Today we went for some property tours close to Center City in the Callowhill area (between Spring Garden and the Vine Street Expressway and between Broad and Columbus).
If you think rents and purchase prices are tumbling everywhere, you might be mistaken. Philadelphia is still a good buy and has great rent vs. buy ratios (coming [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Real Estate'
Philadelphia Real-Estate - Rent and Purchase Prices
August 8th, 2008 · Comments
Tags: N82 · Philadelphia · Real Estate
Visiting National Mechanics - Geek Dinner, August 5th
August 2nd, 2008 · Comments
If you haven’t been to National Mechanics, you need to go. In fact, you should go this Thursday at 7:00pm so you can join the Philadelphia Geek Dinner first meetup (RSVP on Upcoming). I got to spend some time hanging with Jason, an owner of the place, and I’m stoked this is the kick-off location.
For [...]
Tags: Geek Dinner · N82 · Philadelphia · Real Estate · Upcoming · Video
Sweat Equity
June 1st, 2008 · Comments
It’s been a while since I’ve posted on real estate - Lately been hearing a lot of people talking on the subject of short-sales, and I’m trying to digest some of the numbers. The NAR (National Association of Realtors) is describing 18% of homes on the market as being upside down (the owner owes more [...]
Tags: Economics · Philadelphia · Real Estate · Remodeling
Back to running - Nike+ to track progress
April 6th, 2008 · Comments
After a long time off I’m finally back to running. My wife gave me a Nike+ at Christmas and it’s been gathering dust for the most part.
Why? We’ve been remodeling and we’re finally wrapping things up (photo stream on Flickr). I can feel the all-our-spare-time-sucked-out-of-us-and-put-in-to-construction-duties coming back like the warmth of Spring. Now there will [...]
Tags: Nike+ · Real Estate · Remodeling · Running
Installing tile - real developers do it themselves
March 23rd, 2008 · Comments
This weekend my wife and I got an early start Friday to finish off our bathroom’s tile. I’ve been photo-blogging it to Flickr and periodically putting up notes on Twitter. The last couple weekends have been similar, doing plumbing, floor tile, prep work, etc.
Though there is so much [...]
Tags: Blogging · Flickr · Hiring · Managing · Photography · Real Estate · Remodeling · Software Development · Twitter · Web Services
The Australian take on the sub-prime meltdown
March 20th, 2008 · Comments
A video on the sub-prime meltdown…
Tags: Real Estate
Remodel update - it’s not done yet
March 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment
My wife and I spent the weekend getting rid of the old tub and installing the new one. The goal was to get through the couple days and have a working shower before Monday AM. So much for that… But at least we’re close enough to be done tomorrow (with the tub anyway).
It’s photoblogged on [...]
Tags: Real Estate · Remodeling











