I know, Kristie is getting fixated on this whole “stop the new, let’s renew building homes vs. renovating them” thing. Edwin Hesse (an awesome home remodeler) sent me an article from TIME entitled “Greening This Old House” which further discusses renovating existing unwanted homes that are currently sitting on the market.
I recently suggested to the Street of Dreams that instead of building more homes for the 2010 show, we should instead adopt a street of unattractive ranches homes or better yet, split levels and turn the builders loose!
One of my FAVEorite clients (thanks Adam!) shared an article with me today (see below) that says the Portland Street of Dreams is going to be a “Condo Show” in the Pearl District of NW Portland this year. What a GREAT idea! The previous Street of Dreams homes have had a very difficult time selling and I’ve wondered how much participating as a builder has really cost the poor guys… building those homes is quite an expensive advertisement if they can’t sell them.
We visited the Street of Dreams again this year. The homes were amazing of course but the planning of the event as well as the planning of the location of the homes left us a bit baffled. My husband and I both being real estate agents decided to tour on “Realtor Day”, we took our 9 year old daughter making it a family event. We were there before it started and were startled by a line that reminded me of Disneyland in June (more…)