Some cool real estate jobs images:
Consulate_1
Image by Allshots Imaging
This is the Consulate Bar in Adelaide, South Australia.
It was my first paid Real Estate job! This bar belongs to a friend-of-a-friend. Comments and critique welcome!
Consulate_5
Image by Allshots Imaging
This is the Consulate Bar in Adelaide, South Australia.
It was my first paid Real Estate job! This bar belongs to a friend-of-a-friend. Comments and critique welcome!
A few nice real estate jobs images I found:
weddingSetup_018
Image by iliveisl
the iliveisl estate donated land for a few weeks to friends of an Enercay resident
they did a great job making a beautiful wedding spot! =)
weddingSetup_013
Image by iliveisl
the iliveisl estate donated land for a few weeks to friends of an Enercay resident
they did a great job making a beautiful wedding spot! =)
Check out these real estate jobs images:
Consulate_2
Image by Allshots Imaging
This is the Consulate Bar in Adelaide, South Australia.
It was my first paid Real Estate job! This bar belongs to a friend-of-a-friend. Comments and critique welcome!
Consulate_6
Image by Allshots Imaging
This is the Consulate Bar in Adelaide, South Australia.
It was my first paid Real Estate job! This bar belongs to a friend-of-a-friend. Comments and critique welcome!
A few nice real estate jobs images I found:
U.S. Cities with Highest Price Reductions Levels (Trulia, Dec 2010)
Image by truliavisuals
Among 50 largest U.S. cities, the ones with the highest price reduction levels include Minneapolis, Mesa, Phoenix, Baltimore and Tucson.
Trulia Price Reduction Report - Dec 2010
Image by truliavisuals
U.S. housing market backtracks with 23% year-over-year rise in price reductions. Contributing factors include the tax credit expiration, mortgage rates, housing inventory and unemployment. Among 50 largest U.S. cities, the ones with the highest price reduction levels include Minneapolis, Mesa, Phoenix, Baltimore and Tucson. In a year-over-year comparison, the U.S. cities with the highest percentage change in price reductions include Fresno, Long Beach, Albuquerque, San Diego and Las Vegas.
Some cool real estate jobs images:
My job for today is to fill up all of this screen real estate with design inspiration. @dribbble here I come.
Image by Al Abut
A few nice real estate jobs images I found:
into the light
Image by buckshot.jones
Light. The word conjures up so many phrases and images we hold in common. It can signify life and death, hope and the final end. Is there light in this city? Over the past few years it seems what little light remained was fading and failing to poke through the economic gloom. Spending much of my life as something of a contrarian, I think that is an indication the light might be at its brightest. You see, once all of the experts and the pundits declare something as settled and final, change is afoot. Detroit is dead, a relic of the 20th century, is how many of these experts would have us believe. They back up their position with reams of data and trend analysis. The problem with all of their facts is they are backward looking. They do an excellent job of placing context around what has happened, but their value in predicting the future is limited, if useful at all.
What cannot be accounted for in economic models is innovation and emotion. I figure if these models offered any type of reliable method for predicting innovation and the next big thing, their work would never be published. Instead they would keep their formula secret and get in on the ground floor of these new industries before the pesky public runs up the price. This all leads to the contrarian in me to say when all seems lost the turn around is probably near. Of course I offer no insight as to the nature of that turn around other than this; at some point housing and real estate in Detroit will become so cheap as to make it a no brainer for a variety of investors and entrepreneurs. We are already witnessing some this as Detroit is becoming something of a magnet for the creative class. This is a good thing. Innovation is often spurred by the renegades amongst us. Innovation leads to new opportunities, new businesses and new jobs. There is a light peaking through the Michigan gloom, it is a creative light.
My Co-Workers and Me, 1991
Image by A.Davey
This is a photo of some of my co-workers and me at Waterfront Park in Portland, Oregon in September, 1991. I'm in the center with the beard.
The occasion was an AIDS fundraising walk. We were all working at US Bancorp Mortgage Company's Real Estate Services division then. The work involved servicing mortgages. Fortunately, this was back when the bad boys who thought up the subprime mortgage mess were still pulling wings off files during recess in elementary school. To her credit, our head boss strongly supported participation in the fundraising event.
