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A detailing of the design development and its requirements of the project are set forth in the following section. 2.1 Background The site location’s address for the design project is 2764 Cedar Avenue - Penticton, British Columbia (see Figure 6). The terrain itself poses challenges for the team that is attributable to the unique steep topography the site location is situated on. 2764 Cedar Avenue is classified as a hillside development and requires adherence to strict guidelines set out by the…

Is gentrification overall good or bad? It’s impossible to say with certainty. Like most issues, there’s positive and negative aspects. One of the biggest issues with gentrification is housing. Gentrifiers aim to rebuild and revitalize housing areas, modernizing and remodeling buildings to get them up to middle-class standard. When successful, this helps the community and draws in a new crowd. Updated urban living areas are a huge draw for those who want to live in the heart of the city. On…

appearance, and aluminum or vinyl on the exterior side, which reduces the need for upkeep. You can even buy vinyl frames with the color of wood and texture of wood grain for frames that look like expensive hardwood, but require none of the maintenance of real…

leads to higher tenant satisfaction and higher retention rates. Many tenants today prefer to “remodeling” a rental unit to make it feel more like a personal home. While most landlords won't allow extensive construction, you can give tenants the freedom to resurface and paint interior walls and trim. Tip #3 Create a helpful “how-to” handout that includes step-by-step instructions from prepping the walls to what type of paint to use on walls, baseboards, window trim and floors – if you have…

Voluntary home buyouts are used by the Harris County Flood Control District to reduce flood damages in areas hopelessly deep in the floodplain where structural flood damage reduction projects, like channel modifications or detention basins, are not cost effective and/or beneficial. Generally, these are homes that should have never been built. More than 60 percent of the county was developed before floodplain regulations were implemented in the 1980s. The Flood Control District’s Voluntary Home…

be a residential real estate agent. At less than a week old, I was drug to my parent’s workplace, a small, family owned real estate firm. As my parents divorced and were both left as single parents and real estate agents, it was very common for them to include me in their work responsibilities. Each of them were forced to take me along while showing endless properties to clients. Through constantly being immersed in the everyday practices of the field, I have been intrigued by real estate and…

A Review of the Marika-Alderton House Marika-Alderton House (photo 1) which was completed in 1994 was designed for an aboriginal artist, Banduk Marika and her partner. It is located in the Northern Territory, Australia. The house was built with mainly hardwood and plywood with steel frame. The architect, Glenn Murcutt who is a British-born Australian designed this house to show the ideology of environmental and cultural values. He spend three years researching on the aboriginal culture,…

Symbolism plays a major part in Tennessee William 's famous play, "The Glass Menagerie." Tom Wingfield is the narrator and a major character in “The Glass Menagerie”. Through the Tom’s perception, the reader gets a glance into the life of his family; his mother, a Southern belle clinging to the past; his sister, a young woman who’s too fragile to function in normal society; and himself, a struggling, young poet working at a warehouse to provide for his family. Williams has managed to create a…

international properties to Russian buyers. Their first and foremost concern is to receive their chunk of international sales commissions in full and on time. There are no regulations on the commission size and no rules on sharing real estate commission in Russia at all. Each real estate company and each realtor choose from the offers they receive from various countries just those that are more profitable for them. Of course, the size of the commission matters for realtors a lot. The usual…

Yes, technology is great and makes life a little easier but there is negative effects. Because of this children are living in a fantasy online world and are being disconnected from the real world. As adults we probably are not all setting the right example either when we can’t even put our phones down at dinner or any social gathering. We have to find ways to be more involved in children’s access and limiting it. Not just to protect the…