It's A New Year, Happy 2014

I have, once again been off and away and for that, hey I can only say that having two weeks in Colorado for the holidays, amazing. My last post was awful, really a test of an relative image? Not so much fun. I'm going to hit the hay for tonight and then make my way back, maybe I'll stop coming up with bad excuses for not doing anything and actually post something of substance.

Cheers

Stepping Up My Blogging Game

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Boring Week

It's been somewhat of a very boring week. I know that I haven't posted in some time and that's the simple explanation. I realize this might be hard to believe considering the standoff in washington - other than reading a lot and regular work schedule, I have to confess not much to report. I'll have to come up with something in the next couple days otherwise any readers that I may get here might be sorely disappointed and never come back.

Tesla Motors Gets A Downgrade

Oops. Tesla got downgraded the other day based upon it's high price. Pushing the $200 level one has to admit that the price is a bit out of whack with reality, although as a true believer in electric cars as the "wave of the future" I happen to feel that the company has the potential to be much greater than it is - ie. if you believe in Tesla's future, you should still be buying, if only just a little bit here and there, betting that Tesla will grow in to it's valuation. Anyway I slight pull back isn't necessarily a bad thing and considering it's rise this past year it's probably healthy.

Better Luck Finding Videos On Home Reno's

So it's taken me a little time, but I'm slowly getting there. I had been lamenting my inability to find videos and topics on home renovations etc with a just a google search through youtube, but now I'm starting to hit on a couple of better spots / good locations that are worth a little time and effort.

Here's a link to a great video on what to do / or not to do in fixing up a home for a flip. Granted I have no desire to flip my house, but it's nice to see what constitutes "value" these days.

I know that in my bookmarks section I have Real Estate Fantasy already linked up, but this is a much better through link to their general real estate and construction category.

I haven't yet made the effort to post any pictures of our house with any explanation of what projects I need to do - I know that it's pretty easy to post photos here, so I'll have to give it a whirl in the next couple days. I know that reading a blog without photos kind of really sucks - so please bare with me a little longer.

A Little Real Estate N Design Love

I think my last two posts were on something about the home renovations I've been ignoring. No seriously, I actually got to work this past week on demoing the garage roof to put in a shed dormer. Our basement has always been wet and not so great for storage - actually more or less worthless, so with a couple clear days this week and hopefully early next week, I am finally putting in the extra space above the garage. That's not the real point of this post though - note the title real estate and DESIGN love. I've been wasting my time in the evening having a little fun looking at pre-war architecture in NYC. While there are a million websites out there by realtors who show interior photos of apartments etc, there are not a whole heck of a lot who are showing the exterior design elements... So here's a couple for you that I think you will all enjoy from the classic buildings on park avenue and fifth avenue:

800 Park Avenue
960 Fifth Avenue
903 Park Avenue

And for all of you guys out there that loveeee homes of hedge fund guys, brick and cornice has a couple photos of John Paulson's townhouse.

You Tube Searches For Home Improvements Drive Me Crazy

Undertaking a couple new projects at home, and I thought I might take a little time to sharpen up on my renovation skill sets by surfing around you tube for home improvement and renovation "channels". I was kind of hoping it might be a little easier to find stuff - here's a link to the search results from the above - not great.

I'm eaither going to have to get much better at general search tactics or I'm going to have be much more specific - I think this is one of those classic cases where sometimes the internet is just filled with a little too much garbage and sorting through it all can make you insane.

I found Bob Vila's Channel, but I'm not exactly sure this is the type of stuff I'm looking for.