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Avoid contractor fraud: do the homework before home improvement
Crime and Safety - Sun-SentinelThe National Center for Home Improvement Fraud?? will hold a free??workshop, ???How to Protect Yourself from Home Repair Contractor Fraud,??? on Oct. 20 at the Central Broward Regional Park.?? Open to the public and hosted by Broward County Commissioner...Tags: Crimes, General Contracting, Lauderhill, Services and Shopping, Corporate Crime
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Delray Beach receives grant to hurricane retrofit homes
Palm Beach Politics | Sun Sentinel blogsWith $150,000 from Florida???s Division of Emergency Management, the city of Delray Beach will provide hurricane-proof improvements for about 20 homes in need of work. The grant came from the Florida???s Residential Construction Mitigation Program,...Tags: Emergency Incidents, Delray Beach, Hurricanes, Florida, Disasters and Accidents
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Building a pre-retirement nest
My husband and I paid our annual visit to the financial adviser who watches over our undoubtedly inadequate retirement savings, an appointment that is not unlike those with the dentist: necessary but never fun. During our meeting, I proudly listed the...Tags: T. Rowe Price, Layoffs and Downsizing, Finance, Economy, Business and Finance
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Scam plays on utility bill angle
Utility companies throughout the United States and Canada are warning their customers that scammers are calling residents and impersonating utility staff, claiming to be collecting on late bills. Here's how the scam works. Your phone rings, and the...
Tags: Credit and Debt, Business, Personal Data Collection, Investments, Interior Policy
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Sweepstakes scammer claims to represent BBB
Sweepstakes scammers are forever creating new ways to take advantage of the public. A recent scam involves an alleged telephone call from the Better Business Bureau. One consumer reported that he was called by a man claiming to be from the BBB. The...
Tags: Consumers, Finance, Business, Credit and Debt, Investments
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Retirees can convert time into money
Time and money are inexorably linked through our life stages. During our working lives, we sell our time to earn money at a job. And then we spend money to recapture precious time — paying others to mow our lawns, complete our income tax returns...Tags: Groceries, Television Industry, Retirement, McDonald's, Music
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What to do with inherited home? Preserve sibling relationship first
Real Estate MattersQ: Our parents left their home to me and my two sisters. The home is in Oklahoma and was appraised at $49,000 three years ago. It has a mortgage with a balance of about $21,000 and the house needs some repairs. One of my sisters wants to buy out my sister...Tags: Realty, Property, Services and Shopping, Real Estate Sellers, Real Estate
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Contractor accused of not finishing jobs
The front of Naomi Schachter's scenic home is lined with sliding glass doors, which normally would provide an awesome view of her wooded property and access to her large deck. But for several months that view has been cluttered with yellow caution tape,...
Tags: Financially Distressed Companies, Criminal Laws, Business Enterprises, Trials, Litigation
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What not to fix when selling a home
It's so easy, once you're in the clutches of home improvement, to keep improving. The new paint makes the cabinets look bad. The new cabinets make the appliances look bad. The new appliances make the floor look bad. The new kitchen makes the bathroom...
Tags: Services and Shopping, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Real Estate Sellers, Personal Service, Real Estate
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More home remodeling projects underway
Generally speaking, I am not a numbers person. That is, I only like statistics when they support what I want to believe: Weight down, bank account up. If they don't, I pretty much stick a finger in each ear, squeeze my eyes closed and make insect noises....
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Kevin Hunt: The Blizzard And Blocked Gas-Furnace Vents, Insurance Claims And 'Nemo' vs. 'Charlotte'
The Hartford CourantLook what The Bottom Line just uncovered beneath several feet of drifting snow: Gas furnaces, carbon monoxide and rotten eggs: Homes heated by natural gas vent a byproduct, carbon monoxide, to the outside of the house. A side-wall vent blocked by...Tags: Weather Reports, Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning, Television Industry, Environmental Issues, National Weather Service
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Calculating remodeling costs? So is Zillow
If, as told by gangs of economists, the housing market finally is coming back, the remodeling market should come back too. That's because when people buy a home, they're usually also buying a to-do list — or maybe that should be called a "redo"...
Tags: Rentals, Homes, Newspaper and Magazine, Consumers, Television Industry
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