Home and Garden
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These luxury home mainstays may be gone in 20 yearsJan 29, 2017 5:00 am - Some real estate amenities are eternal — a sweeping view of a golf course, for instance, or a cozy fireplace. Others, though, might prove unexpectedly faddish: What seem...
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Why old pipes remain after re-pipingJan 29, 2017 5:00 am - Q. Our home was built in the 1950s, and all the original water pipes were galvanized steel. A few years ago, we hired a plumber to replace the old piping with copper. No...
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Gaps surface in national housing marketJan 28, 2017 5:01 am - As the housing market nears full recovery, widening gaps along racial, socio-economic and generational lines are impacting the growth of the housing market and individua...
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Another needed remedy for weaknesses in the home loan marketJan 28, 2017 5:00 am - With a new administration in Washington, the time is ripe to reconsider some fundamental features of our housing finance system. In recent articles, I focused on three w...
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Older couple prefers renting, and that's OKJan 28, 2017 5:00 am - Q. We are 63 and 68 years old and still working. We sold our home and relocated across the country a couple of years ago for our current jobs. We are renting a house and...
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Designers find creative ways to make new products from recyclingJan 27, 2017 5:00 am - Recycling has become the norm in many communities. The detritus of our daily lives — plastic, glass, metal and paper — makes its weekly trek to processing plants across ...
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Tax reform could knock your investment plans off trackJan 27, 2017 5:00 am - WASHINGTON - The small-scale owners of millions of rental homes, parcels of investment land and income-producing commercial and business real estate might not know it, b...
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Brick, wood and concrete make architectural statements in urban loftsJan 22, 2017 5:01 am - Large cities like New York, Milan and Paris have no choice but to snatch up space for residential use in what used to be neighborhoods bustling with industrial activity....
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Small changes to accommodate a senior visitorJan 22, 2017 5:01 am - The new year always begins with all sorts of ambitious ideas for change. What better time to look around your home and ready one small space for a visit from a senior pa...
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What the ancient Greeks can teach us about herbsJan 22, 2017 5:00 am - At a point in the ninth century, someone noticed a problem with all those ancient handwritten texts: The scribes had left their Caps Lock on. Every character had been re...