The Poet of Property (and For-Hire College Essays)

So there I was, taking a break from not writing, reading the New York Times, about to rush right past the Real Estate section (I own my house, and I'm not moving) when a headline—The Poet of Property—caught my eye. Since I've written about real estate and architecture since I started my business at the age of 25, I thought I might stop to discover what I might learn from a NYT-worthy subject.

I learned, among other things, that Valerie Haboush, the story's star, pens "property descriptions" and