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Mon, 20/04/2009 - 13:46
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  • A Homewarming with a Twist

    Wed, 26/08/2009 - 10:20

    Overseas, million-dollar homes are being turned into nightclubs by teenagers, unbeknownst to their owners until police arrive to break them up.

     

  • Positivity in the Face of Adversity

    Mon, 17/08/2009 - 16:35

    Here’s an unusual feel-good foreclosure story from Diane Tuman, Zillow Content Manager that may have a positive ending and perhaps create an entirely new career for an American woman who is an actress and divorced mother of three. In a creative measure to save her house from foreclosure, she held a bake sale with her goal to bake and sell 100 homemade “mortgage apple pie cakes” at $40 each.

  • Some Like It Plot

    Mon, 17/08/2009 - 16:27
    Here's your chance to grab an eternity of fame next to Marilyn Monroe according to the Telegraph. A burial plot next to the late starlet is up for sale on eBay for with bids starting at $710,000.

    The crypt is located in Westwood Village Memorial Park, where Natalie Wood, Dean Martin and the recently passed Farah Fawcett are also buried. Hugh Hefner, whose Playboy Mansion is located in the same neighborhood, reportedly paid upwards of $80,000 for a crypt there in the same cemetery.

     


  • British Sleep Standing Up?

    Mon, 17/08/2009 - 16:25

    According to Cabe, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment which surveyed residents of homes built between 2003 and 2006 within an hour’s travel of London, the UK builds the smallest homes in Europe so the British are now probably sleeping standing up. 

  • The Thermal Imaging Myth

    Mon, 20/04/2009 - 13:49
    Over the past 15 years and thousands of inspections, ABIS have researched numerous technologies. In recent years, we have adopted thermal imaging which has proven to be a very useful tool in improving the quality of our inspections.

    However, due to recent outrageous claims from unscrupulous inspectors, we feel compelled to do some "myth busting".