Real Estate
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Neighborhood profile: Little Creek FarmJan 27, 2012 5:00 am - Seeking a larger home and lot, Nancy and Ron George found a spacious two-story house and beautiful open lot in the Little Creek Farm subdivision on the west side of Stre...
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The nation’s housing: On appraisals, follow the money?Jan 26, 2012 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON — The new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is working on a real estate issue that gets to the core of the agency’s purpose: Bringing clarity and better di...
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About Real Estate: FBI warns of new scam aimed at landlordsJan 26, 2012 11:00 pm - Fraudsters have greeted the new year by launching a new scam that victimizes rental-property owners. Q. I am a small-time landlord, and I am hoping tha...
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Home inspector: Asbestos disclosure kills sale of homeJan 26, 2012 11:00 pm - Q. When we bought our house, our home inspector found a list of “normal” problems but said nothing about asbestos. Now we are selling, and the buyers’ home inspector...
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Ask the plumber: How to keep a kitchen sink cleanJan 21, 2012 11:00 pm - Q. We recently remodeled our kitchen and I now have a “farmer’s”-type sink with the apron front. From what I understand, it’s made out of a “fireclay” material. What...
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Mortgage Professor: Selecting a lender before knowing price rarely ends wellJan 20, 2012 11:00 pm - Anyone completing a course in microeconomics would find great difficulty applying what he or she learned about competition to the home mortgage market. The market meets ...
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Get creative with cabinets to save money on the kitchen’s biggest investmentJan 20, 2012 11:00 pm - Virginia Toledo calls it the toughest time of her career. As co-owner of the New York City-based interior design firm ID810 Design Group, Toledo often finds herself work...
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Furniture, like food, can be ‘semi-homemade’Jan 20, 2012 11:00 pm - PHOENIX — If you can look at a dented, chipped, dusty piece of furniture that’s been in someone’s garage for years and see potential and beauty, then Debbie Nelson is im...
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Del Webb’s Edgewater celebrates 5 yearsJan 20, 2012 11:00 pm - Mother Nature helped the active adult community of Edgewater by Del Webb in Elgin celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Creekside Lodge with a winter wonderland-themed ...
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Condo talk: The Contractor Prompt Payment ActJan 20, 2012 11:00 pm - Associations enter into countless contracts, often involving very significant amounts of money. Unfortunately, many boards do so without giving much thought to any provi...