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Woman Sells Home and Self for $844K

Posted Jun 30th 2008 11:22AM by Ada Calhoun
Filed under: Bizarre, Feminism, Housing

Buzzfeed has a wacky story up (taglines: "crazy craigslist ads, milfs") about a woman named Deven Trabosh who is selling her Florida home for $344,000 and offering to stick around as a companion for an extra $500,000.

A single mother, she decided she was tired of dating sites and figured she'd just go the old-fashioned route and sell herself to the highest bidder.

Are Suburbs the New Slums?

Posted Mar 3rd 2008 7:21AM by Ada Calhoun
Filed under: Economy, Housing

This article in the Atlantic predicts that McMansions are destined for the blight that affected inner cities in the '70s. The writer, Christopher B. Leinberger, even suggests it's going to be worse, because the buildings in question are nowhere near as tough as urban tenements. That means those complexes are going to get very messed up very fast.

And thanks to the boom in foreclosure, It's already started, he says:

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