Real Estate
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Who will actually build homes on Charlestowne Mall site in St. Charles?Nov 13, 2017 4:00 am - There's a post-apocalyptic feel in St. Charles' Charlestowne Mall. A handful of mall walkers represent the only foot traffic. There are faint signs of music emanating fr...
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Revised Life Time Fitness plan will go before Lake Zurich panelNov 13, 2017 12:00 am - Life Time Fitness will present its latest proposal to build a health club on the site of the former Hackney's restaurant in Lake Zurich to the village's planning and zon...
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Why more veterans are using VA loans to buy homes
Nov 12, 2017 6:22 am - WASHINGTON - For most of his life, Marrio Pearson gave little thought to being a homeowner. If the 45-year-old U.S. Army veteran thought about it at all, he found plenty...
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Where would loss of second-home mortgage deduction be felt most?
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Companies, communities bet on tiny-house livingNov 12, 2017 5:00 am - We've all been watching the tiny-house phenomenon for a while now. Tiny houses have become a fad since the cost of housing has skyrocketed in parts of the country and sa...
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Garden indoors and purify air with houseplantsNov 12, 2017 5:00 am - Gardeners may be finishing up some fall cleanup in perennial borders, straightening their garden sheds and cleaning tools, but there's no doubt about it — the gardening ...
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What are you hiding, or accentuating?Nov 12, 2017 5:00 am - The decorative folding screen has become a common interior furnishing that is both functional and aesthetically impactful. It is believed screens were original to China,...
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Is workplace stress killing your cubicle plant?Nov 12, 2017 5:00 am - Many of us work in open-plan offices where our allotted cubicles are small but our own, so to speak. We personalize them with baubles that mean little to others but a lo...
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It's wise to change locks after the closingNov 11, 2017 5:00 am - Q. When you wrote about real estate closings, one of the things you did not mention was to change the locks, or have the lock cylinders changed, so that the old keys no ...
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Shortfall often made up in next budgetNov 11, 2017 5:00 am - Q. It looks like our condominium association will end the year with an operating account deficit. What can the board do to make up this shortfall? A. The board needs to ...