REAL ESTATE REPORT
Indian Lake to again be featured on ‘Island Life’
Yes, Ohio has islands — and beautiful island homes. And homes at Indian Lake in Logan County will again be featured on the HGTV show “Island Life.”
Indian Lake homes were first featured on the show in 2017. A new episode being shown at 10 tonight will feature a Dayton couple with six kids looking for a large lake house in the $500,000 to $600,000 price range.
Another new episode, to be shown at 10:30 p.m. next Sunday, features a couple from Powell seeking a slower pace on the beautiful lake and a house in the $400,000 to $500,000 range.
Real-estate agent Paige Duff, of Choice Properties in Russells Point, the small town on the lake’s south shore, will again be featured as well. Duff said that, in the past year, more than 50 waterfront homes have sold for over $250,000 at the lake.
Columbus Airbnb owners can make a tidy profit
Where are the best cities to own property to rent on Airbnb?
Some might be surprised that Columbus makes the list.
According to research by IPX1031, an investment property-exchange service, Columbus is the 16th-most lucrative market in which to own a property for rent on Airbnb, one spot ahead of Las Vegas.
Using data from the short-term rental analytics database AIRDNA, the research found that the average property in Columbus rents for $133 per night with an occupancy rate of 61 percent. Based on the median home price in the region and estimated mortgage payment, an Airbnb property owner in Columbus would net $17,484 a year — the most for any city in the Midwest.
According to the research, the most profitable Airbnb market is Moreno Valley, California, with an annual net of $33,720; followed by Virginia Beach, Virginia; Pasadena, Texas; and Garden Grove, California.
The giving of valentines dates back centuries. In the 1760s, insulting comic valentines called “penny dreadfuls” were sold.
By the 1870s, a few commercial cards were made from homemade paper, lace and ribbons. By late Victorian times, there were “mechanical” cards with moving parts, embossed cards, cards with “honeycomb tissue” to make them three-dimensional and, by the 1900s, postcards.
A beginning collector can find reasonably priced postcards and die-cut cards that were sold in dime stores. Teachers insisted every student receive a card so there would be no hard feelings. Sets sold for 29 cents for 25 cards plus a larger one for the teacher. Each 3 ½-inch card was punched free of the stiff paper, signed on the back, and put in the envelope provided. The cards featured a friendly comic drawing and a heart with a message that often was a pun.
Collectors of postcards seek out those with outof-town postmarks, city views, jobs, comics or current events or items that were typical of the year. Save the cards you get, and ask friends and older relatives for theirs to start a collection.
Q: I’d like some history about a lamp that belonged to my grandparents. It has a wooden base with brass trim and a reverse-painted glass shade with a boat scene. It’s signed “C. Durand, Pairpoint Corp ‘19.” Is that the year it was made?
A: Pairpoint Manufacturing Co. was founded by Thomas J. Pairpoint in New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1880. It became the Pairpoint Corporation in 1900. Reverse-painted glass shades were made until the 1930s. The signature “C. Durand” was used by the artist who painted the shade, Adolph J. Frederick. It is unclear why he used a pseudonym for his signature.
Frederick worked at Pairpoint from 1891 until 1937. The number marked on your shade probably means it was made in 1919. The company was reorganized several times, and the name was changed. It became the Pairpoint Glass Co. in 1957