Filed under: Estates

Most live/work situations for artists are lofts in cities but today’s home is a live/work in a more rural location. Today’s home is located in the Santa Ynez Valley area of California and sits on 20 acres of land. The contemporary home was completed in 2006 and featured in Interior Design Magazine and is the 2007 AIA Design Award winning home. The 7,000 square foot main residence has a spare design that showcases the outdoor patios and walkways. There is an 800 sq ft master bedroom suite with his and her walk-in closets and laundry, a large 1200 sq ft guest suite with two bedrooms and a common den with fireplace. Meant to be a live/work facility, the home also features an 800 sq ft art studio with adjoining 75 sq ft office, big 260 sq ft office with adjoining bath and an exercise room with bath. The outdoor areas include a picnic area, fireplace, and a pizza oven as well as a thin 70′ foot long lap pool with a huge spa. It is listed at $8 million.

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The SBA recognizes how many of us Baby Boomers are going into business for ourselves, or starting second, or third, careers, so it has produced a new web page for Baby Boomer small business owners and those who want to own small businesses. They call it the “50-plus Entrepreneur” site.

Many of the resources on the site are available to all small businesses, but it’s nice to see them packaged for Baby Boomer business owners. For example, the section on planning a business includes information on planning, starting, managing and even getting out of your business. And the section on buying a franchise might help you avoid the problems I’ve seen with franchises (see the example of PizzaWorld from last week).

The section on financing a new business has the most information. It would be worth your time to go through it carefully and gain some knowledge before you take your business plan to a bank.

Tags: baby boomer businesses, Financing a Business, Franchise Opportunities, sba, Small Business Administration

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Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping, Sports

With baseball in the playoffs, the annual shuffle of free agents is set to begin. One possible free agent is left-handed pitcher Tom Glavine of the Atlanta Braves. Coincidentally, his Alpharetta, Georgia home is also on the market. Glavine and his wife Christine have a seven-bedroom brick home on 1.95 acres. No big spender here, the Real Estalker reveals that Glavine spent just $146,700 for the lot which is in the gated community called the Country Club of the South (a community that was also home to Usher and Whitney Houston).

Glavine’s home is an impressive 14,550 square feet and done in an elaborate style that includes columns, curved staircases, massive crystal chandeliers and tall windows adorned with elaborately swagged curtains. Oh I could go on about the curtains but the Real Estalker summed it up by calling them “some of the ugliest swagged curtains Your Mama has ever seen.” And they aren’t just in the living room and the dining room, the Glavine’s curtain craze has made it into the bedrooms and bathrooms as well.

As befits a sports star, the home does have a big recreation area downstairs with a black granite wet bar, a wine cellar, a billiard area, exercise room and a putting green. The home also includes a media room, a second kitchen and a library/office. There is also a swimming pool on the grounds.

This home is listed at $3.75 million and it looks like the Glavines might be moving just down the road. It seems they paid $620,000 for a another in the Country Club of the South community in 2001 and that lot now has a new home with a baseball diamond in the backyard.

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