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Banking on Opportunity Zones
Opportunity Zones are extremely interesting to accountants and real estate investors, whom... LISTEN TO THEIR ACCOUNTANTS. Why? It's...
bob waun
Nov 12, 20201 min read
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The Power of FREE.
There's a few books on the subject of The Power of FREE stuff to grab attention. This old barn was hidden behind vines and overgrowth on...
bob waun
Nov 9, 20201 min read
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Can you see it too?
In the 1960s, architecture had taken a sad turn. Buildings were being designed with 'fortification' in mind. The urban unrest, and even...
bob waun
Nov 9, 20201 min read
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Why is Industrial Booming in The Midwest?
The election is over. I am writing this on Nov 1, for publication and posting on Nov 7. So I don't know the outcome of this election, but...
bob waun
Nov 7, 20201 min read
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Reimagining the Phoenix Center Parking Deck
DIRT team members helped bring DPZ Architects and CNU (Congress of New Urbanism) to downtown Pontiac in 2017. The week long charettes and...
bob waun
Nov 6, 20201 min read
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$500 office space.
We represent numerous small, month-to-month office spaces in Downtown Pontiac and Flint. These spaces come complete with furniture,...
bob waun
Nov 4, 20201 min read
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Fire The Broker. (Who doesn't sell/buy this)
There is high rise multifamily, a Meijer anchored grocery center flanking this incredible sleeper of a property. 12.8 acres for $149,900....
bob waun
Nov 4, 20201 min read
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Blending Modern into the Sky. Art from smoke stacks.
Ask you drive along the highway thru northern Italy, near Brescia, beautiful old buildings, church towers are the norm. So when you see...
bob waun
Nov 2, 20201 min read
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DIRT in the News.
Yes. DIRT team did put together an amazing deal this week. Dearborn Capital of Chicago is buying the Ottawa Towers from The City of...
bob waun
Nov 1, 20201 min read
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From the Vatican to Jerusalem - in 48 hours.
The only thing better would be a stop-over at Frankfurt Airport for a pretzel for breakfast. I did this a few years ago! My daughter was...
bob waun
Oct 31, 20201 min read
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Wynwood. Urbanism. Place making ground zero.
If you took the worst neighborhood and made it the most trendy and coolest. You'd be Tony Goldman. If you don't know Tony Goldman... you...
bob waun
Oct 30, 20201 min read
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Mr. Jaing built this.
Dan Redford, from Frankenmuth, Michigan is the tall handsome Lutheran to my left (on the right in this picture, you can figure this out)....
bob waun
Oct 28, 20201 min read
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Will there be civil unrest in America?
My granddad, Hoyt Centers told me stories of the Great Depression and WW2. About the aftermath of WW2 in Germany and how he was an Army...
bob waun
Oct 23, 20201 min read
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Winter is coming.
If you live in a climate without seasons, this post will be curious to you, but will not hold the gravity it does for us, up here....
bob waun
Oct 22, 20201 min read
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Will we have Weddings again in 2021?
So many weddings were postponed in 2020. At The Treasury in downtown Pontiac, over 40 weddings were scheduled for 2020, and many of these...
bob waun
Oct 20, 20201 min read
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Town or Country?
Urban living was the trend for young people the last decade. The trend looked like it would continue into infinity up until COVID. Only a...
bob waun
Oct 16, 20201 min read
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Surprisingly Strong Market!
Home sales are up 14%, with the highest prices in over a decade. Industrial real estate in the Detroit market is a sizzling hot 98.7%...
bob waun
Oct 15, 20201 min read
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Yes. DIRT sells dirt.
DIRT Realty has partnered with FRE.com to market properties via online and sealed bid auctions. "The best way to reach a large audience,...
bob waun
Oct 9, 20201 min read
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Kiss The Ground - documentary about Soil.
https://kisstheground.com We have had hardy internal debates about our newly chosen brand name, DIRT Realty. It's short, catchy and less...
bob waun
Oct 8, 20201 min read
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