I wonder where the rest of the gang is now. I left this affiliate for a job with the parent company about two years after this photo was taken.
Some time after that, the corporate parent shut down or sold US Bancorp Mortgage Company. Any of the people in this photo who were still with Real Estate Services had to find work elsewhere. I know several of them found jobs in other parts of the US Bancorp enterprise.
Then, in 1997, First Bank Systems of Minneapolis acquired US Bancorp. First Bank Systems already had one of me in their HQ, so I received a golden parasol (you know, the kind that comes in Mai Tais), a gig with a terrific outplacement company (really) and was sent on my way.
The wheel of fortune turned again a few years later when the combined First Bank/US Bank enterprise was acquired by another bank holding company, an event I can only hope resulted in making some of the people who ousted us pound the pavement looking for new jobs.
On the whole, the folks in this photo, and scores of others not shown here, were a really nice group of people to have worked with.
A few nice real estate jobs images I found:
I do see some beautiful sights on my job...these are all views from some of my #Maine listings...
Image by Dana Moos
Posted via email from danamoos.posterous.com/i-do-see-some-beautiful-sights-on-...
A few nice real estate jobs images I found:
weddingSetup_020
Image by iliveisl
the iliveisl estate donated land for a few weeks to friends of an Enercay resident
they did a great job making a beautiful wedding spot! =)
weddingSetup_008
Image by iliveisl
the iliveisl estate donated land for a few weeks to friends of an Enercay resident
they did a great job making a beautiful wedding spot! =)
Elizabeth Raines- Keller Williams Ann Arbor team leader
Image by Andypiper
Interrupting her again. Elizabeth is doing a great job keeping the office humming with excitement.
Check out these real estate jobs images:
www.loftinmaine.com
Image by Josh and Melanie Rosenthal
The loft is finally done. Renovation and design is complete... but now jobs are unexpectedly taking us out of the area. Have a deep appreciation for historic buildings and modern design? Visit us at www.loftinmaine.com
Orange Ball
Image by Neil Kremer
This is a little lagoon in Long Beach, CA.
I'm not sure why it;s there but I just got my camera sensor cleaned and needed a place to test it. The cleaning job was terrible. I spent hours with my old friend "clone stamp tool" after this day of shooting. I really need a new camera. That D300 is a great deal at 9 but the inventory is diminishing and the prices are already going up as availability decreases. Thunder Cameras had it at 9 2 days ago and now it's 9. I'm not cheap by any means but come on.
Some cool real estate jobs images:
Charleston, Cumberland Street
Image by hdes.copeland
“Good architecture becomes ruins, bad architecture disappears.” – Salmona
Cumberland Street Parking Garage, Charleston, SC. Photo taken July 2008.
Another example of architects and their egos running in overdrive. Far from anti traditionalist ideas of form follows function, there is little or no logical reason for placing what has been described as an aluminum pergola with a ski jump on the roof of a concrete parking garage in the flat coastal plains of tropical Charleston. The solid concrete block and stucco walls of the structure, is a pastiche of traditional architectural elements misapplied to a massive industrial building located within one of the historic city's most sensitive lines of convergence between its pre-colonial residential neighborhoods and the heart of Charleston's 19th century commercial district. A late 20th century traffic terminus designed for use by a uniquely 20th century private traffic conveyance has been wedged along this line between historic neighborhoods that once blended seamlessly.
Charleston County's parking garage is more than an intrusion; it has become a fortress in the Maginot Line of contemporary buildings recently constructed that have lately ignored the city's long history of harmonious design and compatible use. Many of these are large institutional buildings being built with public funds throughout Charleston's historic district which divide neighborhoods that once were connected logically. Many private developers have followed suit.
Structures that defy historic uses and uniquely designed to address temporary market demands of a single user such as a massive parking garage are the instruments being used to Balkanize once well integrated urban neighborhoods. At least as much as speculative gentrification has helped to depopulate the urban core, these huge structures largely devoid of people, have become architectural wastelands driven largely by efforts to accommodate a single mode of private commuter transportation. These buildings and their developers are vast consumers of real estate that contribute little directly to the local tax base and less to the local job market. Some observers have even called them crime magnets because they are automobile warehouses which offer little to encourage people to congregate near them which would otherwise have provided a mutual sense of safety in numbers to pedestrians who might pass through.
