Being a Millennial, I recognize how much of an impact the “Great Recession” has had on my life, especially in regards to adopting homeownership. This essay will be written from the perspective of someone who, because of the “Great Recession” has plain and simply, not been able to afford anything in the ways of homeownership. It is not just about the mortgage crisis, the recession, often has affected every choice someone of my era has had to make in their life thus far. The pros and cons of…
Renting Versus Buying a Home For many in the United States, homeownership is part of the “American Dream”, a subjective notion. Financially, this does not always make sense. This paper looks at the advantages and disadvantages of renting versus owning a home and explores the importance of performing a title search before entering into a purchase and sale agreement to buy a home. Advantages of Renting Career choices, family structure, health, and age drive personal financial planning. These same…
When the time comes for Long Island homeowners to replace outdated or poorly performing exterior doors, there are several options. The two most common door styles seen adjacent to patios, decks and side-entrances are the Double Door and Standard Patio Door. In the replacement window and patio door industry, and here at Renewal by Andersen, we refer to these door styles as Hinged-French Style Patio Doors and Sliding Patio Doors. Both allow easy entrance and exit, but there are some distinct…
Summary of the case The bird was a case which came to be known later as an economic loss. According to the case, bird Construction Company was given the responsibility to build an apartment in 1972 and later the apartment was sold to Winnipeg Condominium Corporation. After the building was sold, Winnipeg Condominium Corporation in 1982 noticed that there were problems with the masonry work as well as the mortar work in the exterior part of the building (Palmer, 2007). This made the company to…
Honey, I Hate the Neighbors The process of buying a home can be a daunting and stress full task for an individual. The combination of finding an ideal dwelling within an individual’s price range, the process of obtaining a home loan and taking the responsibility of becoming a home owning adult can mount tremendous amounts of stress on any individual. Although after the process is completed, a veil of satisfaction will rain on new homeowners because completing such a stressful task without…
Why is it that some people feel absolutely comfortable and at home in a place while others feel uneasy or uninvited? For example, one who loves shopping for anything and everything would feel right at home at The Mall of America, while one who could care less about material possessions would not be thriving. In Yi-Fu Tuan’s book, Space and Place, he discusses the concept of perspective in relation to space and place. Essentially, everyone is not going to have the same feelings or attitudes…
Step 1 of 7 Steps to Financial Freedom: Set Goals People fail in life because they don't know exactly what they want to do, have or be with their life. They might say that they want to make a lot of money or would like to live in a big fancy house etc, but the truth is they don't really know what they want. These are just day dreams they're not definite goals. The first thing you need to do is grab a pen and paper and write down what you truly desire. Dream Big - What would you have or do if…
William H. Whyte is best known for The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces a textbook study of behaviour in public space. Set mainly in 1970s Midtown Manhattan, the book and associated documentary concentrated on how people interacted with the physical design of modernist public space. His focus was on “exchange, the most vital measure of the city’s intensity”. Lesser known is Whyte’s commitment to theoretical framing for understanding this intensity and how his research into the behaviour of…
• A real estate auction is an innovative and effective method of selling real estate. It is an intense, accelerated real estate marketing process that involves the public sale of any property-most certainly including thos that are nondistressed-through open cry, competitive bidding. 1.2 PURPOSE: • In the private auction of real estate, the auctioneer is a unique professional that is both a real estate expert and an auctioneer, capable of marketing and selling particular real estate to…
Economist, Hong Kong housing prices in the world's premier, housing prices higher than the real value is close to 54%. In this situation Hong Kong people have the new trend of demand for public housing, many young higher education single persons to apply for public housing, the causes is they can’t bear costly private house. The same is the implementation of the public housing system in Singapore, many of the real estate situation is better. Actually Hong Kong people should be superior to…