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Steamy Stories From Swamplot

Posted on September 02, 2008

I wrote an item last week about the still-hot real estate market in Houston, particularly at the high end. For a more gossipy look at real estate in America s fourth largest city check out www.smamplot.com. The site, run by founder and chief promoter Gus Allen, has been following the trials and tribulations of Royce Builders, a national homebuilder that seems to be in a bit of financial trouble lately.Swamplot s tipsters tell of wild parties, lavish spending by the founding Speer family, and even a barking toilet seat brought out at company sales meetings. Employees were apparently e...

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