Almost as an architectural apology, this design on a narrow street with sidewalks almost too narrow to negotiate, offers fake window openings. It was designed to allude to, if not mimic, Georgian, Adamesque and Regency fenestrations found nearby. So much for the BAR, preservation experts and the city design staff not subscribing to cartoons of historic architecture. Then as if to placate the gods of modernism and those who demand the populist graffiti known as architecture of our time, the aluminum roof feature has been inserted as an afterthought. Other than offering limited shade to an otherwise barren concrete roof desert, it highlights the location of the building's elevator tower and stairwell.
How temporary is this facility in an era that is calling for better and more diverse means of urban transportation? How viable is a city policy that requires a parking space to building size ratio? How should local design and use policies be as public transportation alternatives are beginning to be promoted by federal and private sectors? Why not require average trips to building use or density ratios that can be mitigated by the availability of transportation alternatives? Only then will massive parking garages and car mausoleums like this one be widely recognized as obsolete.
In the mean time large urban parking garages like this one remain intrusive and culturally destructive anachronisms waiting for local governments and the general market to see them as interim uses of otherwise valuable land that could be better used. These multi-level parking lots might be financially viable on a very temporary time line and, even then, only considering them as part of a very narrow segment of the market.
Architecturally large parking garages that consume long stretches of commercial within the urban core can only be considered as temporary buildings with engineering characteristics so restrictive they cannot be easily recycled or redesigned for adaptive reuse. These structures are in a word the landfill of the future. The lands they occupy are almost as unreachable as a cemetery, at least from a redevelopment standpoint. But unlike cemeteries, these car mausoleums don't even provide contemplative green spaces at the edges or from within.
A few L.E.E.D. certified structures might be an exception with their Green Roof designs, but these are exceptions by far and no such design or retrofit has been considered for inclusion among Charleston's shrinking catalogue of American architecture.
Photo posted: July 2008
Text posted: 12 July 2009
Watergate Complex from TR Bridge
Image by dbking
The Watergate complex is an office-apartment-hotel complex built in 1967 in northwest Washington, D.C., best known for being the site of burglaries that led to the Watergate scandal and the resignation of President Richard Nixon
Location
The Watergate complex is a superblock bounded on the north by Virginia Avenue, on the east by New Hampshire Avenue, on the south by F Street, and on the west by the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway. It is in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood overlooking the Potomac River, adjacent to the Kennedy Center and the embassy of Saudi Arabia. The nearest Metro station is Foggy Bottom-GWU.
History
The Watergate complex was developed by the Italian firm Società Generale Immobiliare, which purchased the 10 acres which constitute the plot of land on the defunct Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in the early 1960s for 10 million US Dollars. Italian architect Luigi Moretti designed the six buildings on the site: a hotel, two office buildings, three apartment buildings and a retail center.
Individual buildings at the Watergate
The Watergate Hotel is located at 2650 Virginia Avenue NW. It has 250 guest rooms and 146 suites. In 2004, the hotel was purchased by a company planning to turn it into luxury co-ops.
The two Watergate Office Buildings are at 600 New Hampshire Avenue NW and 2600 Virginia Avenue NW.
In 1972, the Democratic National Committee had its headquarters on the sixth floor of the 11-story 2600 Virginia Avenue building. On May 28, 1972, a team of burglars working for Nixon's re-election campaign put wiretaps and took photos in and near the DNC chairman's office. The wiretaps were monitored from Room 723 of the Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge hotel across the street at 2601 Virginia Avenue NW. (The hotel is now owned by the George Washington University, although no longer used as a undergraduate dormitory.) During a second burglary on June 17, 1972, to replace a malfunctioning "bug" and collect more information, five burglars were arrested and the Watergate scandal began to unfold.
The Watergate Office Building was sold in 2005 by Trizec Properties to Bentley Forbes, a Los Angeles-based real estate investment firm run by Fred Wehba, for .5 million. The complex, consisting of the buildings at 2500, 2600, and 2650 Virginia Ave. NW and 600 and 700 New Hampshire Ave. NW, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 21, 2005.
