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Plenty of empty homes in America's Rust Belt |
10-23-09 |
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| CINCINNATI (AP) — Meet the forgotten housing crisis.
While most attention has focused on the wave of foreclosures sweeping mostly middle-class, suburban Sunbelt neighborhoods from Californ... |
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DOJ, real estate listing service settle lawsuit |
10-23-09 |
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| COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The federal government and a property-listing service in South Carolina's capital city area have agreed to change how real estate brokers do business, which should lead ... |
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Weyerhaeuser posts 1st-qtr loss on weak housing |
10-23-09 |
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| FEDERAL WAY, Wash. (AP) — Weyerhaeuser Co. says its first-quarter loss deepened as the timber and wood products company struggled with a stagnant housing market.
The company says it posted... |
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Chips' benefits are more than cosmetic |
10-23-09 |
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| Stores are now awash with wood and bark chips. Besides the usual supply available at nurseries and garden centers, clean white bags of chips are also neatly stacked in front of hardware stores, sup... |
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Trade group cuts mortgage volume forecast for 2009 |
10-23-09 |
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NEW YORK (AP) — A key industry group on Monday slashed its estimate for mortgage volume by 27 percent because of higher interest rates and the slow start to the government's refinanc... |
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How to hire an honest and competent handyman |
10-23-09 |
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| On a friend's recommendation and without checking references, Anita and Weldon Wilson of Hedgesville, W.V., hired a contractor to make their house wheelchair accessible. After a year of unfinished ... |
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Set young trees up for success with proper pruning |
10-23-09 |
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| So you planted trees this spring. Those trees' first years in the ground — and especially this very first year — are important to their future strength and beauty.
Pruning is one way t... |
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Latest design ideas jostle for attention at ICFF |
10-23-09 |
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| Design buffs walking into the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York need discipline and focus or they'll end up like I did last year: one hour in, and I hadn't left the first aisle.... |
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Temporary stays help retirement living decisions |
10-23-09 |
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| For 86-year-old Lillian Fisher, her move from Florida into an adult living community in New York was a test of courage.
Accustomed to fending for herself, especially after her husband died a few... |
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50 Cent settles lawsuit over mansion repairs |
10-23-09 |
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| HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Rapper 50 Cent has settled his lawsuit against an engineering firm over repairs and renovations to a Connecticut mansion he bought from boxer Mike Tyson in 2003, a cour... |
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