second homes

Tiger’s Ex Eyes This Jupiter Island Penthouse About Two Miles From his Compound

By Candy Evans / December 17, 2010 /

All I want for Christmas is a beach home in Florida. Seems I’m not alone. Elin Nordegren Woods is also on the lookout, but she has a slightly higher budget than I do — about $4,000,000. And she is looking, I hear, on Jupiter Island, a sleepy little quiet island with 516 condos and only…

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Bed Bugs & Bed Bug Etiquette for Home Holiday Entertaining: Keep Your Coat Off My Bed

By Candy Evans / December 16, 2010 /

This post in Brick Underground got me thinking and of course, I’ve emailed it to my Manhattan-dwelling son who is coming home this weekend without, I sincerely hope, any critters in his luggage. He is upset that I bought him one of those canvas-cooker deals to kill off any bedbugs that might stick to his…

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Secluded, Historical, Cheap Montana Second Home: Unabomber Ted K’s Land Up For Sale

By Candy Evans / December 6, 2010 /

Montana is a great state for second home living — check out Spanish Peaks and The Yellowstone Club. But Montana and Wyoming have those fringe elements that can sometimes scare you, elements like Ted Kaczynski, who is serving a life sentence for killing three people and injuring 23 during a nationwide bombing spree between 1978…

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Michael Jordan’s Bear’s Club Florida Estate Features 28,000 Square Feet, Where’s the Water?

By Candy Evans / December 6, 2010 /

You do recall former NBA champ Michael Jordan.¬† Not only is he known as “the greatest basketball player of all times” but he is gaining a rap as the greatest home builder of all times! Jordan is completing a 28,000 square foot mansion in The Bears’ Club, Palm Beach County, Florida, near where Tiger Woods…

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14 Year Old Arrested for Mutilating Cartel Victims in Mexico

By Candy Evans / December 4, 2010 /

A 14 year old boy — a child — was arrested by Mexican authorities for beheading and cutting the genitalia off several cartel victims on behalf of the drug cartels. And he was heading for the U.S., arrested while boarding a bus for Tijuana, en route to visiting his mother in San Diego. News like…

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