The three Watergate Apartment buildings total some 600 residential units. Past occupants have included Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Bob and Elizabeth Dole, Monica Lewinsky, Betty Currie, and Paul O'Neill. Current Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice now lives in the Watergate.
There is a small (63,000 sq. ft. / 5900 m²) retail center which offers a Safeway supermarket in the basement level and several upscale shops and restaurants at street level.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Monica Lewinsky moves out of Watergate
WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, October 14, 1998)
Monica Lewinsky is moving out of her Watergate residence and apologizing to neighbors for any trouble her newfound media attention may have caused them.
Lewinsky placed a printed note under the doors of fellow residents of the Watergate South this week informing them of her departure.
The location of her new residence, which has not been confirmed, is believed to be away from the Washington area.
The posh downtown condominium complex has several other well-known tenants, including former Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole and his wife.
"As I depart 700 New Hampshire, I wanted to apologize for the inconveniences of the past nine months. To those of you who have passed along your kind words, I greatly appreciated your support during this difficult time; and I thank you. I hope you all know how very sorry I am that so much attention was brought to the building," she wrote.
Lewinsky signed the notes "Monica" by hand, her spokeswoman Judy Smith said.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Watergate: The name that branded more than a building
Washington Business Journal -
June 14, 2002
by Mike Livingston Contributing Writer
Some buildings in Washington earn a place in history by housing future presidents, some by reflecting influential architects and the growth of a world capital, and some just by standing there as governments, industries, even centuries come and go.
The mixed-use complex next to the old canal "water gate" at the mouth of Rock Creek owes its place in history to a little piece of masking tape that sealed, 30 years ago this month, the lock on a door and the fate of a president.
It was Suite 600 of the Watergate Hotel that burglars on the White House payroll entered around 2 a.m. June 17, 1972, to gather information about President Nixon's opponents. The Democratic National Committee (DNC) had leased the suite.
The ensuing scandal led to the imprisonment of top West Wingers and the only presidential resignation -- and it made the name "Watergate" synonymous with political scandal and investigative journalism.
Despite what "Watergate" has come to mean in the popular mind, it remains for many others what its developers intended it to be: a prestigious address for offices, shops, restaurants, residents and hotel guests.
Watergate Towne
The five curving towers of "Watergate Towne" were the city's first major international real estate development -- the vision of Hungarian-born developer Nicholas Salgo and his Italian firm, Societa Generale Immobiliare (SGI), based in Rome and owned in part by the Vatican.
The Italian Count di Carpegna was a project architect on SGI's staff, and the Countess de Rochefort was a sales representative for the Watergate East apartment cooperative. (The countess once commissioned Avignon Frères, the now-defunct French bakery in Adams Morgan, to make a 50-pound cake with 13 layers in the likeness of the 13-story building.)
SGI bought the 10-acre site from Washington Gas for million, thinking it would soon be served by a freeway. The Washington Star, whose archives provided much of the information for this article, noted in 1962 the plans called for "curvilinear buildings designed to conform with the curving Inner Loop Expressway at this point."
When models of the futuristic high-rises were unveiled by 1961, critics and zoning commissioners said the complex would ruin the waterfront and overshadow the performing arts center nearby, which was then on the drawing boards and would later be named after President Kennedy. The National Capital Planning Commission, according to a 1961 report in the Star, questioned "whether the site should be developed at all."
The Star thought so. A May 1962 editorial stated: "It is true that the so-called `curvilinear' design is at variance with most commercial architecture in Washington. But in our opinion the result, which places a premium on public open space and garden-like surroundings, and which proposes a quality of housing that would rank with the finest in the city, would be a distinct asset."
Later that month, the White House urged the developer to accept a 90-foot height limit instead of the planned 130 feet.
Salgo and SGI's chief architect, Gabor Acs, flew to New York City with professor Luigi Moretti of the University of Rome to defend their designs in a special meeting with the federal Commission of Fine Arts, whose approval is required for any construction in the "Monumental Core." In the end, SGI was allowed to build 25 percent of the complex to 13 stories.
Moretti, who had designed the Montreal Stock Exchange and Rome's Olympic Village for the 1960 Games, served as a consulting architect. The Washington architecture firm of Corning, Moore, Elmore & Fisher also worked with the SGI staff architects. The builder was Magazine Bros. Construction.
