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Amenities to Living in Quechee Lakes
Ted Riley tells Bob about some the additional amenities that will come along with the house. Quechee Lakes Development provides a complete management ...


Bob Completes His Search For a Home on Martha's Vineyard
Bob ends his tour on laid back East Chop with a 300 square foot home on a large piece of wooded land. The home was moved from the Methodist Campground...


Bob Tours Homes on Martha's Vineyard
Bob and Alan visit a 1930s shingle-style Victorian just outside of Vineyard Haven with a 1500-square-foot porch and a boathouse with a fireplace. Bob,...


Bob Visits Oak Bluffs in Martha's Vineyard
Bob takes the ferry to the island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, and tours Oak Bluffs to recollect the town's Victorian history at the old Camp ...


Building a Community with Environmentally Friendly Materials
Bob interviews Gwen Noyes about the Cambridge Cohousing development constructed with environmentally friendly materials.


Discussing Architectural Ideas for the Miami Condo
Bob Vila and project architect Michael Pierce brainstorm ideas for this small condo with a great view of Biscayne Bay. The condo, a collection of clos...


History of Miami Beach
Bob Vila gives the viewer a brief history of Miami Beach from its humble beginnings in plantation farming in the 1880s to its rise as a tourist Mecca ...


Malibu Beach Front Property
Bob winds up on Malibu Beach on a forty by approximately one hundred and fifty foot lot in a house built in the mid 50’s. It maintains most of its 50s...


Meeting the Affordable Home Buyers
Bob meets Kelli and Scott Jacobson and their daughter who will soon be moving into the Cape Cod-style affordable home in Mashpee, Massachusetts. Scott...


Neighborhood Tour of Naples, Florida
In this episode, Bob goes on a neighborhood tour of Naples, Florida. We see the highlife both by car and by boat as Bob selects a "cracker" cottage to...


Overview of Habitat for Humanity
Bob discusses the Habitat for Humanity mission and projects. A nonprofit, nondenominational housing organization, Habitat has built more than 125,000...


Project Plans and Tour of the Sears Kit House
Bob kicks off the Studio City, California, project by meeting Gavin and Michelle Langley, happy new homeowners of a vintage Sears kit house. They have...


The View from Island Avenue, Miami
Gina Kirkpatrick, Miami real estate broker, shows Bob a building at the Miami Beach end of the Venetian Causeway, 5 Island Avenue. Morris Lapidus, des...


Tour of an Affordable Home
Bob and developer John Druley walk through a home under construction by Qualker Homes in Falmouth, Massachusetts. This standard design is used for bot...


Touring Los Angeles Real Estate
Lois Bostic, Bob’s real estate agent shows Bob some interesting properties in the area featuring the cottage, Spanish, contemporary and ranch style ho...


Visit to the Low Income Apartment Project in NYC
We take a final visit to our sister project, and the new tenants have moved into the recently renovated low-income units on the Lower East Side.

 
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