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Siouxland woman seeks to create function, flow and elegance in homes and businesses | Local Lifestyles
SIOUX CITY — Emily Nelson brings organization and elegance into pantries, cupboards and closets, areas of the home that are often overlooked. The Siouxland woman founded Orderly Elegance, a professional organizing company, roughly two years ago. And, since then, the demand for her elegant, organizational touch has grown largely by word of mouth. Nelson, whose services are currently booked out through January, has organized 150 homes and more than 10 businesses. “It’s a new concept that really hasn’t been in this area, so it’s been challenging to educate people on how organization is so important in their life,” she said. “Being organized just propels them for a great successful day. If…
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Zillow selling off homes as it shutters house-flipping business
By Seattle Times business reporter About a month after announcing it would shutter its failed home-flipping business, Zillow says it has sold or is in the process of selling about half the homes it planned to offload. The Seattle-based real estate company announced early last month it planned to close down Zillow Offers, its attempt at an algorithm-driven version of home-flipping known as iBuying. After months of upbeat comments about the business, Zillow executives said they had faced longer than expected timelines to fix up and resell homes and the company’s algorithm had failed to accurately predict prices. Zillow planned to lay off 25{3e92bdb61ecc35f2999ee2a63f1e687c788772421b16b0136989bbb6b4e89b73} of its staff as a result.…
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Business is booming for Osceola County vacation rental homes
KISSIMMEE, Fla. — The numbers show that 2020 was a down year for tourism travel, and Central Florida felt the impact financially as tens of millions of tourism tax dollars were lost. What You Need To Know Central Florida lost tens of millions of tourism tax dollars due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 While most of the area’s businesses are still on the rebound, experts say vacation rentals in Osceola County are thriving So far, vacation rentals are doing better than 2019, before the pandemic hit, despite being down about 10,000 homes As Central Florida continues to rebound, the vacation rental business in Osceola County is thriving. Not only is…
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Flooding is often-overlooked risk for Upstate homes and businesses
The unfortunate truth is flooding can happen anywhere. The challenge for property owners, whether the property is a home or a business, is assessing the risk of a flood loss and whether flood insurance is the best option to minimize it. Chanticleer Golf Course at Greenville Country Club flooding on May 20, 2020. Photo by Mark Johnston Flooding is not just a coastal problem Russ Dubisky, executive director of the S.C. Insurance Association in Columbia, says coastal flooding events tend to get more attention because they often result in the total loss of homes and businesses due to storm surges. But, while Upstate residents are extremely unlikely to see their…
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Zillow seeks to sell 7,000 homes for $2.8 billion after pausing its flipping purchases
Zillow Team Inc. is searching to promote about 7,000 properties as it seeks to get better from a fumble in its superior-tech household-flipping business. The business is seeking roughly $2.8 billion for the homes, which are being pitched to institutional traders, according to individuals common with the make any difference. Zillow is most likely to provide the houses to a multitude of potential buyers relatively than packaging them in a solitary transaction, claimed the men and women, who requested not to be named due to the fact the subject is private. The shift to offload a block of households will come as Zillow seeks to get better from an operational…