house. It’s a decent first attempt … just limited in size. It featured a central “core” with baths, utilities… Read more