Thanks for joining us. Im bob massi. Civil war commander George Custer is said to have uttered the famous words, its not how many times you get knocked down that counts. Its how many times you get back up. Nowhere is that spirit more evident than in las vegas, and we found one spot where it looked like they might not get back up, but they did. So, here i am in Reflection Bay in henderson, nevada, a place that went from riches to rags and now back to riches, one of the greatest stories of redevelopment and resurgence in america. This entire area five years ago was ground zero of the realestate crisis in america, and today it is an american success story. Lake las vegas is a beautiful, 328acre lake that was actually manmade. It was a massive project spanning decades, creating the lake, the golf courses, hotels, and luxury communities in the middle of the vegas desert. But when the recession hit, the area was devastated. This was the kind of situation thats very rare to have a 300acre lak
When youre selling your property, doing some very simple things can give you an amazing bang for your buck. One of those things its called staging. Its basically remodeling or redecorating your home to make it attractive to any potential buyer so important. And the results . They can be dramatic. We tagged along with professional home stager jennifer paxson, as she transformed two properties that are about to hit the market. What we do as stagers is we bring furniture in so that people can see how they could live in the space. We make people have an emotional connection so they see the way that they could live life. For Property Number one, jennifer went way beyond traditional staging and worked with the homeowner on repainting, restaining cabinets, and even replacing carpets. The style of the home is very traditional. And what were trying to do is make it transitional because transitional is gonna bring the traditional style as well as contemporary pieces. Contemporary pieces are more
Thanks for joining me. Im bob massi. What if you could build the ideal community with every detail designed to enhance the lives of those who live and work there . Its a bold experiment playing out here in a place called lake nona in orlando, florida. Lake nona is an 11squaremile city built from scratch. 11 square miles of an integrated, highly Collaborative Community thats anchored by these clusters of excellence in science, sports, and education with an underpinning and a foundation of Technology Running through it. And weve designed it from the ground up. That means homes, schools, universities, commercial. Hotels, restaurants, hospitals, sports facilities, shopping centers. All built to complement each other with the goal of creating the perfect city of the future. Most great cities or clusters take decades to come up. They grow organically. Its over 20, 30, 40 years in a helterskelter fashion. We had the opportunity here to design everything from the ground up. Technically, lake n