Yesterday Barbara Billingsley passed away. She played the mother in a television program that ran from 1957 – 1963 called Leave it to Beaver. For those of us from the generation that watched Wally and his family she was the perfect mother with the perfect family in the perfect house in the perfect neighborhood. It…
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Under normal circumstances, if an owner improves, renovates or adds on to a building, the assessed value goes up and so do the property taxes. Under the recently expanded Restoration Tax Abatement Program, the assessed value and the property assessment can be frozen at the pre-improvement level for five years, resulting in substantial tax…
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Shotgun House1850-1910. Shotgun houses are found throughout New Orleans and are usually one-story but many have a second story set at rear of house which is called a Camelback. These houses are narrow and rectangular raised on brick piers. They have narrow front porches covered by a roof apron and supported by columns and brackets,…
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I have never seen this type of sink in a bathroom before but how smart is this?
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There will be an Open House at 4618 Pitt Street in New Orleans, LA today from 1:30pm-3pm. The house has a center hall and formal entry with living room to the left and dining room/kitchen to the right. This house is in excellent condition with 3 bedrooms, 2 full and 2 half baths. There…
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I love the paint colors that the owner of this house used. A very nice house, not for sale.
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One of the things that you notice as you walk around New Orleans is the architecture. There is so much housing stock that was built in the 19th Century and it is so very interesting. You always hear that Real Estate is local well in New Orleans the housing styles are local. There are Shotgun…
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