Author: robert
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American Foursquare Houses in Oak Park Real Estate
Influenced by the Prairie Style, builders constructed American Foursquare houses in Oak Park in the twentieth century. These houses have roomy interiors and share many features with the Prairie style homes. They can be found in all the Oak Park neighborhoods. Often they have been dressed up by borrowing elements from Queen Anne, Mission, or…
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Craftsman Homes in Oak Park Real Estate
When the arts and crafts movement hit the Midwest in the late nineteenth century, it dramatically influenced architecture, interior design, and home furnishings. Elements of the original arts and crafts ideal surface in Oak Park property in its neighborhood houses, and in contemporary arts and crafts designers, restorers, and antique arts and crafts dealers. Craftsman…
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Gunderson Houses In Oak Park Real Estate
When the Gunderson Brothers built houses in Oak Park more than one hundred years ago, they had families in mind: lots of spacious bedrooms and dining and living spaces for get-togethers and gatherings. The Gundersons wanted the best quality and hired an architect, Frank Osborn De Money to design the homes. They even brought craftsmen…
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Prairie Style Homes In Oak Park Real Estate
One of America’s greatest architects, Frank Lloyd Wright, began designing homes in Oak Park in 1889. Radically new in conception, the Prairie Style Homes designed by Wright featured low horizontal lines, open floor plans, and clerestory windows; they fit the landscape and the exterior brick and stucco in earth tones were a dramatic contrast to…
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Victorian Houses In Oak Park
Victorian Houses In the Oak Park Real Estate Market Famous for being the birthplace of writers Ernest Hemingway and Edgar Rice Burroughs (“Tarzan” novels), Oak Park, established in 1848, grew up as a village in the Victorian period and its graceful, tree-lined streets have Victorian houses galore. These “painted ladies” feature spacious wrap-around porches, arches,…
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Denver Real Estate Wholesalers
By: Skyler Moore A wholesaler is a person or business that purchases distressed properties at a low enough price to be resold immediately to an end user, investor or business for a quick profit. This profit typically ranges from $5,000 to $10,000 depending on the size of the property. The need for wholesalers and reason…
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Best Investment Property Locations
Not all real estate markets are created equal, and although most markets are still down many are in fact on the the upswing. The market in your own back yard may not be the best market to be acquiring investment property in. In fact certain indicators could have your own local market in a hold…
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Private Lender Investment Property Loans
Private lenders and hard money lenders have fueled our economy while conventional banks still continue to stay on the sidelines for investment property loans. What has become evident is that there is so much demand in the market for private money that it’ a great window of opportunity for investors to particpate and earn…
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Overly Optimistic Housing Metrics?
It’s been a few years now since the first signs of trouble began emerging in the U.S. housing and real estate market. Standard & Poor’s just released the latest Case-Shiller Home Price data so where do we stand now? Market pundits have been cheering the percentage price gains in the Case-Shiller Home Price Index for…