Lifestyle Stories from August 4, 2012 (Change date)
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Condo associations occassionally must deal with hoardersAug 05, 2012 9:19 pm - Q. A unit owner in our association has become a hoarder. Personal property and garbage is piled to the ceiling of the unit, and there are narrow passages throughout the ...
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Home overlooks Long Lake near InglesideAug 04, 2012 5:25 am - This fabulous, recently-remodeled cedar home is located on one of the best kept secrets in Lake County — Long Lake near Ingleside. Long Lake is one of the smaller and mo...
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Homebuyers use reverse mortgage to their advantageAug 04, 2012 5:25 am - Many elderly homeowners want to remain homeowners but not in their current house. They may want a house that is smaller, or without stairs, closer to family or friends, ...
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Assessments often out of line with sale pricesAug 07, 2012 11:19 am - Opening the property tax bill that comes twice a year is never pleasant, but sometimes it can be downright shocking. Taxpayer sticker shock has become a more common phen...
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Lawyer can clear up ‘cloud’ on the titleAug 04, 2012 5:15 am - Q. We bought our home many years ago. We paid cash and did not get a mortgage, so nobody required us to have a title insurance policy, but we bought one just to be safe....
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Easy steps to a proper stairs installationAug 04, 2012 5:00 am - Q. We live in a 1948, three-level Cape Cod home. The steps leading to our finished basement appear to have been rather rustically homemade. We’ve torn the carpeting and ...
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Technology can make any bathroom luxuriousAug 19, 2012 4:00 pm - If there’s one room that screams relaxation, it’s the bathroom, where anyone can go to escape household hubbub and soak the worries away. However, added luxury can come ...
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Kids’ nurseries come of ageAug 19, 2012 4:00 pm - Baby nurseries and children’s rooms are coming of age, and a growing number of tots are starting life in spaces that are so stylish, I would trade bedrooms with them in ...
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An old log cabin now honed in stoneAug 19, 2012 4:00 pm - More than 100 years ago, boys slept in little log cabins at a summer camp on Lake Minnetonka’s Sunset Point in Deephaven, Minn. When Patricia Newton bought the nearly 4-...
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Is there any value to this barber chair?Aug 19, 2012 4:00 pm - Q. Can you tell me the approximate value of my husband’s barber chair? It was manufactured by the Koken Barber’s Supply Co. of St. Louis. There is also a brass plaque on...
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