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On SecondShelters.com: Glamping in Montana With The Resort at Paws Up

By Valerie Jarvie / December 15, 2017 /

It’s a vacation trend that sweeping the globe — glamping, or camping in luxury tents that offer all the comforts of a posh home. The Resort at Paws Up a offers a knock-your-socks-off Western version, replete with world-class trout fishing and dude ranch activities set in pristine Montana wilderness. Valerie Jarvie shares details and photos…

On SecondShelters.com: In Honolulu, Marco Polo Spells Opportunity

By Jon Anderson / December 13, 2017 /

There’s an old investment adage: Buy when people are selling and sell when people are buying. On July 14, 2017, there was a fire at the Marco Polo high-rise in Honolulu that damaged some 200 units and will cost approximately $100 million to repair.  It wasn’t the first. There was also a fire just four…

Why Can’t This Be Love: Maui Cliffside Home to Sammy Hagar Hits Market

By Jon Anderson / December 6, 2017 /

Nine years before Sammy Hagar purchased nearly 10 acres on Maui, he helped pen Why Can’t This Be Love for Van Halen’s “5150” album, perhaps presaging the purchase. It was the band’s first album featuring Hagar, who had replaced David Lee Roth.  Oddly enough, it was about this time that I’d run into Hagar at…

On SecondShelters.com: Toy Tycoon Lists Timeless Tuscan Near Vail

By Joanna England / December 5, 2017 /

Sit back, relax, and drink in the views. With the timelessness of a European masterpiece, 1548 La Via Favorita affords a rare combination of exquisite natural beauty atop a dreamy 230 acres, in a private secluded location just minutes from Vail and Beaver Creek ski resorts.  “This is a truly timeless legacy estate that is…

On SecondShelters.com: New York Home Once Housed Family of Early U.S. Settlers

By Bethany Erickson / December 1, 2017 /

A home that has its foundation — literally — with one of the first settlers in what would become the United States is now up for grabs in New York. Known as the Teunis Slingerland house, the original homestead was built after Teunis Slingerland purchased almost 10,000 acres of land near the Hudson River from a…