Think back about …
My Real Estate Story
We all have a real estate story — the house you bought for a song or that great rent-controlled apartment with the river view. Or the fixer-upper that milked you dry, the roof that leaked, or the sink hole in the backyard, the noisy upstairs neighbor you took to court and the landlord or the tenant from Hell. Or that lucky day you found your dream house! Think back about My Real Estate Story and share forward!Stories on This Week's Writing Prompt
Little House in the ‘Hood
by
Khati Hendry
At last I was successfully disentangling from a bad relationship with an incipiently psychotic partner and needed to move [...]
Selling a House in a Pandemic
by
Laurie Levy
The process of preparing our house to go on the market felt like peeling an onion – layer by layer, my life there disappeared.
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Most New Yorkers have either a good or a bad real estate story. Here’s mine and it’s [...]
New Stories on Old Prompts
Joy and Arthur
Hi, I came across your story of Joy and Arthur quite by chance after a random google search. I married my childhood [...]
Prompted By An Unforgettable Person
April 27, 2024
Past Stories You May Have Missed
Pussy willow on Two-Mile
by
Gary Faules
It was a brisk morning as I tagged along with him on our way down the hill towards the barn. There was still a light amount [...]
Prompted By Father's Day
June 17, 2017
Bobby Kennedy and the Year That Took Him
Bobby had the gift of empathy -- the ability to see the world through the eyes of the poor, the unrepresented. Whereas his [...]
Prompted By A Year in the Life
January 18, 2018
Think back about …
My Real Estate Story
We all have a real estate story — the house you bought for a song or that great rent-controlled apartment with the river view. Or the fixer-upper that milked you dry, the roof that leaked, or the sink hole in the backyard, the noisy upstairs neighbor you took to court and the landlord or the tenant from Hell. Or that lucky day you found your dream house! Think back about My Real Estate Story and share forward!Upcoming Prompts
Refer a Friend to Retrospect
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