Real Estate Oddities category archives

Update (11/17/09): A Canadian firm has submitted the winning bid of $583,000 for Silverdome.
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Obviously, it’s not a residential property, but it’s a headline we couldn’t pass up: the Pontiac Silverdome, which has hosted dignitaries, celebrities and events such as the Pope, the Super Bowl, and Hulk Hogan, is on the auction block in which [...]

Frank Lloyd Wright’s architectural masterpiece Fallingwater has been named one of the “28 Places to See Before You Die” by Smithsonian magazine and now fans have an opportunity to experience one of the most famous homes in America in a whole new way.

As part of a new program, Insight Onsite at Fallingwater, up to eight people at [...]

Are you a home buyer closing on a home in the next 1-4 months who is looking for your 15 minutes of fame? If you are eager to get in front of the camera and have a great story to tell about your real estate search experience, then this is your lucky day!
A national broadcast [...]

Cheronda Guyton, the Wells Fargo senior vice president who used a bank-owned Malibu house for parties, has been fired, according to Huffington Post. The home is located at 106 Malibu Colony Rd, Malibu, CA.  Guyton’s job was overseeing foreclosed commercial properties.
Previous owners of the property lost the home when they were financially devastated by Bernie [...]

(Photo courtesy 106 Malibu Colony)
Losing your home to foreclosure is bad enough, but to lose it because you were a victim of Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme and then to learn a top bank executive is allegedly using it as a party house?
Harsh.
The Los Angeles Times reported this morning that Cheronda Guyton, a Wells Fargo senior [...]

Make yourself skinny: Breathe in and don’t breathe out until you leave the house.
For $2.75 million, you can have a piece of New York history, although, who knows if your furniture will fit. This 9 1/2 feet wide Dutch-style townhome, built in 1873, is located in Manhattan’s West Village at 75 Bedford St, New York, [...]

I love it when people have a sense of humor. Here’s a “manly yard sale” being held in Seattle this weekend — equipment, tools, sea kayak and “man stuff.”

(Photo courtesy Detroit Free-Press)
In a unique move, Time Inc. purchased a home in the West Village neighborhood of Detroit, next to Indian Village to “… serve as a base of operations for months — and perhaps a couple of years — as Time’s various publications cast a unique spotlight on Detroit and chronicle its increasingly [...]

Two years ago, we wrote that foreclosures help to spread the West Nile Virus. How? When abandoned homes with swimming pools are left with water in it, untended, it creates the perfect breeding ground for mosquitoes that carry the virus.
This problem is still making the news. According to The Californian.com, a second dead bird in [...]

Jose and Denise Flores of Ashland, OH are facing foreclosure on Aug. 24 and they are not alone – their five tigers may be put out as well. The Ohio couple runs the Tiger Paw Exotic Rescue Center on their one-acre property and has worked with exotic animals for 20 years. The animals reside [...]