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Our Friend the Economy

November 13, 2008

Okay, nobody likes the economy right now. The economy is like the kid in the 2nd grade who ate a lot of paste and bit people. It is like Rudolph, excluded from the reindeer games because of an excess of red. I hear people curse it everyday and, honestly, I can understand the feeling. Things [...]

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120K House Officially Listed For Sale

October 3, 2008

Well, none of you decided to buy the 120K House from the blog directly, so we had to go ahead and list it with the Stokes Group. You can see the official MLS Listing here. We didn’t have high hopes for selling online only since a lot of our readers are not in Philly and [...]

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Just Under a Week Left on the 120K Exclusive Subsciber Sale

September 25, 2008

There is just under one week left on our subscriber only promotional sale of the 120K House. It will end on Wednesday, Oct 1st when we list it for sale on the MLS. My wife and Realtor is planning to raise the price by $10K – $15K when she lists and we will also be [...]

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How To Buy A House – Seller’s Assist

September 19, 2008

Now that we have our first home posted for sale, we wanted to put some instructional or educational posts on the basics of buying a house. We figure that many people buying 100K homes in the next few years will most likely be first time homebuyers, so this seems all the more important. Thankfully my [...]

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120K House Web Only Sale – Now till Oct 1st

September 17, 2008

The time has finally arrived to list the first Postgreen and 100K House new construction home for sale in Philadelphia. Firsts are important to us, so here are some of the self-proclaimed firsts for the 120K House that could soon be yours: First LEED Platinum (hopefully), New Construction, Townhome in Philadelphia First new construction LEED [...]

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100K Walking Series – Memphis Taproom

August 13, 2008

Here is the second video in our 100K Walking Series. This one includes the wife (aka “The Money”) accompanying me to one of our favorite watering holes, the Memphis Taproom. We are trying out Viddler today which is a local Philly company trying to offer better service than YouTube. We think they are doing a [...]

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100K Walk Score and Our Favorite Walkable Destinations

August 13, 2008

We know that everyone reading is probably familiar with the project details by now, but may not be familiar with the neighborhood that it is taking place in. All members of our team work in this neighborhood and most also live here. We all love it for a variety of reasons but not everyone will [...]

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100K Walking Series – Rocket Cat Cafe

August 13, 2008

While brainstorming ways to promote the upcoming sale of the 120K House, Nic and I have been using every excuse to use our new video camera. We realize that not everyone is familiar with the lovely neighborhood of Fishtown and East Kensington that we live in, so we thought we would create a series of [...]

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‘No Haggle’ Pricing for 100K Houses?

July 23, 2008

As we get closer to building the first set of 100K Houses, we have been discussing the sales price a bit more. One of the subjects that has come up is the possibility of using a ‘No-Haggle’ policy for the first and every 100K House we build similar to what the GM brand, Saturn, instituted [...]

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First Postgreen Sale and General Updates

July 17, 2008

I’ve been having a hard time finding the time to post this week as I’ve had to actually act like a developer. With ground-breaking on the 100K project approaching and a second project beginning, I’ve had a lot of development duties to tend to. The first bit of good news is that we officially sold [...]

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