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...recent craigslist ad screamed, "I want to TRADE UP." The author of the post offered a five-bedroom home in an Atlanta suburb for a house worth $100,000 more in either the metro Atlanta area, North Florida or Las Vegas. Another listing, by an 84-year-old widow, offered to trade her three-bedroom home in Scottsdale, Ariz., for one in the San Francisco Bay Area, which was closer to her family. A listing on besthouseswap.com advertised a lakefront condo in Branson, Mo., for property "in any other state...
Some trades are cross-country, but others are within the same town. Consider the case of Christopher and Melissa Petrocco and Lyca Shan. The Petroccos began feeling cramped in the three-bedroom town house they shared with their two boys in Alpharetta, Ga. Eight miles away, Shan was living alone in a 3,300-sq.-ft. (307 sq m) home that was becoming too expensive and time-consuming to maintain. Though both parties had listed their home with a real estate agent--the Petroccos for two years, Shan for three months--they were unable to sell and had resigned themselves...
...dropping, which she expects, she plans to invest more: "It wouldn't surprise me if in the next year or two, I have close to $2 or $3 million in the market," she said. She values her five homes at $15 million: the San Francisco town house; a two-bedroom beach condo near Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; a house in South Africa; and two apartments in Manhattan. Orman believes that people who don't have money shouldn't buy things--they should fund their IRAs instead--while those who have a lot of it should spread it around. Her biggest indulgence...
...thing apart from the rest of the social world. It is only in our modern bourgeois society that we’ve exiled artistic product to hermetic galleries and museums, when dance has been marginalized to the stage, and literature to the privacy of one’s bedroom. It wasn’t so long ago that art was profoundly social in character, when the retelling of stories brought the whole tribe together, when depicting played a central role in religious rites, when dance was the act that taught man how to work and live in synchrony...
...rated by the public on the job’s Web site, and the winner earns the crown title of “Island Caretaker” of Hamilton Island along the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland, Australia. The six-month job comes with keys to a posh three-bedroom beach front house and a hefty salary totaling 150,000 Australian dollars. If the compensation isn’t enticing enough, as part of a Tourism Queensland marketing campaign, the caretaker faces the daunting task of exploring this stunning tropical paradise and the underwater world below while chronicling the adventures...