Too-Good-to-be-True Real Estate Come-On’s Combine an (over)heated housing market, scarce inventory (at least at the lower price rungs), and a shaky economy in which lots of consumers have still-battered credit, and what do you get? Home-made signs (like the one to the right) on telephone poles promising would-be home Buyers their pick of hundreds of...Read More
Looking at the photo below, you’d certainly think that this home’s lower level Family Room was positively cavernous. However, given that the room is only 24′ x 12′, that distant-looking Fireplace is at most . . . 24′ away — less if you assume that the photographer didn’t take the photo flush with the opposite wall. Adding...Read More
OK, so it’s not real estate marketing — but it is marketing. Clever, eye-catching marketing: in this case for a potato chip that’s apparently popped or baked (like popcorn) vs. fried or however else such things are usually made. I have no idea if the claims are valid, but you can say this for the company: they know...Read More
