Twelve years ago, The Real Estate Cafe was founded as a walk-in, internet-based, housing information center -- to our knowledge, the first in the country (see story below.) Over the next five years, 1995-2000, we amassed a mountain of paper files, some in the 1,200 square foot body of the cafe and more in the basement. Even though The Real Estate Cafe has operated virtually in recent years, we continue to amass mountains of paper. About 20 boxes of paper, mostly marketing materials for recent real estate conventions and newspaper articles, are ready to sorted, filed, or tossed today. Approximately (3 comments)