ItÛªs Happening In Real Estate
ÛÓ Some of the mystique of home ownership may be eroding in this society of high interest rates . . . prices of new houses . . . material costs .. . and all the vest.</br></br>On Saturday mornings, when other blokes are belaboring themselves on golf courses or getting a surfeit of sleep, the owner of a hedge-ringed property has the privilege of barbering his barberry with all the fondness of a father cutting his baby son's locks for the first time.</br></br>with scant mental effort. Then there's time to recall a little item that should have been In the column published that very morning.</br></br>Or you might think about good ole Joe-Bush (thatÛªs his real name, believe it), who spent some chunk of his hard-earned money to have all of the now-ivy-ln-fested hedge installed before he sold off the property a dozen years ago.</br></br>But they never have to cut the hedge that Joe bought. These neighbors drive past with an airy hand wave and a patronizing smile that somehow conveys . . . "that poor devil.Û