Roanoke Times
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DATE: SUNDAY, June 3, 1990 TAG: 9006050430
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"I knew people would be throwing out a lot of stuff during the move, so I decided to put in a recyling bin for them to dump in," Garrison said.
He said Boone staff members will begin separating trash from wastepaper routinely and that he will keep a recycle container on site after the move is complete.
Garrison said it will cost the company about $1,000 a year to rent the recycle container.
Boone and Co. offices are in its own building on Virginia 419. The new 15,000 square-foot building is next door. The quarters vacated by the real estate agents will be taken by Boone, Boone & Loeb, which currently has offices behind the Holiday Inn on Franklin Road Southwest.
Garrison plans to be operating from his new quarters by June 7.
- Staff
Thieves playing dirty in California capers
In California's Antelope Valley, where a building boom has spawned thefts of plants and grass to surround new homes in the high desert, authorities say thieves also are stealing dirt.
One superintendent of a building project estimates that 2,000 cubic yards of dirt valued at $90,000 were taken in the two weeks before he discovered the loss.
Authorities said it was the second report of dirt rustling this year.
Many developers must haul dirt to projects to meet building standards on lot drainage and soil compaction. Last year developers took out permits to build 10,091 houses in two areas and local supplies of free or cheap dirt dwindled. Dirt can cost roughly $45 per cubic yard delivered to site.
- Los Angeles Daily News
Wharton mansion for sale
Real estate agents claim that an economic downturn in New England property hasn't hit the ritziest neighborhoods of Newport, R.I., where up-for-sale mansions abound.
But there is some evidence to the contrary.
A four-bedroom, brick carriage house on 1\ acres was listed for seven months at $2.8 million and sold only after the price was lowered to $1.3 million.
Among the houses up for sale is Lands End, built around 1870. American novelist Edith Wharton bought the home about 20 years later. Wharton renovated the home with architect Ogden Codman, with whom she wrote the book, "On the Decoration of Houses," one of the first on interior design.
The stucco, waterfront home has 10 bedrooms, 5 1/2 acres of land and is listed for $2.7 million.
- Associated Press
Buy a home and get a trip to Disney World?
With huge inventories of unsold homes in the New York region and New England, home hunters are being offered an array of offbeat incentives.
Select the right house and the sellers will throw in the cost of commuting to Manhattan for a year, or a fully landscaped English garden, or a 1984 Mercedes-Benz or an all expense-paid vacation to Walt Disney World.
"Price cutting is too commonplace," said developer Steve Maun. "We are trying to be creative."
A buyer in Maun's subdivision about 40 miles northwest of New York City, where prices range from $299,000 to $389,000, gets, besides a house, up to $20,000 in United States Treasury bonds, which at their maturity in the year 2008 would be worth more than $100,000 for college bills.
- The New York Times
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