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Perhaps it’s none of our business, and perhaps you’d prefer to remain in the dark, but we felt like people should know their regular coffee has been secretly replaced with something else. Why was this done? To see if you could tell the difference.
An Estately power-user asks “what the heck does BOM mean?” Is it a Bank Owned Mansion? Bom Chicka Wah Wah? It actually has nothing to do with “Bank Owned.” In the cut-off, use-every-available-letter-in-the-description-allowed world of real estate listings, BOM is shorthand for “Back On Market.” It means someone was trying to sell their home, got an offer on it and...
You can now see the hills and valleys of America on Google maps. It’s not available for non-Google sites yet (including Estately). I love being able to see the direction of the valleys left after the retreat of the Cordilleran Glaciers just 10,000 years ago. Here is an example that is just south of Bremerton: View Larger Map
Marketers and developers – the same place as nearly any other young city. I like the concept that even the oldest and hoity-toitiest Seattle neighborhood names come from developers: But even Seattle’s crunchiest neighborhood got its name from land developers, who named it after their hometown in Fremont, Neb. Capitol Hill owes its name to turn-of-the-century superdeveloper James Moore, who...
