What’s in a name? We had a visitor from Niceville, Florida and thought, that sounds like a nice place to live. So we searched for some more interesting town names. And here’s what we found. Do you have any others?
Niceville, Florida
Pleasantville, Wisconsin
Paradise, California
Hell, Michigan
Kill Devil Hills, […]
Archive for the 'Real Funny?' Category
Scary Stories Wanted
Published by October 12th, 2006 in Blogging, Real Funny? and Residential Real Estate.The Real Estate Tomato, in a novel & fun approach to carnivals, is sponsoring a Halloween Carnival. Submit your best scary real estate story to realestatepumpkin@gmail.com . The deadline is stroke of midnight, October 29. Best article wins a prize. See more details at Jim’s fruit blog. This great idea was inspired by […]
Dizcrimination By Zestimation or The Law of Unintended Consequences
Published by October 11th, 2006 in Real Funny?, Social Network, Technology and zillow. 11 CommentsDespite what you may read on this blog, we like Zillow. But we like it for reasons other than its estimating hubris (Gregg let us borrow this word :), refusal to conspicuously post a disclaimer or let owners opt out.
Here’s a new spin on the Zillow merry-go-round. It’s a social commentary based on […]
President of NAR Ignored His Broker & Can’t Sell His House
Published by September 15th, 2006 in Real Funny?, Residential Real Estate and Weird News. 3 CommentsSaw this article in the Washington Post by Sandra Fleishman. It seems Thomas M. Stevens, NAR President ignored the advice of his broker to lower the price of his Washington area home if it did not sell in 40-60 days. He didn’t do it. Now, one year later his house has the […]
Mobile Home Used as a Deer Hunting Stand
Published by June 2nd, 2006 in Random Posts and Real Funny?.A Mobile Home deer hunting stand courtesy of Other Great Mobile Homes.
Climbing The Walls: Urban Gymnastics
Published by May 22nd, 2006 in Foolery, Random Posts and Real Funny?.Does city living sometimes make you feel like climbing the walls? This guy doesn’t seem to mind it.
Click here for video (submitted by holmes to VideoBomb). Soundtrack from “Clubbed to Death” by Rob Dougan, Furious Angels.
Update:
For more info on this art form, visit Parkour and Wikipedia.
By Celtickrozz - YouTube
How long do you think it took them to syncronize the music with the lights?
Here’s the real story courtesy of Snopes
Gizoogle: Jive Talkin’ Real Estate
Published by April 20th, 2006 in Blogging, Foolery and Real Funny?.We’ve been Gizoogled!
Gizoogle translates your homepage or any other site into jive. If you’re in need of a laugh, give it a whirl.
Here’s a screen shot of our landing page after being Gizoogled: Click on the image to enlarge.
Credit to Chris Bubny from Realtyblogging for finding this fun site.
Real Estate Commercials & Videos Gone Wild
Published by April 14th, 2006 in Press Releases and Real Funny?. 1 CommentAfter seeing how people reacted to the controversial Century 21 TV Commercial, I wanted to find other Real Estate Commercials or videos to compare it to. Here’s what I found on YouTube.com and Google Video:
YouTube.com Finds
TV Commercials:
Village Voice Classifieds - Posted by Buzzguy
Yahoo / Prudential - Posted by Redudemeister
Real Estate Loans - Posted by […]
Newsweek has a cool geek test in their April 3, 2006 issue which is also available online here.
I tested myself and turned out to be seriously nerdy with a score above 60. Dang!
Also, check out Who’s Building the Next Web? which is a must read with some great insight into the new and emerging […]
