Gallery, 40 South Drexel Avenue, Bexley, OH 43209
Artists’ Reception: February 26 from 5-8 p.m.
A show with varied styles and mediums. Art Access showcases many talented Ohio artists.
Visit the site at: www.artaccessgallery.com and take a look at artist bios and images of their work!
If you are a first time buyer OR own a home currently you still have time to cash in on a tax credit. Here are the parameters:
–Up to $8,000 for first time buyers or up to 10% of the purchase price of the home and must be in binding contract by April 30, 2010 and close within 60 days. One exception, the tax credit availability is extended for one year for military personnel serving outside the US for at least 90 days in 2009 or 2010.
–Current homeowners can obtain a $6,500 credit if the owners have been in the same principal residence for 5 consecutive years during the previous 8 years.
–Income limitations to qualify are $125,000 for individuals and $225,000 for joint filers.
–The credit is limited to purchases of principal residences equal or less than $800,000.
What are you waiting for?
S.A. 2712 would also include anti-fraud language. The measure would not extend the credit to taxpayers under the age of 18 on the date of purchase unless that person is married to a taxpayer above the age of 18. The amendment would also require a properly executed copy of the settlement statement to be attached to the tax return. Moreover, the substitute would expand the restriction on a residence acquired from a family member to include a residence acquired from a spouse’s family member.
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Great way to get to know some work from local artists, eat, drink cheap date night!
Thursday, February 25th
For the Love of Art Fundraiser
Benefitting UA Arts, a supporter of the City of UA Cultural Arts Division, from 6 p.m. to 12 a.m. at Arlington Cafe, 1975 Henderson Road. $20 ticket includes food buffet, drink specials and entertainment. Tickets may be purchased at Ursus Art Space, 2814 Fishinger Road.
Two local guys are helping folks keep flowers and foliage green without sucking your water bill dry. This is taken from their site, www.rainbrothers.com and tells the story of how it all began…
Our story begins with two friends: Jonathan, a long-time community gardener living on the near eastside of Columbus who, after working with an amazing group of people at Old First Presbyterian Church in trying to grow bountiful community gardens to get fresh produce into the struggling neighborhood, discovered that water access was a major problem; and Zach (aka “Gordy”) whose passion for sustainable development meshed with the water access problem, giving birth to a rain barrel. So the two friends built rain barrels for the community gardens. And then they built rain barrels for other gardens. And, soon, people all across the great land of Columbus were requesting that rain barrels be built for them.
A business was born.
But wait, there is more. These guys are awesome. If you want to help the environment, save money AND have an enviable outdoors blooming with an abundance of greenery and eye-popping color, well these guys could be your “feel good” answer.
According to the RainBros, the average roof size for those of us in the United States is 989 sq. ft. On that size roof, with a 1” rainfall, a household can collect roughly 560 gallons of rainwater. Columbus, Ohio (where the Rain Brothers live) averages 37” of precipitation per year, which equates to over 20,000 gallons of water going down a resident’s downspouts every year! Wow.
In their words:
*We (all the partners of Rain Brothers) commit to live simple and sustainable lifestyles, and to ground our work in communities where poverty strikes most deeply, in hope that we can provide employment opportunities and a learning environment to help create meaningful employment.
*We pledge to invest profits in our community and in ideas/projects that further a “greening” and an inbreaking of justice within our locale.
*We commit to not let fear or a quest for profit control us, but to make every decision in faith, love, and a commitment to serve.
In other words, we are more than a business — we are prisoners of hope and believers of a vision. We are “the little business that could… and is!”
Come, build something with us.
Amen Brothers!
reprinted from RIS media 1.2010
Homes are trending smaller but here are the top ten”must haves”:
Paul Cardis, CEO of AVID Ratings Co., which conducts an annual survey of home buyer preferences, said there are 10 “must” features in new homes:
1. Large kitchens, with an island. “If you’re going to spend design dollars, spend them where people want them—spend them in the kitchen,” McCune said. 2. Granite countertops are a must for move-up buyers and buyers of custom homes, but for others “they are on the bubble,” Cardis said.
3. Energy-efficient appliances, high-efficiency insulation and high window efficiency. Among the “green” features touted in homes, these are the ones buyers value most, said Cardis. While large windows had been a major draw, energy concerns are giving customers pause on those. The use of recycled or synthetic materials is only borderline desirable.
4. Home office/study. People would much rather have this space rather than, say, a formal dining room. “People are feeling like they can dine out again and so the dining room has become tradable,” Cardis said. And the home theater may also be headed for the scrap heap, a casualty of the “shift from boom to correction.”
5. Main-floor master suite. This is a must feature for empty-nesters and certain other buyers, and appears to be getting more popular in general. That could help explain why demand for upstairs laundries is declining after several years of popularity gains.
6. Outdoor living room. The popularity of outdoor spaces continues to grow, even in Canada. The idea of an outdoor room is even more popular than an outdoor cooking area, meaning people are willing to spend more time outside.
7. Master suite soaker tubs. Whirlpools are still desirable for many home buyers, but they clearly went down a notch in the latest survey. Oversize showers with seating areas are also moving up in popularity.
8. Stone and brick exteriors. Stucco and vinyl don’t make the cut.
9. Community landscaping, with walking paths and playgrounds. Forget about golf courses, swimming pools and clubhouses. Buyers in large planned developments prefer hiking among lush greenery.
10. Two-car garages. A given at all levels; three-car garages, in which the third bay is more often than not used for additional storage and not automobiles, is desirable in the move-up and custom categories.
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