Katrina levee breach won’t get historic listing

By KEVIN McGILL, Associated Press – 4 hours ago  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Two sites where levees breached during Hurricane Katrina and led to catastrophic flooding in New Orleans will not be listed on the National Register of Historic Places alongside notable landmarks such as Civil War battlefields and presidential birthplaces, the National Park Service said.The park service rejected a proposal from the advocacy group Levees.Org, which has been pushing for almost two years to have the sites listed Read more [...]

House Hunt: Open Houses for June 16 and 17.

  To see more information on the properties listed below, visit the Rhode Island Living website and enter the MLS number in the search box.  894 Cass Ave. MLS# 1006525. This single-family home in East Woonsocket has 3 bedrooms and 1 full bath. The property also features an oversized garage with a workshop. The home and garage both have a new roof (2009) and new vinyl windows. Open house: June 17, 2012 from 10 a.m. – noon. Listed at: (price change) $134,900. Rita Benoit, Re/Max American Dream, Read more [...]

Celebrate Father’s Day with freebies and variety of events

Celebrate Father's Day with freebies and variety of events By Joyce Lupiani CREATED 7:16 AM Tweet Share Email Print Las Vegas, NV (KTNV) -- A variety of businesses and groups will be celebrating Father's Day this Sunday with freebies, discounts or special events. SPECIAL DEALS FathersDayFreebies.com has a list of businesses that will be offering something for dad. items listed include a coupon from Denny's for a free Pancake Puppies sundae Read more [...]

Home of the Day: Starter Condo Listed at $79K

Today's house spotlight comes from Hauppauge's Town House Village where a 1-bedroom condo unit is listed for sale at $79,000.   According to this listing on AOL Real Estate, this one-bedroom, one-bathroom condo at 904 Town House Village Drive offers extra storage space with access to the development's pool, playground and clay tennis courts.  Taxes on the unit are approximately $2,7000 per year. This does not include any possible common charges or maintanence fees.  Click here for more listing Read more [...]

Retina MacBook Pro listed at nearly double retail price on EBay

Anyone in the U.S. who wants a MacBook Pro with Retina is going to have to wait a couple of weeks for it to ship. That is unless you go on EBay and spend a couple thousand more bucks than it's worth.Apple's brand new computer has been a hit with users, and it's already sold out. But as any economist will tell you, when the demand for a limited supply rises, so do Read more [...]

Creative agents use movies, arts to sell high-end homes

It's a buyer's market right now - agents need to work harder to garner attention for the properties they list, and that means getting creative.Most conventional marketing strategies have already been tested - glossy brochures, news-paper and magazine advertising, open houses, postcard drops in a neighbourhood - but now agents are looking to attract attention in new ways, especially for higher-end listings.Of course, the higher the listing price, the more an agent can afford to spend on marketing Read more [...]

FIA confirms 2013 WRC events

Amidst the ongoing turmoil within the World Rally Championship, the FIA has revealed the list of countries that will host an event during the 2013 season.No dates have been confirmed for any of the events, which were instead listed in alphabetical order in the latest press release issued by the governing body following a meeting of the World Motor Sport Council.Argentina, Australia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Monte Carlo, Portugal, Spain and Sweden Read more [...]

For sale … Coronation Street’s set will be sold after it was denied …

There were hopes the famous cobbles and terraces could be preserved as a
tourist attraction once the soap moves to a new home.

But English Heritage said: “The oldest buildings are less than 30 years old.”

ITV will sell the land in Manchester once it moves stars like Michelle Keegan,
who plays Tina McIntyre, to a new set at Media City UK in Salford.

A spokesperson said it “continues to consider the future use of the Coronation
Street set”.

Florida voters roll listed Gov. Rick Scott as dead in 2006

Rick Scott was shocked. He was dead./ppOr at least thats what he was told when he went to cast an early vote ballot in 2006 at Naples City Hall./ppYou cant vote because youre dead, Scott whos now embroiled in a voter-purge controversy as Florida governor recalls a poll worker saying. You passed away, according to our voter rolls./ppSo Scott pulled out his drivers license and insisted he was alive./ppI showed them my ID, Scott said. They let me vote provisionally. Im sure it counted./ppIt Read more [...]

Overpriced ‘pinball’ houses bounce buyers over to cheaper properties

“It’s like a pinball machine,” says Debbie Cook, an agent with Long Foster Real Estate in Silver Spring. The “setup” is the foil — the house that agents show clients in order to make other, more realistically priced listings look better. Maybe the sellers, encouraged by reports of rising sales and low mortgage rates, insisted on the aggressive asking price and wouldn’t list for anything less. Or maybe the sellers’ agent didn’t fully brief them about what the house could command Read more [...]