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As we put the finishing touches on the plans for our home, our dreams of dinner parties in the finished open kitchen , of repurposed original sconces and refurbished original details , gave way to a less sexy obsession. The mop, the vacuum, our winter coats, the laundry. Specifically: Where would they all go and how could we banish them from sight? In the New York prewar apartments we’d lived in for years, closets were strictly optional and washer-dryers were nonexistent. What made glossy interior photos appealing , I came to realize, was what you didn’t see, because it was tucked into a hidden closet or built-in cabinet. Renovating our house gave us a shot at discreet convenience. Entering the first-floor apartment, pre-renovation, meant coming face -to-face with a faux-wood- grained cabinet door —in actuality, a false front. It was an arguably clever way to bump out the bathroom on the other side to make room for a turquoise jacuzzi-shaped tub. Otto’s initial plan for the enlarged ...

LONG BEACH, CA--(Marketwired - Aug 17, 2017) - RK Properties (www.RKProp.com) announced that it has acquired Edwards Mill , a 220- unit multifamily property in Raleigh, North Carolina. "We are excited to add our third and final property to RK Opportunity Fund IV with the purchase of Edwards Mill ," said Steve King, Vice President of Long Beach, California- based RK Properties . "We believe this asset is consistent with our disciplined underwriting criteria that meets the requirements of our investors for preservation of capital, reliable monthly income , appreciation, and tax benefits." Mr. King noted that RK Properties focuses on acquiring multifamily assets in strong locations with historical rent growth and a value- add opportunity . Edwards Mill is the company's first Delaware Statutory Trust (DST) structure, offering investment opportunities for 1031 exchange buyers and direct capital investors . Built in 1984, Edwards Mill is a 220-unit class ...

RALEIGH, NC - RK Properties announced that it has acquired Edwards Mill , a 220- unit multifamily property in Raleigh, North Carolina ."We are excited to add our third and final property to RK Opportunity Fund IV with the purchase of Edwards Mill," said Steve King, Vice President of Long Beach, California- based RK Properties . "We believe this asset is consistent with our disciplined underwriting criteria that meets the requirements of our investors for preservation of capital, reliable monthly income , appreciation, and tax benefits." Mr. King noted that RK Properties focuses on acquiring multifamily assets in strong locations with historical rent growth and a value- add opportunity . Edwards Mill is the company's first Delaware Statutory Trust (DST) structure, offering investment opportunities for 1031 exchange buyers and direct capital investors . Built in 1984, Edwards Mill is a 220-unit class 'A' community situated on 36.5 acr...

In densely populated urban hubs , apartment buildings are a necessary fixture. But all too often, rental or condo complexes are built simply to fill a need—to increase apartment supply —and developers overlook the opportunity to provide something different and distinct in bustling downtown areas . However, in recent years, some developers and architects are moving away from the traditional apartment model and embracing a more unique approach: building high- end apartments inside of shipping containers . As far as ingenious adaptive reuse goes, the shipping container complex is cutting-edge. “In Phoenix, we don’t have buildings that were once warehouses or manufacturing facilities that everyone’s now turning into lofts. So the shipping containers allow us to bring a little bit of that richness that’s really missing here,” says architect Brian Stark in a video explaining how the container complex was built. “[The containers] have been all over the world traveling, and now they’r...

It’s served as a classroom annex for the former Lancaster Boys’ High School just around the corner. In 1909, part of it was converted into a basketball court for the school, “with the maximum cost of equipment not exceeding $25,” according to newspaper records. It was the home for Lancaster Bible College ’s precursor, Lancaster School of the Bible. It’s housed more than one church congregation — most recently, Foursquare Gospel Church . Standing solidly on North Mulberry Street , the square, pale yellow building looks over Shreiner-Concord Cemetery and Thaddeus Stevens’ gravesite. And it’s been a public hub of one kind or another in this west-end section of Lancaster city since it was built in 1880. Now, 128 N. Mulberry St. is gearing up for its newest incarnation: Four apartments carved out of cavernous church space . For Ben J. Cunningham, a Millersville University professor and part owner of the project, its been part investment, part neighborhood effort and a test of the crea...

PASSAGES FROM HAWTHORNE'S NOTE-BOOKS. C ONCORD, August 5, 1842.—A rainy day,—a rainy day. I am commanded to take pen in hand, and I am therefore banished to the little ten-foot- square apartment misnamed my study; but perhaps the dismalness of the day and the dulness of my solitude will be the prominent characteristics of what I write. And what is there to write about? Happiness has no succession of events, because it is a part of eternity; and we have been living in eternity ever since we came to this old manse. Like Enoch, we seem to have been translated to the other state of being, without having passed through death. Our spirits must have flitted away unconsciously, and we can only perceive that we have cast off our mortal part by the more real and earnest life of our souls. Externally, our Paradise has very much the aspect of a pleasant old domicile on earth. This antique house—for it looks antique, though it was created by Providence expressly for our use, and at the precis...