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...supposed to come naturally? The answer is dismally simple. "They are just too busy. If you are working 60 to 80 hours a week, there is very little time to go out hunting. Single people have organized their lives to get what they want: the good education, the condo, the car. Then one day they say, Gee, I want to be married. So they hire a consultant like me to help them. They can't buy love really -- but kind...
Proposition 1-2-3 would turn Cambridge into "a city in which you would have to be rich in order to be able to live here," Sullivan says, since it would result in "massive condo conversion" and raise the cost of housing in general...
...down to size. The developer, Parkview Associates, kept working on the building and went to court, arguing that there ( had been an error in the city's zoning map. But Parkview should have noticed the error, a New York appeals court ruled in February. Decapitation of the condo could cost $9 million...
...offshoot of the I-30 condo scandal, as it is known locally, resulted in the March indictment of former Democratic Party Fund Raiser Thomas Gaubert, 48, who has been charged with arranging $8 million in questionable loans by an Iowa S and L for property in another Dallas development. As part of the deal, the indictment alleges, Gaubert, a friend of House Speaker Jim Wright, bought land for 50 cents per sq. ft., then sold it the same day for $5.25 per sq. ft., pocketing $5.6 million in profits. Gaubert, who denies any wrongdoing, says the Republican Administration is trying...
Paul Hawken knows his customers well. Of the new generation of gardeners, he says, "their parents had a quarter acre with a power mower and a hedge clipper. They have 600 sq. ft. behind a condo and 90 different kinds of plants in it." But he does not disdain those who crave his lovingly designed tools made of second-growth ash. "Serious gardeners are like serious writers, painters, dancers," he says. "For people who view gardening as a craft, buying the best tool they can get is absolutely essential...