Real Estate
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Schaumburg likely to tax treehouse, other short-term rentalsJun 27, 2016 1:00 am - New Schaumburg regulations already ensure that a large, luxurious backyard treehouse village officials learned about last year is the last of its kind. But trustees on T...
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Is a lease-to-buy option on a home right for you?
Jun 26, 2016 7:18 am - I recently had a client ask me about homeownership through a lease with option to purchase arrangement. There are pluses and minuses to the arrangement, so I thought I w...
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Century-old Woodman's expanding suburban reachJun 26, 2016 7:00 am - Since its humble beginnings nearly a century ago in Janesville, Wisconsin, Woodman's Food Market has been a family business. But with the roughly 100,000 items that now ...
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British bracing for world economy to punish UK for 'Brexit'
Jun 26, 2016 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - The British were warned for weeks that a vote to leave the European Union would result in economic pain. Now they'll find out whether it will. U.K. financi...
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Soil around home can't keep up with sump pump dischargeJun 26, 2016 5:00 am - Q. I own a split-level home built in 1964. It had a gravel crawl space, which was very damp, so I had it cement-encapsulated with drain tiles and a sump pump installed t...
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Use fabric curtain designs to transform your roomJun 25, 2016 11:00 pm - Fabric drapery creates design flexibility in small, architecturally challenged rooms. Some rooms, like this one, have bay windows, which makes arranging furniture tricky...
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A historical account of what sparklesJun 25, 2016 11:00 pm - Could it be that "bling" has made it into today's design lexicon? Bling is not just a word, but a way of life and style. It has the all the allure of theatrics, fantasy ...
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Farmhouse country charm without the barnJun 25, 2016 11:00 pm - Forty-five minutes northwest of Washington, D.C., in the tiny town of Round Hill, Virginia, is a hilly plot of land with a duck pond, an old grain silo and a 300-year-ol...
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British brace for economic repercussions of EU exit decision
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Many experienced GOP strategists unwilling to work for Trump