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Zillow Gone Wild: NJ Artist's Pretty Pink Dream Home Listed At $500K (PHOTOS) Zillow Gone Wild: NJ Artist's Pretty Pink Dream Home Listed At $500K (PHOTOS)
Zillow Gone Wild: NJ Artist's Pretty Pink Dream Home Listed At $500K (Photos) A New Jersey artist's pretty pink retro dream home is on the market for $500,000. Kate Gabrielle, 37, tells NJ Advance Media she moved into the home at 835 Hughes Dr., in Hamilton Township (Mercer County) in November 2022, and quickly got to ripping up the brown, shag carpeting and plastering the walls with pink wallpaper to serve as a backdrop for posters of Jane Fonda and Frank Sinatra. View this post on Instagram A post shared by kate gabrielle (@kategabrielle) Built in 1977, the house has three bedrooms, 1.5 bathrooms, and is 1,778 square…
Mortgage-Free Smart House Gifted To Injured New Jersey State Trooper Moving Back Home Mortgage-Free Smart House Gifted To Injured New Jersey State Trooper Moving Back Home
Mortgage-Free Smart House Gifted To Injured New Jersey State Trooper Moving Back Home A New Jersey state trooper and Air Force veteran has a newly renovated accessible home, thanks to the Tunnel to Towers Foundation.  The Foundation even paid off the mortgage for Sgt. First Class Sean Acker’s new home in Howell. The renovation features a 1,000-square-foot addition with an ADA-compliant bedroom, bathroom, and kitchenette. The Foundation also removed the existing metal ramp and installed a permanent masonry ramp. In February 2022, Acker experienced a severe medical injury, enduring three weeks of fighting for his life in the critical care unit before living away from hom…
Dogs Woke Fire Victim But Home Destroyed In Central Jersey Dogs Woke Fire Victim But Home Destroyed In Central Jersey
Dogs Woke Fire Victim But Home Destroyed In Central Jersey A Central Jersey woman and her dogs are recovering after their home was heavily damaged by fire last week. Friends have come to the aid of Valentina Mejia who was asleep when she was abruptly woken up by her dogs barking. A fire had broken out Wednesday, April 26, on the first floor of her house, Alex Errico of Piscataway wrote on this GoFundMe page. Fortunately she was able to escape and her two dogs were soon rescued by first responders.Valentina was hospitalized for the following five days in the ICU. Her dogs were taken to the animal hospital and stayed several nights to heal…
Real Estate Power Couple Flips NJ Homes In 24 Hours On New A&E Show — And In Real Life Real Estate Power Couple Flips NJ Homes In 24 Hours On New A&E Show — And In Real Life
Real Estate Power Couple Flips NJ Homes In 24 Hours On New A&E Show — And In Real Life Jon Steingraber and Michelle Pais aren't flipping homes in 24 hours for the sake of entertainment alone. New Jersey's real estate power couple does it every day. Steingraber, a real estate investor, and Pais, the founder of Signature Realty NJ, are showcasing their skills on A&E's latest home renovation show "24 Hour Flip," which premiered last month.  The show gives viewers an inside look at what goes into a 24-hour home renovation at the hands of Steingraber and Pais. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Michelle Pais (@themic…
NJ Home Where Horror Movie Was Filmed Sells For $1.46M NJ Home Where Horror Movie Was Filmed Sells For $1.46M
NJ Home Where Horror Movie Was Filmed Sells For $1.46M A famous mansion that appeared in the 1979 movie "Amityville Horror" was sold for $1.46 million last month.  The purchase of the 3,866-square-foot waterfront property at 18 Brooks Road in Toms River was brokered by Brenda Connolly, owner of The Connolly Agency. "The outdoor setting is magnificent," Connolly told Daily Voice. "They love the home. We got a good deal on a beautiful home." The home was listed at $1.7 million. The listing calls Brooks Road "the most desirable street in Toms River."   The home has been renovated over the years to include timeless appeal over…
North Jersey Couple Helping Relatives Forced From Ukraine Featured On Home Renovation Show North Jersey Couple Helping Relatives Forced From Ukraine Featured On Home Renovation Show
North Jersey Couple Helping Relatives Forced From Ukraine Featured On Home Renovation Show A North Jersey couple helping relatives flee the war in Ukraine had help making the welcome an extra warm one from George Oliphant, of the NBC renovation show "George to the Rescue." A Montclair real-estate professional, Oksana Shevchuk-Shah came to Oliphant through his wife, Zoe, who also works in real estate, NJ Advance Media reports.  When 46-year-old George Oliphant — also of Montclair — heard Oksana and her husband Milind Shah were getting ready to take in Ukrainian relatives forced out of their home by the war, he knew he had to help, he told the outlet. With just three weeks before …
Wildwood Man Finds Buried Cash From 1934 While Renovating Home Wildwood Man Finds Buried Cash From 1934 While Renovating Home
Wildwood Man Finds Buried Cash From 1934 While Renovating Home A South Jersey man found cash buried while he was renovating his home, Philadelphia CBS 3 reported. "They were hiding that money from somebody for something,” Richard Gilson of Wildwood told the outlet. Gilson found about $1,000 in rolls of $10 and $20 bills, all dated from 1934, on Friday, July 8 as he was digging up an area outside his home, his wife, Suzanne, wrote on Facebook. He thinks the money was cashed out at once during the Great Depression or stolen, the outlet said. On Tuesday, July 12, another bundle of cash was found, Gilson said, adding that he will leave that bundle intact…
SOLD! Snooki Sells 'Shore Flip' Home For $740K SOLD! Snooki Sells 'Shore Flip' Home For $740K
Sold! Snooki Sells 'Shore Flip' Home For $740K Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi sold her Ocean County home for nearly twice as much as she bought it for. MTV's "Jersey Shore" star and husband Jionni bought their $370,000 Brick Township home for $370,000 in November 2015. They sold it for twice that in January 2021, the New York Post reports. The home was just 1,795 square feet when they first purchased it. But after a complete overhaul that the couple documented on YouTube, the house grew to be more than 4,000 square feet. Click here for more from the NY Post.
Crown Jewel Of $7.5M NJ Listing Might Be Family's Secret Squash Court (PHOTOS) Crown Jewel Of $7.5M NJ Listing Might Be Family's Secret Squash Court (PHOTOS)
Crown Jewel Of $7.5M NJ Listing Might Be Family's Secret Squash Court (Photos) A squash court wasn’t part of the plan for Evan Lamp when he was renovating his Short Hills dream home in 2010.  But when he saw the measurements of the garage he was building, he knew he could make a U.S. regulation court work, too. And so, underneath his four-car garage at 85 Stewart Road, Lamp built a squash court to the World Squash Federation's standards.  The project was the only commercial construction done on a residential property Short Hills, and the court itself among the few in-home squash courts in North Jersey. Lamp's court became the cornerstone of his home, where two of h…