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Received Wisdom
This crazy idea of buying a vacation cabin almost 2000 miles away goes back a long way. I lived in Colorado from 1975 until 1985 when I moved to New York City to seriously pursue a career in photography. You can take the boy out of Colorado but you can’t take Colorado out of the … [more…]
Do I seem that stupid?
I can’t help myself, I can’t stop surfing the Real Estate websites looking for THAT place. Still considering raw land to build on, but if the right house at the right location comes along I’d prefer not to build. Then there is The Dome, it is intriguing. It has the right location, it has a … [more…]
The Hunt, and The Chase
Buying real estate can be one of the most stressful endeavors in modern life. The search requires soul searching first, and looking within is always troubling. You never know what demons will be uncovered when you ask yourself “What do I REALLY want?” Everything gets put on the table, everything can be reconsidered, even the … [more…]
I’ll know it when I see it
A coupla years ago my suppressed desire to move back to the mountains came back with a vengeance. It had been simmering and bubbling under the surface of my comfortable life in NJ, occasionally fed by random visits to friends in Aspen, Boulder and Castle Rock. The past few years I have been going out … [more…]
Eleven and a half?
I have lived in a few places in my life — in my life so far that is… but I haven’t moved as much as the average American. According to the statistical geeks behind the FiveThirtyEight Blog the average is 11.5 times in a lifetime. OK, I haven’t lived my entire lifetime yet either, but … [more…]
Never Say Never
I used to say I never want to own more than one house. That’s plenty to take care of. And then I’m free to vacation or travel wherever I want whenever I want, no feeling obliged to visit my second home. So here it is the end of 2015, I’m in the early part of … [more…]