Hugh's Worthless Blog

After mentioning the Clayco webcam for Green Hall , I believe I spotted it yesterday mounted high above the building housing Kayak's Coffee on the corner of Skinker and Forest Park Parkway. Since today was so rainy and yucky (yet again) and my daughter wanted to know how the Metrolink parking worked, we drove and parked at the Richmond Heights station and rode the Metrolink in at an earlier time. As I was turning the corner this morning I was thinking, maybe, just maybe it was timed perfectly.... and it was! If you look at the picture above you will see three people holding umbrellas walking towards campus. The person with the large multi-colored umbrella is ME ! My daughter (who refused to share my giant umbrella with me) is slightly in front with her smaller umbrella, and a lady who works in the engineering school is behind us (I see her many times when I am on the Metrolink, and I should really be nice and say "hi!") But sure enough I was able to find that picture o...

Yesterday we were driving through our neighborhood when I noticed a nearby house that just went on the market a few weeks ago is already under contract. In addition last year there was another house on our street that went on the market and was also sold in less than a month. So a great location and a reasonable price can still definitely move a house in this slow housing market. Unfortunately, the house across the street from us is still for sale, even after a lot of people were visiting it in the first few weeks it was on the market. They originally priced it at a strange price point ($514,990) although they have now lowered it to $499,990. I believe they bought it near the market peak in 2006 so they are trying to get as much out of it as they can, but I bet if it had started at under the $500K point it may have sold by now. They had priced is substantially higher than what the house next to it sold for last year ($475K) even though the other house is actually larger. They are ...