Tag: REAL ESTATE

Want to own your own town? Well, you're too late to buy this Washington state hamlet, but there will always be more. The tiny township of Wauconda went for sale on eBay last month, and finally found some new masters. If you're wondering just what it takes to buy your own town, Wauconda ended fetching a price tag equivalent to Diddy's recent birthday present to his son, Justin Dior Combs. This ...

If you're looking to buy a house -- it's a buyer's market! -- there is a new iPhone app that may appeal to you. As we learned from Textually, the Zillow iPhone app lets on-the-go users view on-the-go real estate information; users can drive through a neighborhood and view, among other things, home values, homes for sale, and what has recently sold in the area. The application uses GPS to ...

A San Francisco landlord couple is accused of manufacturing false e-mail messages as part of a larger effort to harass and oust a tenant in a residential building they own. The harassment includes cutting power to the tenant, turning off the water, throwing rocks through his window and even setting fire to the vacant apartment below his. All these things are reason enough to question the morality ...

In the 3-D virtual world of 'Second Life,' you can make some serious money. And not just the virtual 'Linden dollars' used as virtual currency in 'Second Life' -- we're talking real cash. Legal tender. Buckaroos. Residents of the online playground are able to sell virtual real estate, clothes and goods to other users, then trade in their Linden dollars at the end of the day for real U.S. ...