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Speculative Fictions: Scientology’s Tin-Pot Real Estate Empire and the Real...
Yippee! We'll never have to pay tax on this building! Photo: Scientology Media (CC) Business Insider pulls the veil aside a little on the vast global real estate portfolio of The Church Of Scientology,...
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LAPD To Crack Down On Use Of Unmanned Drones By Real Estate Agents
In a nightmarish scenario from the future, technology ostensibly created to spy on our “enemies” is now being turned against us by the most nefarious of forces — real estate brokers. The Los Angeles...
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Hong Kong’s Booming Market For Haunted Houses
This AFP piece on the intersection of morbid superstition and real estate piqued my interest. Local buyers typically shy from residences where gruesome, unnatural deaths occurred, so out-of-towners are...
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Bank Of America Now Suing Itself In Foreclosure Cases
In the latest phase of the foreclosure crisis, our nation’s biggest banks have reached a Zen-like state in which they resemble snakes eating their own tails, reports Forbes: Here’s a sign of just how...
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Notorious Haunted Los Angeles Hospital To Be Turned Into Senior Homes
The Los Angeles Times reports on a recipe for trouble, with ambitious developers packing the elderly into one of Los Angeles’ most haunted grounds: Historic — and some say haunted — Linda Vista...
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Mole Man’s Lair In London Sold For £1.12 Million
It has popularly been attributed to insanity, but building a subterranean network of tunnels underneath the middle of London is quite an achievement. No word on whether the new owner of ‘Mole Man’...
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Homeowners Foreclose On Negligent Banks
Via CNN, in areas of the United States hit hardest by foreclosure, turning the tables on banks who turn deadbeat after repossessing homes: Since the housing bubble burst in Florida five years ago, more...
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Bigfoot’s Grave For Sale In Oregon
Never forget—Bigfoot allegedly perished in the disastrous 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. Now you can buy the spot where remains may lie. Oregon’s Willamette Week reports: A real estate offer too...
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Wall Street Investors Buying Up Entire Neighborhoods In Poorer Areas
Wall Street investment firms are eager to become your new landlord. New York Times Dealbook reports: Large investment firms have spent billions of dollars over the last year buying homes in some of...
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Mormon Church To Purchase 2% Of The Entire State Of Florida
Just when you thought Florida could not get any weirder…Russia Today reports: The Mormon Church is poised to become the largest private landowner in the state of Florida after spending more than half a...
View ArticleThe U.S. Double-Dip Recession Is Here
The media today are telling us what we already know: the United States is firmly in the grip of a double-dip recession, at least so far as home values are concerned. Shannon... The post The U.S....
View ArticleEntire South Dakota Town For Sale For $800,000
For under a million dollars, you can purchase Scenic, South Dakota, a small town with weather-worn charm that includes a jail, post office, dance hall, and several saloons that have stood since... The...
View ArticleWhere Does The Law Stand On Selling Haunted Houses?
Someone’s assertion that one of the bedrooms in my apartment is haunted got me thinking about this. Do landlords and house sellers have an obligation to disclose paranormal activity and the presence......
View ArticleBuy A House Atop A Cold War Missile Silo
Via Best Places To Live In NY, a home for sale for $1.76 million in the mountains of upstate New York offers the perfect retreat for the collapse of civilization: It might... The post Buy A House Atop...
View ArticleMr. Sweetness
With a strong Snagglepuss sing-song lisp, the highly manicured, old school Citizen's Cab regular, Mr. Sweetness, settles in the back of 'ol 137. The post Mr. Sweetness appeared first on disinformation.
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