Sunday, August 10th, 2008
The Hunt: The Sky’s the Thing
Sam and Lynette Carmelli wanted to get the most space for the money, in a place where she could easily commute to Midtown to her job as an office manager for an investment adviser.
Archive for August 10th, 2008
Sunday, August 10th, 2008
Old cast-iron pots may be valuable
Q: I have some very old, very nice cast-iron pots. They would be wonderful to use on the stove, but they have feet. They have flat bottoms, and were designed to be placed on coals for cooking. If I could remove the feet, the flat bottoms will allow me to use them on my stove top. Is there any way …
Sunday, August 10th, 2008
Burlington
Few towns benefited more from the construction of Route 128. Passed over by early railroad expansion, Burlington made up for the slight when it became the state’s fastest growing town between 1955 and 1965 as a direct result of the highway.
Sunday, August 10th, 2008
Opportunity knocks
Meet Robert L. Wright. He’s a convicted sex offender, woman-beater, stalker, drug dealer, robber, B&E artist, plus a purported pimp. He’s also homeless and always looking for a place to crash, court records show.
Sunday, August 10th, 2008
Out of the ashes: condos on Sewall
More than four months after a four-alarm blaze ripped through a vacant Victorian home on Sewall Avenue, some Brookline residents are resisting a proposal to redevelop the property.
Sunday, August 10th, 2008
An old firehouse lures them with its siren song
BELMONT - Andrew and Susan Magdanz may be moving into a fire station, but there will be no quick exits down the pole.
Sunday, August 10th, 2008
Students learn pros and cons of ownership
When Katie Helke moved here last summer with her MIT grad student boyfriend, the two took one look at their monthly rent and started thinking, “Let’s buy.” Given the battered local real estate market and the $1,300 in monthly rent for their Somerville apartment, they worried that they were missing an important opportunity.
Sunday, August 10th, 2008
New housing law adds needed protections for seniors seeking reverse mortgages
There’s a lot to digest in the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008. One provision is intended to help seniors by reining in fees and fraud associated with reverse mortgages.
Sunday, August 10th, 2008
Low hopes on high end
S TOUGHTON - That 68 Patrick’s Run has been on the market, unsold, for more than a year just might mean no one wants it at its asking price of $1.25 million.
