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  • Denver Foreclosure Process

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    Denver Foreclosure Process by Skyler Moore: The foreclosure process is a state police power, which means that every state is allowed to set it owns laws and procedures.  Some states tend to be more friendly to third party investors, while others make it more difficult for investors to pick up properties at a discount.  In…

  • Affordable Beachfront Property

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    Beachfront property is always some of the most sought after real estate the world over. Their is something innate  in us as humans makes us want to live close to the sea. Unfortunately, because there’s a limited supply and high demand, you don’t have to be an economist to know prices for ocean front property get driven…

  • Oak Park Real Estate Investment Property

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    Investment Opportunities in Oak Park Real Estate The old saw, “location, location, location” has kept Oak Park property values strong and stable, and with green concerns and energy costs, continues to provide a leading edge for this community that is centrally situated between urban downtown Chicago and the Far West suburbs. Vacancy rates in Oak…

  • Condominiums in Oak Park Real Estate

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    Prairie Style architect E.E. Roberts led the way in Oak Park’s multi-family residences when he built an innovative  multi-unit structure in the heart of the community’s residential district. That building, now a condominium, reflects Oak Park Real Estate’s mix of multi-unit , two-flat, and single-family residences that are interspersed throughout the neighborhoods. Many vintage buildings…

  • Bungalows in Oak Park Real Estate

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    The Chicago Bungalow is world-renowned and in Oak Park hundreds of brick, stucco, and frame versions of this comfortable family home can be found throughout Oak Park’s neighborhoods. Called the all-American house, bungalows are one and ½ stories, and most of the living space is on the first floor.  An efficient floor plan has the…

  • American Foursquare Houses in Oak Park Real Estate

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    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…

  • Craftsman Homes in Oak Park Real Estate

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    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…

  • Gunderson Houses In Oak Park Real Estate

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    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…

  • Prairie Style Homes In Oak Park Real Estate

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    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…

  • Victorian Houses In Oak Park

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    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,…