'White House West'
Work began in August 1963 with the groundbreaking for the headquarters of Riverview Realty, the leasing agent for the 200,000 square feet of office space planned in the complex.
The first tower, Watergate East, was believed to be the first major construction job to make significant use of computers. A forerunner of modern computer-aided drafting (CAD) technology was employed in plans for 8,000 square feet of irregular windows and 2,200 irregular wall panels.
In 1964, Jim Roberts of Magazine Bros. told the Star: "We had to face the fact that there are no continuous straight lines anywhere -- horizontally on the floors or vertically on the facade. Not only were there many different curves on every floor, but no two floors had a facade exactly alike."
Watergate East was dedicated in October 1965.
Earlier that year, the Star told future owners of tower's 238 co-ops that the complex "will feature an elaborate electronic security system" including closed-circuit televisions, two-way radios and a 24-hour security staff. "What all of this means," the paper noted, "is that intruders will have difficulty getting onto the grounds undetected."
Peoples Drug (now CVS) and Safeway opened stores in the courtyard in 1965 that are still there today, along with a bakery, liquor store and other courtyard shops.
Watergate West, the second residential building, was started in June 1967 and completed within two years.
Landscape architect Boris Timchenko planted flowering trees and filled 150 planters. Tiers of fountains in the courtyard provide the sound of waterfalls. Townhouse-style units line the first two floors; top-floor units feature private rooftop terraces and fireplaces.
In June 1969, the Star reported the co-ops were especially popular with high-ranking members of the new administration: "Watergate's two completed apartment buildings have become widely known as a magnet that pulls many Nixon aides home."
With a quarter of the Cabinet -- Attorney General John Mitchell, Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans and Transportation Secretary John Volpe -- living at Watergate, along with dozens of White House staffers including presidential secretary Rose Mary Woods, the complex was nicknamed "Administration Arms" and "White House West."
Showcase for a Scandal
The hotel opened in 1967 and featured an upscale restaurant, the Roman Terrace. The DNC and other office tenants leased space in the hotel as early as April 1967.
The Watergate 600 office tower, specially zoned for nonprofit and professional occupancy, signed its first tenant, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, in February 1971, and its first "major" tenant soon afterward: the Manpower Evaluation & Development Institute, which leased the whole eighth floor.
In October 1972, a strip of fashion boutiques and jewelers opened under the name Les Champs. The 13,000 square feet of retail drew tenants such as Gucci, Yves St. Laurent and, according to the Star, "the only boutique in this country which exclusively features Soviet-made goods."
Manager Henry Winston warned Les Champs retailers not to exploit the scandal that had erupted from the DNC break-in; however, by the fall of 1973, the shops drew heavy traffic from curious tourists and scandal buffs. Winston asked five shops to leave within their first year, he told the paper, because "the appearance and type of their merchandise was not up to standards or their volume was too low, and none of them seemed improvable."
Other break-ins, other scandals
The first Watergate break-in was a residential burglary, in 1969, in which jewelry and a papal medal were stolen from an apartment. Ironically, the victim was Woods, the Nixon secretary who would later be accused of erasing 18 and a half minutes of incriminating evidence from one of the president's secret tapes.
In 1973, burglars stole 0 from an office suite leased by the Italian Embassy.
And in 1975, perhaps the nation's most influential jurist below the Supreme Court -- Chief Judge David L. Bazelon of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit -- and his wife returned from Christmas vacation to find ,000 worth of jewelry missing from their apartment.
For many residents, the real Watergate scandal was the allegedly shoddy construction of the 143-unit Watergate West apartment building. In 1972, residents sued SGI for .5 million, citing water damage in 40 percent of the units, plumbing problems in 22 percent, malfunctioning kitchen appliances in 45 percent, and inadequate air conditioning.
SGI filed a counterclaim of million for "malicious embarrassment" and, after five years of litigation, paid 0,000 in a settlement.
Toward the end of the century, Watergate showed up again in stories about a scandal-ridden presidency: It was the home of Clinton White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
'A delicious irony'
The Watergate's original developer, Salgo, partnered with Chicago-based Continental Illinois Properties to buy SGI's stake for million in 1977. Two years later, the company sold its interest to subsidiaries of the British Coal Board Pension Fund; Salgo kept his own shares until 1986 and then sold to the coal board.
