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
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
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 [...]
April 27, 2024

Past Stories You May Have Missed

Gladie and Erv
Before I gave Gladys and Erv Pfau their first grandchild, of unknown sex (I was 32 years old, had been married to their [...]
November 23, 2018
What a Cute Kid
This is about another person’s temptation, a very little person. I was getting some provisions in between snowstorms [...]
Prompted By Temptation
January 13, 2017

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!

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