Home and Garden
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Jun 21, 2015 11:00 pm - A New Home Can Create Family Trauma About half of all families who purchase a new home have some regrets about their transition, it was revealed in a recent study. More...
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Fixing a reverse mortgage trapJun 21, 2015 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON - Soon after Judy Stephens of Lafayette, Louisiana, lost her husband this past January, she got hit with more bad news, this time from the mortgage company. S...
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Pre-crisis HELOC chickens are coming home to roostJun 21, 2015 11:00 pm - Q. Ten years ago we purchased a house for $310,000 which we financed with a first mortgage for $255,000 at 3.75 percent, and a HELOC for $65,000 at 3.5 percent. The HELO...
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Thimbles offer limitless world of geometric patternsJun 21, 2015 7:00 am - KANAZAWA, Japan — Kaga yubinuki are ring-shaped thimbles featuring geometric patterns created using silk thread. A specialty of Kanazawa, the charming sewing implement h...
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Builders say rapid moves are now more commonJun 20, 2015 7:00 am - “During the heyday of the housing industry in the 1990s and early 2000s, people would sign a contract to build the home they wanted on the lot they preferred, but they w...
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Hiring an appraiser isn't always necessaryJun 20, 2015 12:00 am - Q. My wife and I would like to know the value of our house and property. We think it would be important to have an estimate as to the property value if one of us died, f...
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Insurance issues arise when classes use association propertyJun 20, 2015 12:00 am - Q. The board of our association wants to permit a fitness instructor to use association facilities in order to hold exercise classes for residents. The instructor would ...
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Tempered safety glass can shatter into tiny piecesJun 19, 2015 12:00 am - Q. We were watching TV tonight and out of nowhere our sliding glass door just shattered to pieces. What could have caused this? Our house is 20 years old, and we have be...
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Bringing the ocean into your homeJun 14, 2015 11:00 pm - Everyone's idea of a perfect vacation or getaway is different. Most would agree, however, that a beach vacation rates up there with the best. Those with homes on a beach...
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Take a butterfly tour with Wild OnesJun 14, 2015 11:00 pm - Join the Northern Kane County Wild Ones for a two-session event on June 25 and 27. Doug Taron, curator of biology and vice president of conservation and research at the ...