Category Archive: Housing
Sharing the Common Spaces
I watch a lot of old black and white movies. The other day, I noticed that people who lived in apartment buildings tended to treat the hallways and lobbies as extensions of their own homes. Those common areas were shared between all neighbors. When guests came, those spaces were utilized.
Isn’t it the same now with so many other areas of our community? We don’t have a playset, but we use the one down the street at the local park, where other families who don’t have playsets go to play. I go for walks on the sidewalks in the neighborhood to …
Enough about the Housing Market Already!
[We want to welcome new poster Katie Fluegge to the discussion. She has started off with a bang, and I trust a very meaty subject for you all. Welcome Katie.]
Every time I turn on the news I hear the headlines about “record foreclosure” and nationwide home sales being down. But when you look at home sales in our area the truth is Central Wisconsin has a strong economy and hasn’t been affected the way that other parts of the nation have been. Locally, we have seen a decrease in the number of overall home sales by about 22% in 2008 …