Ordinary Durham

Color selection in the world’s largest toilet salvage yard… I was in a house recently that was on the market. It had just had major renovations, was staged beautifully and was priced well over $600K. I stuck my head in one of the many bathrooms and chuckled. In spite of its many modern features, the […]

As both a Realtor and as a member of the original board of Downtown Durham, Inc. 25 years ago, I’ve become a little bewildered by the whole debate that is going on about “gentrification.” Back then not even the most optimistic among us thought Downtown Durham would become what it has become or anticipated the […]

I mean, well like, Durham is a great place to be, but if you want to retire to Pinehurst and play golf at a different club every day, I’ll be glad to represent you in the purchase of this little gem. The written copy said it was originally purchased in 1942 by a concrete icon […]

With home inventories in the lower to mid-cost range very tight you may consider something that you haven’t really thought of before…a condo. Now a condo or condominium is a legal form of ownership where the individual owners only own the space within the exterior walls but jointly own all the common areas with their […]

A couple of years ago I wrote a post about the 2015 Citizens’ Financial report that the Finance office of the city has been publishing for many years to provide a distilled overview of the city’s finances that is understandable by us non-accountants. The report is distributed as an insert in the Herald-Sun, which is […]