I have been working on a few layout changes to the blog over the last couple of weeks and I finally feel that they are ready for prime time. I still have a few more additions and tweaks to finalize over the next few days, but things are largely complete.

I have tested the new slideshows on a variety of different browsers without issue, but everyone’s setup is a bit different. If you have any problems with this feature not working properly, please let me know. I hope you enjoy the changes.

After years of waiting, the formal groundbreaking is now set for the new Mississippi River Bridge in downtown St. Louis. Meant to create a direct route from Missouri to Illinois along Interstate-70, this $670 million project will be breaking ground Friday, February 26th at 12:30pm.

Come 2014, this project could really bring some major changes to transportation through downtown St. Louis. It’s just too bad we have to wait so long.

If you can’t tell, I’m in the middle of implementing from fairly significant graphical changes to the site this weekend. I have everything relatively functional at this point, but there will be a few quirks are hard to read text colors in some areas of the site until I finish work on it tomorrow. Thanks for your patience.

After a couple of weeks of work (almost without stop over the last four days) I finally have put up my new homepage. It isn’t completely finished, but it is good enough to go live to start off the week. This page will be the front end for Threshold Investment Properties. Too many renters and homebuyers were getting lost in the shuffle of the rather “busy” blog. If you are a regular ready this won’t really change much for you but if you wish to go directly to my blog and not the homepage, use the http://stlinvestmentrealty.com URL and not the http://thresholdstl.com URL from here on out.

They are still interconnected, but as time goes by they might diverge somewhat. I will continue to refine the site over the next few weeks and have a similar makeover coming to the actual blog. These changes have been a long time coming and when the final product is ready it will be better for both you readers and myself alike. I hope you like what I have done so far.

*NOTE – I am still working out a few bugs in the display for Internet Explorer. Should have those worked out in the next day or so. Also, I need to work on fixing all the blog links on the site so bare with me for a few days.

Although the impact of the Interstate 64 closure through St. Louis over the last two years has been less severe than most feared, it still had an impact nonetheless. Since we’ve all be inundated by news on the subject lately I won’t bore you with rehashes of other articles, but I did want to point out a couple of real estate-related affects. Read more

To those on the email newsletter list, I am sorry about the multiple mailings last night. For some reason the server sent out this week’s posts 5 times when doing the automated send out at 1am. I really have no idea why this happened, but will be taking steps in the next week to try to prevent a repeat. If you sound encounter this problem again I would appreciate a heads up. Sorry.

We ran into a few snags along the way, my contractor bailed on me with two weeks to go, and there was a nice little delay in getting the concrete countertops in, but my rehab project at 3969 Humphrey is finally complete. Read more

Just wanted to give a quick heads up on what has been going on lately. The contractor handling the day-to-day work on my rehab project walked out on me about ten days ago, which was near the very end of the project. The placed needs to get finished ASAP so I have found myself there nearly every waking moment since then. Hoping to have everythign totally wrapped up by Wednesday. A good reminder that while rehabbing can provide a great profit, it is not without it’s share of pitfalls. More details and normal posting should be back soon.

My MLS Search provider is in the midst of upgrading the system right now so don’t be surprised if the photos on your MLS searches or even the searches themselves don’t work properly over the next day or so.

It’s been a little over two months since I last posted about my ongoing rehab project, but I am happy to say that it will be done in less than two weeks. Trim work is about halfway complete so it will mostly be odds and ends from here on out. Read more

The improvements to the site are coming slower than hoped (it takes for ever to do the smallest thing), but you might have noticed the new buttons at the top of the sidebar. These will allow you to search recently listed South Saint Louis properties on the MLS. This will be far more fleshed out in the coming weeks, but these first versions are fully functional.

You may have noticed a few changes are in progress on the blog. I am in the middle of doing some upgrades so if you have any troubles between now and the end of the Labor Day weekend, I apologize. I think it will be worth the wait. I will be posting a few stories before the weekend though so stay posted.

It’s been nearly a year since I moved my company, Threshold Investment Properties, into my current building at 2654 Gravois and I haven’t stopped working on it for one minute. The building has quite a ways to go before its done, but the office itself is nearing completion. The best example of this transformation is the nearly complete storefront. Read more

Last night at 2am I got a surprising wake-up call: the alarm was going off at my rehab project in Tower Grove South. The police were already there and requesting a key-holder to come over. Upon arriving on the scene I witnessed the sobering site of a backdoor kicked in. Read more

Although my rehab project last summer was nearly the death of me (at least in terms of my social life), I am now underway on my next project. Thankfully, this time all the work is being subbed out. Read more

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