Women Build Their Dreams…and New Orleans
Market Research Firm, The NPD Group, found women:
- Buy most of all storage products,
- Responsible for nearly half of the sales of lighting, paint, kitchen/bath, lawn/garden, flooring, and safety products;
- Represent 44 percent of do-it-yourself projects,
- Account for more than half of all professionals hired for home improvement and
- In the hurricane-ravaged southeast, are buying more hardware and construction materials than anywhere in the country.
Still, studies report that an overwhelming majority of women are concerned they’ll be overcharged for home repair. MyREALTY.com helps you find a trustworthy home renovation expert, plumber, home inspector or any other real estate service provider.
Only one in ten single men buy a home. Meanwhile, the National Association of Realtors® reports single women represent one in five homebuyers. MyREALTY.com makes the process safe and simple with:
Need an emotional boost? A study, commissioned by Sears Roebuck, discovered nearly two-thirds of women surveyed take more pride in their homes than their careers. Sixty percent actually look forward to home maintenance and repairs.
And now we study Man
He wants his chair. No paleontologist or human historian may ever draw a concise conclusion as to why a man favors one chair, and only one chair. He could choose from so many sectionals and loveseats and papa sans, but he must have his beaten, smelly, faded, veritable museum of stains. An entire spectrum of spilled beer makes ‘the chair’ his very own space. It’s his property.
Our advice at MyREALTY.com is to let him have his seat. It is his island against the world, a place away from work and traffic and everything that isn’t televised sports.
Women, listen now to this advice: The chair should be your one compromise. Once you give in to the demand to keep his happy place, then you can go on decorating the rest of the home as you please.
Now all you have to do is figure out how to make the television a little less of a family focus.
Two ideas: move the ManChair to a room dedicated to television and nothing else. Then you can have a family room dedicated to actual human interaction. Or, if you don’t have the extra room, find an armoire with closet doors that can close to occasionally hide the tube.
Men’s Top 10 requirements in a new or remodeled home…
- 1. Garage
- 2. Refrigerator
- 10. TV
For the Single Ladies
(those of us who don’t “have to” find a place to put his beer laden chair)
In this day and age, the Internet is used for everything…and I mean everything. Want to learn the best way to record your gastro-intestinal issues (in a well ventilated room) and then upload it and send it to your “friends”, or better yet, set it as your ring tone? Just venture out on that big world wide web and you can find how to do just about anything. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could just type our own “Top 10 list” for something, (just for fun, let’s say the perfect man) and hit the search button? Then, we just sit back and wait for the “MyPERFECTMAN” page to list every single eligible man (with photos) in the whole wide world that meets all of your criteria, bar none. This may sound absurd to some, but if you’re saying, “Hell ya’”, then I hear ya’ sister. Oh, if it were only that easy. There may be tons of Internet dating sites out there where you can list your criteria to find that perfect man, but in all honesty, there is way too much room for interpretation… “When I said 6 foot 3 I did NOT mean a total of 6 feet with 3 extra toes on each.” Everything may look more than wonderful on paper, but until you’re in the same room with your possible “PERFECTMAN”, you won’t know if his chemistry will repel or seduce you.
Much is the same with real estate. Our goal here at MyREALTY.com, is to help you along the way of finding that “PerfectHome”. Today, women aren’t exactly sitting around waiting until they find that “PERFECTMAN” to marry before buying a house. Come on now, why would we ladies? According to the Association of Realtors®, one out of every five home buyers is a single woman; women account for one-third of all condominium purchases (as well as 6% of second homes). Word to your mother. From our Buying and Selling Guides to our Rent vs. Buy calculator, we can be your “Dr.Phil” of home buying/selling or help you find your very own “Bob Vila” who will transform your house into your “PerfectHome”. We can’t promise to hook you up with that 6’3” stud, but we can promise to hook you up with that house that becomes your palace. Remember what’s important: It’s not the size of the wave, but the motion of the ocean you can hear on your beach front property, as you drift off to sleep.
Why Houses are Better than Men…
- You can wire your house however you want…your man already comes wired—like it or not.
- You can see if there are skeletons hiding in your wide-open walk-in closets.
- If you decide it’s not your “PerfectHome”, you can sell it!
- You can knock down any walls you want, whenever you want.
- Your house won’t argue with you about painting the living room hot pink with green polka dots or even try to ask why things have to “match”.
- At least you know when your toilets are full of it.
- You can change ANYTHING you want about your house to make it your “PerfectHome”.
- You know all the stories in your house are real.
- You can always upgrade an appliance…not so easy to “upgrade” personality.
- It’s easier to walk all over carpet.
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