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bob waun
Jan 17, 20221 min read
Applause for the hard design decisions...
Thanks to my cool kid sister, my family gathered in this slick airbnb up in the mountains of SoCal. I marveled at the reuse and...
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bob waun
Jan 16, 20221 min read
Rodeo Driving: If Lip Implants were a Building
Idyllic even on a Monday night the crowds were gathering here. The rest of Beverly Hills seemed deserted but this single...
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bob waun
Jan 14, 20221 min read
Lake Elsinore: What you can't see in this picture?
This picture looks lovely, but I cropped out the homeless camp to the right as I shot it on my iPhone around 8:30am on a Monday morning....
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bob waun
Jan 13, 20221 min read
What an Office Building should look like...
Strolling between Wilshire and Santa Monica Blvd in Beverly Hills at just after dawn, I saw well suited banker types filing into this...
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bob waun
Jan 12, 20221 min read
Rooftop Pools: Decadent, yes. Lovin' it.
I spent a couple hours working from my laptop on the rooftop of the Sixty Hotel on Wilshire Blvd in Beverly Hills last week. The weather...
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bob waun
Dec 4, 20212 min read
Perspective 2.0
Out of the hospital, up on the top floor but realizing that the 8th floor down the hill is lower than the 8th floor up the hill. It's all...
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bob waun
Dec 2, 20211 min read
Am I an Asshole?
Someone recently called me an Asshole. In fact, they called me 'a racist asshole', and others jumped on to trumpet these words - not...
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bob waun
Dec 1, 20211 min read
Care Free Medical: Lansing Michigan
This is our new lobby in 1100 W Saginaw, Lansing. It shows the amazing growth and history of Care Free Medical Clinic and the great work...
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bob waun
Dec 1, 20212 min read
Flint Industrial Investment
https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2021/11/flint-industrial-park-gets-tax-break-for-planned-14m-expansion-renovation.html In February 2021,...
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bob waun
Nov 30, 20211 min read
From my COVID ICU room... New Perspective
On October 9, I took this picture from my hospital room in McLaren Pontiac of our buildings downtown. It was a new perspective of the...
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bob waun
Oct 31, 20211 min read
Why is Solar so Expensive?
They don't need to be. They can be a cost effective way to supplement the power in your home, and provide back up power vs buying a...
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bob waun
Oct 31, 20211 min read
Solar Tax Credits.
Solar tax credit amounts Installing renewable energy equipment in your home can qualify you for a credit of up to 30% of your total cost....
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bob waun
Oct 30, 20211 min read
Is Solar a reality or does it require Tax Incentives?
"In school we were told that the sun has enormous amounts of energy. It beams 10 000 times more energy than we can use at us, every day...
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bob waun
Oct 28, 20211 min read
More about Norway... Ethical Investing, Does it Pay Off?
"The Government Pension Fund Global (correct translation: Sovereign Pension Fund – Foreign), also known as the Oil Fund, was established...
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bob waun
Oct 27, 20211 min read
Why is DIRT so interested in Norway?
"In 2020 more than 70 percent of all cars sold in Norway were electric ones. Equally important is the number of newly registered electric...
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bob waun
Oct 25, 20211 min read
Farm Land Values Rise, again...
"In lock-step with overall farm real estate values, average U.S. cropland values posted sharp increases in 2021, rising to $4,420 per...
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bob waun
Oct 23, 20211 min read
Importance of DIRT: Winter Prep
The best season for gardening is.... surprisingly, Late FALL, and Early Winter. When your garden appears to be dying is when you really...
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bob waun
Oct 22, 20212 min read
Phytoremediation: Helping the Earth Heal Itself
5 years after buying the former DuPont Paint industrial park in Flint, MI we are very close to receiving a NFA - "No Further Action"...
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bob waun
Aug 21, 20211 min read
Opportunity in Wealthy Communities?
From a recent article in Crain's Detroit: Bob Waun, the owner/broker of Pontiac-based Dirt Realty LLC who is active in downtown real...
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bob waun
Jul 16, 20211 min read
Broken Windows is all I see.
In an infamous economics story, is the 'Broken Window Fallacy'. In a small remote village, a boy throws a rock thru the window. The shop...
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