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TYRA PACHECO/Standard-Times specialThe 16x20 master bedroom is tucked into an open loft overlooking the living room. The result is a unique room with just enough privacy.
Like so many other SouthCoast communities, Acushnet is a town filled with architectural diversity. From modest starter homes to increasingly more elaborate construction, and everything in between, there is a little piece of suburbia here for everyone. Even in a town with such variety, our Home of the Week at 260 Mendall Road in Acushnet is a bit of a surprise.
Some 50 feet off this country road, surrounded by a good number of tall oak and pine trees, sits the Cape-style log home. Since it was built in 1983, only two families have called this house their home. In Realtor Sharon Seifert's eight years of selling real estate, this is only the third log home she has shown.
Labor backbencher Craig Emerson says students who want to pursue a trade should wait until they have finished school or undertake a school-based apprenticeship. MBA chief executive David Dawes says the move would be positive for all industries seeking apprentices. "The great advantage of them going to year 12 is that they are more mature and they are able to tackle the issues of getting to and from work, and that's an important issue," he said. "But also working on site in the building construction industry in a mature manner." Mr Dawes says more students finishing year 12, means more young people can become apprentices. He says the move will bring other jurisdictions in line with the ACT, which is leading the nation with school-based apprenticeships "We have in the order of 120 young people coming though our school-based program here in the territory, which is quite a healthy number," he said.
San Francisco's Department of Building Inspection is hosting several free workshops for the public at an all-day summit in San Francisco. Dubbed Meet the DBI Pros, the event offers workshops for architects and builders as well as homeowners interested in the basics of permits and resources. Workshop topics include how to get a permit; condo conversion; lead paint laws and enforcement; seismic safety; disability access; landlord-tenant responsibilities; and how high-rises are changing the San Francisco skyline. There will be a special afternoon panel on the department's increasingly used peer review process, which taps engineering experts in the Bay Area to help evaluate complex building projects. Bring your own lunch, or buy from the concession at the event. The summit is 8:30 a.m.
Erik Blitvich, meet tough love, real estate style: If you're trying to move a property in a slow market, you're not only going to have to clean it, you also might have to stage it, too.
Staging is the practice of dressing up, or sometimes dressing down, a home to make it more appealing to buyers. As a business, it's a relatively young field that's gaining a foothold in the Chicago area as anxious sellers look for a way to attract that increasingly scarce commodity: a sales contract.
"When there's a ton of houses on the market, you have to set yourself apart and help the buyer's imagination kick in," said North Side real estate agent Beth Wexner, who routinely uses stagers to help make her listings look more like builders' models than places where people live.
The Avalanche's NHL-best consecutive home sellout streak reached 485 games Wednesday night - although two hours before game time there still were tickets available. At almost 6 p.m., Kroenke Sports chief marketing officer Paul Andrews said there were 70 tickets available to the public, which were bought with walk-up sales. "We battle the perception that the Avalanche are always sold out," Andrews said. "We keep hammering the message that people should not assume Avalanche games are all sold out." Andrews said on game days there are always between 300 to 400 tickets that go on sale to the public at 1 p.m. They are usually lower bowl seats. Andrews would not disclose what the Avalanche's season- ticket sales base is, other than to say it is "similar to past years," which ranged from 12,500 to slightly higher.
Cooking Light, Colavita USA and Sutter Home Winery have joined to sponsor the Colavita/Sutter Home Women's Cycling Team presented by Cooking Light, one of only two U.S.-based women's teams to qualify for cycling's prestigious UCI designation for the 2007 season.... .
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