If you aren’t familiar with the Czech Sky, read this 2010 post.
The Czech Sky is still found in many Seattle-area home listings today. Here are just a few…
Category: Humor
Seattle Real Estate in 2023 (via Parks & Recreation)
What will the Seattle real estate market look like eight years from now? Not much different than it does today, if “Parks & Recreation” is to be believed. For those who have been living in a TV culture vacuum for the last seven years, Parks & Recreation was an NBC TV show about local government…
A Humorous Take on Foreign Buyers Driving Up Prices
Over in the New Yorker (where the issue of foreign buyers is more substantial than a few vague anecdotes): Stop Complaining That I, Zathbog of Planet Cibwarv, Am Inflating U.S. Housing Prices I’m told there’s a familiar narrative that unfolds whenever you try to buy property in a cosmopolitan American city these days. You find…
Top 10 Future Uses for the 98-Acre Boeing Everett Factory
With the future of Boeing airplane manufacturing inevitably moving to less expensive states (sped along the way by last night’s Machinists Union vote), we may as well start work now on determining a new use for the 98-acre Boeing Everett Factory, currently the world’s largest building by volume. Here are my top 10 proposed future…
Even More Delightful NAR Propaganda
An instant classic: This video brings up a number of questions: Who is this nebulous evil entity that is “threatening the dream of home ownership”? How does a moving van across the street mean that my grandkid won’t be able to buy a home? Wouldn’t it put many NAR members out of business if everyone…