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DC Gated Communities
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 at 7:51pm. 3086 Views, 0 Comments.
Court Yards, Parking and Security are Draws for DC Gated Communities
A housing staple of the Sunbelt, there are only a handful of gated communities within the DC city limits. Our dense, urban landscape with a limited availability of vacant land has curbed the development of gated communities.
The gated communities in the District are quite popular and geographically dispersed throughout the city. Here are brief overviews of four DC gated communities:
Beekman Place - Adams Morgan
Perched on a high on a hill like a medieval castle, Beekman Place offers a commanding presence over the intersection 16th Street and Florida Avenue. Beekman Place is situated on a parcel that formerly housed a castle built for Senator John Henderson. Today the stone…
Real Estate Reality Shows Are Fake
Saturday, December 12th, 2009 at 2:14pm. 578 Views, 0 Comments.
The first real estate reality show I ever watched featured the Car Barn, one of my favorite Capitol Hill condo developments. If memory serves me correctly, the buyer on the show did not end up purchasing the unit at the Car Barn.
If you still believe in the Easter Bunny and the tooth fairy, you may want to stop reading this post. According to Mary Ellen Podmolik of the Chicago Tribune, all those real estate reality shows on HGTV and other networks are fake! An example cited by Ms. Podmolik was that one show filmed 40 hours of home shopping that was cut to create the 25 minute House Hunters episode. In fact the buyers in this particular show had to shoot the same conversation about a property over and over from different angles.
Sorry to let the…
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