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How to Contour Your Face Shape

All contouring techniques are not created equal. Any makeup artist will tell you that your face shape will make a big difference in determining what type of shading and highligh...

How to Make Mexican Tamales

I shied away from making tamales at home for the longest time, believing it was an undertaking so labor-intensive that it was only worth doing with the help of many, many extra hands. Turns out I was wrong—tamales, while requiring a small amount of assembly time, really aren't all that hard or time-consuming to make at all. After a few rounds of recipe testing, this version with three options for fillings will give you plenty of light, tender, airy, and incredibly flavor tamales…

Why we will no longer be a welcoming church

We’ve decided to quit being a welcoming church. No kidding. We’re giving it up. Like so many congregations, we’ve sunk an amazing amount of time and energy into becoming a welcoming church. We changed worship styles, trained greeters and ushers, wore name tags, brewed coffee, went to workshops on hospitality and put our friendliest people …

5 Tips for Touring Office Space

Office tenants considering a relocation or a renewal should tour competitive properties to research the market and enhance their negotiation position. For an effective tour, decision makers must attend – this is not a task that can be delegated to an office manager. Remember that you are seeking a long term relationship in the form …

New Investment Trap: Tapping Your Retirement Accounts For Real Estate Investing

Sharpies want you to own a rental property within your IRA or 401(K). Why that is a very bad idea.

Cultivating Goodness In A Real Estate Office

Last week, we considered how these lessons regarding the Intellectual and the Aesthetic might be practically applied in the context of a real estate brokerage. Today's topic is how the Moral and Spiritual dimensions might be addressed in such an environment.

Is Your Estate Pet-Friendly?

Estate planning experts urge pet owners to prepare for the possibility that their animal companions may outlive them. When it comes to planning for the well-being of your family, do not forget to plan for every member, furry and four-legged or otherwise. If something were to happen to you, then...

Urine Used to Generate Electricity, Heat Office Building

Adaptive Reuse: Loved by Renters and Investors Alike

Old factories and buildings in the Greater Boston area are enjoying new successes as loft-style apartments through adaptive reuse, allowing owners and landlords to harness the power of premium locations

Council Post: Seven Pervasive Myths About Real Estate Down Payments

Despite the vast amount of information available about real estate purchases, some myths still persist.

Green Buildings: More Value Than You Can Imagine

All the costs of green building do add up, but these real costs are concretely offset by direct economic benefits.

Tetris on an office building: can 'gamifying' cities help improve them?

You can play Snake on a London fountain, Battleship across the river Thames and ‘Pac-Manhattan’ on the grid of New York City’s streets – but some game developers are thinking seriously about how to connect citizens with their cities

Real estate Razzies: The most questionable building perks in NYC

Instead of regurgitating the same old praises for shiniest or most expensive, we’re handing out trophies to buildings that address the real (and dubious) needs of rich New Yorkers.

Modular Construction in the City: Making Way for Modern Metropolitan Businesses

TagsOur cities are fast becoming more densely populated and space is at a premium. Restrictions on building space and disturbances to surrounding areas are one particular reason why modular construction is enjoying a surge in popularityBusiness owners who are looking to expand an existing site or construct a new building using a formula and design that they know already works for them, can use…

Funny Real Estate: What’s Going on in These 6 Photos?

by hookedonhouses on July 8, 2014 Do you ever come across a photo in a real estate listing that makes you do a double-take? Here are 6 that baffled me a bit: I imagine this creature lurking in an o…

The new rules of real estate team building: Part 1

In today's climate, the real estate industry is moving toward more sales teams and fewer individual salespeople. Generally speaking, sales teams show more profitability and better reliability than the solo real estate broker provides.