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Recognize the Genuine

In his book BLINK, Malcolm Gladwell drives home the point that we have an instinct to recognize what is real and what is likable in the first few seconds of an encounter. Look for the genuine, don’t waste your time on counterfeits, and surround yourself with only those things that will benefit your life.

Downtown Colorado Springs Diverse Houses

Over the past 120 years, carriage houses and garages have been turned into small bungalows, so when you drive around Downtown Colorado Springs, you often see stately mansions and rambling family homes with a tiny one-bedroom house next door. Over the years, lot lines were re-drawn to make these individual homes their own sellable entities.

Crazy Lot Lines in Downtown

When you drive around Downtown Colorado Springs, you will often notice that there are big houses next to small houses. While it has an explanation, during the late 1800s, there was no consistency to how it was planned.