In what The Washington Post called "a delicious irony for the father of the Watergate," in 1989 the Bush administration tapped Salgo, a former diplomat, for a task force to dispose of the U.S. embassy in Moscow because it was infested with electronic bugs.
Several real estate transfers in recent years have resulted in new, multiple owners of the buildings in the Watergate complex. The hotel now bears a Swissotel flag.
The apartments still attract VIP residents, notably Bob and Elizabeth Dole and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg.
The Watergate's most historically significant office tenant, however, moved out long ago. The DNC, within weeks after the break-in, transferred the bulk of its staff and files to George McGovern's presidential campaign headquarters at 19th and K streets NW. The committee kept a minimal presence in the infamous suite -- which was allegedly bugged again four months later -- until its lease expired in January 1973. The 16,000 square feet of history were leased to the National Academy of Sciences in August 1974.
Mike Livingston is a Washington-based freelance writer.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Some cool real estate jobs images:
I do see some beautiful sights on my job...these are all views from some of my #Maine listings...
Image by Dana Moos
Posted via email from danamoos.posterous.com/i-do-see-some-beautiful-sights-on-...
I do see some beautiful sights on my job...these are all views from some of my #Maine listings...
Image by Dana Moos
Posted via email from danamoos.posterous.com/i-do-see-some-beautiful-sights-on-...
I do see some beautiful sights on my job...these are all views from some of my #Maine listings...
Image by Dana Moos
Posted via email from danamoos.posterous.com/i-do-see-some-beautiful-sights-on-...
A few nice real estate jobs images I found:
Rich Richenberg
Image by Alan Light
Video taken July 1996. Rich Richenberg.
Rich Richenberg was a decorated Air Force officer. He received a commendation during the Persian Gulf war for detecting and countering an enemy threat. The nature of the threat remains classified.
In 1993 Captain Richenberg was ranked among the top 10% of Air Force officers. He came out as gay to his commander. Discharge hearings began that year, and a board recommended a general discharge. The expulsion took effect in December, 1995 and was upheld in appellate court. The Supreme Court, without comment, refused to hear his appeal.
In recent years he sold real estate and held a variety of other jobs.
Rich took his life on or about May 20, 2011.
Rich Richenberg R. I. P.
Image by Alan Light
Photo taken Sept. 21, 1996
Rich Richenberg was a decorated Air Force officer. He received a commendation during the Persian Gulf war for detecting and countering an enemy threat. The nature of the threat remains classified.
In 1993 Captain Richenberg was ranked among the top 10% of Air Force officers. He came out as gay to his commander. Discharge hearings began that year, and a board recommended a general discharge. The expulsion took effect in December, 1995 and was upheld in appellate court. The Supreme Court, without comment, refused to hear his appeal.
In recent years he sold real estate and held a variety of other jobs.
Rich took his life on or about May 20, 2011.
Rich Richenberg R. I. P.
Image by Alan Light
Photo taken Sept. 21, 1996
Rich Richenberg was a decorated Air Force officer. He received a commendation during the Persian Gulf war for detecting and countering an enemy threat. The nature of the threat remains classified.
In 1993 Captain Richenberg was ranked among the top 10% of Air Force officers. He came out as gay to his commander. Discharge hearings began that year, and a board recommended a general discharge. The expulsion took effect in December, 1995 and was upheld in appellate court. The Supreme Court, without comment, refused to hear his appeal.
In recent years he sold real estate and held a variety of other jobs.
Rich took his life on or about May 20, 2011.
A few nice real estate jobs images I found:
weddingSetup_024
Image by iliveisl
the iliveisl estate donated land for a few weeks to friends of an Enercay resident
they did a great job making a beautiful wedding spot! =)
weddingSetup_009
Image by iliveisl
the iliveisl estate donated land for a few weeks to friends of an Enercay resident
they did a great job making a beautiful wedding spot! =)
weddingSetup_011
Image by iliveisl
the iliveisl estate donated land for a few weeks to friends of an Enercay resident
they did a great job making a beautiful wedding spot! =)
Some cool real estate jobs images:
Talking with Timothy Manley
Image by Viewminder
I was looking forward to a long night of street shooting on Saturday night.
