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In a time before on-line Amazon orders and weekend trips to Target, everyone — and I mean EVERYONE — got their goods from Sears and Roebuck. In fact, they were the leading retailer for over one hundred years before Walmart finally caught up to them in the late 1980s. What began as a tiny catalog hawking jewelry to ordinary folks in the 1890s ended up giving general stores around the country a run for their money by offering everything from sporting goods to clothing, automobiles, and even houses! They didn’t stop there either, and by the early 1900s, they offered entire apartment complexes in their “Honor Bilt Modern Home Plan Catalogs.”

An Unofficial Biography Told in House Plans I’ve lived in a lot of houses. Some were planned down to the last detail; others… well, let’s just say “whim” is a very charitable word. Each one is tied to a moment in my life — some moments I’d like to revisit, and others I’d rather block out forever. But every house, every address, is part of my story The funny thing is, you can revisit most of your old addresses now with a quick Zillow search. Just type it in, click, and boom — you’re standing in the yard again at ten years old, your dad […]

True tales from the twilight zone between sold and moved out. There’s a moment in nearly every home sale—not during the final walkthrough, not even at closing—when the true handoff happens. It’s not legal or financial. It’s emotional. And oddly enough, it usually involves…a dead pet hamster. I’m talking about the weird, tender, oddly funny little remnants that stick around when a home transitions from one life chapter to the next. After 25 years in real estate, I can say with full confidence: there are five unspoken, almost guaranteed phenomena that happen in about 90% of all home sales. They […]