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When Jahkira Michelle, a 23-year-old college administration worker, prank-called her dad to say she landed an underwater welder apprenticeship for six weeks, she just wanted to hear his genuine reaction. She knew what to expect and he delivered: “Money can’t bring your life back!” “It would be one thing if I said regular welder,” Michelle told Fortune, “but something as dangerous as going deep underwater from the shore, and I can’t actually swim, I was expecting him not to be on board at all.” The prank, trending on TikTok, involves dozens of women calling up their fathers, brothers, and partners about landing a six-figure job offer at an...

Three cliffside homes in Southern California are in jeopardy after heavy rainfall led to a huge landslide. Footage shows three multimillion-dollar homes sitting on the edge of a cliff in Dana Point, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Though all three homes are considered safe to live in, one of the homes, a $15.9 million, four-bedroom property, appears to be extremely close to the cliff's edge.   According to the New York Post, that home is owned by a local radiologist, 82-year-old Lewis Bruggeman, who told KCAL, “The house is fine, it’s not threatened and it will not be red-tagged.” He added, “The city agrees that there’s no major structural issue with...

A PAIR of single friends who were tired of waiting for men decided to club together and get a tiny home living off the grid. Savannah and Casey, who met while working in a restaurant, have now built their dream countryside pad, using money from their successful side hustle.     (Best pals Savannah and Casey decided to build their dream tiny home together.Credit: instagram/ @heywanderer/)     (They bought some land and built their home for £39,500)   They first got the idea to build a tiny home from scratch when they were doing a month-long camping trip in California. Initially, they had assumed they would find partners and buy their forever homes,...

Jeff Bezos has reclaimed the title of the richest person on earth, surpassing Elon Musk, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index on Monday. The Amazon founder’s net worth was $200 billion, while Musk followed at $198 billion. Musk has lost about $31 billion over the past year, while Bezos has gained $23 billion, according to the index. Tesla shares had tumbled more than 7% on Monday.Musk had reclaimed the title of world’s richest person in May 2023, edging out LVMH (LVMHF) CEO Bernard Arnault, who runs one of the world’s biggest conglomerates and includes brands such as Louis Vuitton, Dior and Celine. The three centibillionaires — Musk, Arnault and Bezos...

It rains an average of 171 days per year in Singapore. But one hotel in the Lion City is taking a gamble to ensure that rain doesn’t spoil its guests’ holidays. The InterContinental Singapore’s “Rain Resist Bliss” package will reimburse one night of a guest’s stay if one of their planned activities ends up getting rained out. “I was chatting with a group of friends about what’s next in luxury travel and one of them jokingly commented that being able to guarantee good weather would be the next level of ultimate luxury travel,” the hotel’s general manager, Andreas Kraemer, tells CNN. From there, the concept of a rain insurance...

Four months after Nuno Bettencourt hoisted his longtime residence atop the Beachwood Canyon neighborhood of Los Angeles on the market for just under $4 million, the veteran Portuguese-American musician has officially handed the keys over to a new owner.   Records show the 57-year-old lead guitarist of the iconic Boston rock band Extreme—who also regularly tours with pop superstar Rihanna—has sold the contemporary spread to a non-famous buyer for $3.7 million.     Though that’s around $200,000 less than Bettencourt originally wanted, it’s still a healthy $1.6 million more than he paid for the place a little over a decade ago, back in spring...

A luxury penthouse that is part of a building once home to Britain's de facto first prime minister is up for grabs for £15.5million. The three-bedroom London abode is in The Walpole development of two period townhouse adjacent to the famous Ritz hotel. The building was once occupied by Sir Robert Walpole, who is considered to be the first prime minister of Britain, with him having served his term in power between 1721 and 1742.    (The London penthouse boasts a luxury interior and is on the market for £15.5million)   (The penthouse is in a building once home to Britain's de facto first prime minister Sir Robert Walpole)   Walpole's political...

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The Chinese government had big plans for its real estate—so how did it end up with hoards of abandoned mansions across the country? Take the State Guest Mansions, a development envisioned as the palatial homes for the upper crust of society. Now their only residents are hurdles of cattle and the occasional adventure explorers meandering like ghosts around the arched verandas and stone façades of hundreds of abandoned villas. Located around the hills of Shenyang (about 400 miles northeast of Beijing), the development was originally planned by Greenland Group, a Shanghai-based real estate developer, and broke ground in 2010. But as AFP reports, within two years the project...

The last home of the late Paul-Henri Nargeolet, the deep-sea explorer who tragically died in the June 2023 Titan submersible accident, has just gone up for sale for $1.7 million. Known as “Mr. Titanic,” Nargeolet had purchased the 2.74-acre property in January 2022 for $1.5 million.Located at 1018 Route 292 on the private Whaley Lake in Dutchess County, NY, the four-bedroom, four-bath, custom-built house sports 515 feet of sparkling lakefront along with a beach, dock, and shady deck. (Paul-Henri Nargeolet.AFP via Getty Images) “He spent his life on the water, so I imagine he’d wanted to look out on it,” says co-listing agent Regan Andrews, of Houlihan...