Things started off slow... I'd had a tough week... a lot of conflict... I wasn't feelin' it... I wasn't making contact with the 'street.'
It was my attitude... my mindset.
You can't connect with people when you're feeling like that.
I needed an 'adjustment.'
Somehow fate that night led me to meet Timothy Manley.
Let me tell you that I'm truly grateful for that encounter.
Timothy Manley talked some sense into me... he helped me to fix my attitude and our long and soulful conversation touched me deep inside my psyche.
TImothy Manley lives on Michigan Avenue.
Some of the priciest real estate on earth.
He sleeps on two milk crates.
I've always said that 'I don't shoot the homeless.'
I don't want to create images of people down on their luck.
TImothy Manley isn't down on his luck... he's right around the corner from a breakthrough.
I could feel it last night and so could he.
Timothy's been homeless for three hundred and ninety five days on the night that we met.
He's got it written down in his bible.
When I met him I had no idea he was homeless.
He was perfectly dressed... better than me actually... impeccably groomed... he's a very proud man.
I told Timothy that he smelled good... 'that's my cologne... I get it from Macy's' he said 'the testers... they're free.'
He 'bathes' in the sink at a fast food place every day.
I'm completely inspired by this guy... I'm inspired by how he can keep his attitude so positive in the face of the existence he's living at the moment.
What he's going through would crush most people like an empty aluminum can underneath the foot of an angry elephant.
It hasn't crushed Timothy Manley.
I believe this guy's right around the corner from turning things around.
I told him he needs to write a book... to share the lessons he's learned living on the street with everyone in these tough times.
Those lessons helped me right there.
He won't sleep at the shelter.
'They have bedbugs there' he said.
I asked him what the hardest thing about life for him right now was.
'Asking people for money... I just want a job.'
And his reading glasses are broken... he needs new reading glasses. And a bus pass.
He asked me to help him out with dinner but I didn't have any cash... so I asked him what he wanted to eat.
'Mac Donalds double Fillet-O-Fish sandwich' he said.
'Let's go man' I replied.
We walked six or seven blocks to the McDonalds talking all the way.
It was a fascinating and inspiring conversation... both ways and at dinner.
I was feelin' down about some things in my life and my talk with Timothy set me straight.
Dinner was the least I could do and I would have taken him anywhere.
When I paid at the McDonalds a check for ,000 fell out of my pocket and onto the floor... Timothy picked it up... looked at it and handed it back to me.
He's a decent and honest man.
I'd really like to help him get a job.
I'd like to see the man have a bed and a roof.
The guy is intelligent and he'd be great in a position where he worked with the public... he's very well spoken and he's got the 'magic mojo.'
We spent almost two hours talking and eating together.
Timothy Manley... I've got a feeling that things are gonna change for you my friend.
It truly was my pleasure to make your acquaintence.
You're a good man.
You need to write that book.
Thanks for everything.
Laughing Man
BEACHFRONT APTS ALONG PCH IN 1960S SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Image by roberthuffstutter
The daze of wine and sand...One way to remember Venice, California of the sixties. There was always something happening somewhere in town or on the beach. There was the Gashouse, the Venice West Cafe, the Rendevoux or Merry-Go-Round bar. Finding a place to stay in Venice was never a problem. And once one had a job, the selection of places was much better.
Check out these real estate jobs images:
Top 10 Cities to Buy vs. Rent - Q1 2011
Image by truliavisuals
According to Trulia's Q1 2011 Rent vs. Buy Index, the following cities are more affordable to buy than to rent a two-bedroom apartment, condo or townhouse: Miami, Las Vegas, Arlington, Mesa, Phoenix, Jacksonville, Sacramento, San Antonio, Fresno, El Paso.
Rent vs. Buy Interactive Graph - Q1 2011
Image by truliavisuals
Screenshot of the bottom half of Trulia's interactive Rent vs. Buy map. Click to trulia.movity.com/rentvsbuy to check it out.
glassyReflection_008
Image by iliveisl
Ener Hax did a fabulous job with the catacombs. it's so nice to have someone that loves to build so much. not just for the obvious reasons of adding value and a unique flair to a sim, but also to allow the creative side of sl to be unleashed.
