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NYT: The Obama administration has been trying to keep defaulting owners in their homes. Now it will take a new approach: paying some of them to leave.

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Question: I’m having trouble adjusting to my new job as the office manager for a small business. My biggest problem is that one of the owners, “Emily,” behaves very erratically. Emily is highly emotional, constantly fluctuating between enthusiastic support and crushing criticism. Sometimes she is encouraging, but at other times she becomes obsessed with insignificant details. She is like this with everyone, including her business partner.

Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com
Whatever the cause, the solution to ice dams remains the same
Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com
Zolton Cohen is a Kalamazoo-based newspaper columnist and former American Society of Home Inspectors-certified home inspector. Write to Zolton B. Cohen, ...

Willie Veal had big-league dreams.

A building at a former school on Rocky Creek Road may be filled again with children.

Split council adopts new residential code
Waukegan News Sun
A vote on an ordinance to create the Office of Building Commissioner and Manufactured Home Inspector was tabled for further clarification of job duties and ...

Business profile: A Pro Home Inspection Services
Chambersburg Public Opinion
Staff: The business is operated by certified home inspector William Fennel, CHI/PHI, and marketing manager Lacey Shearer. Background: A Pro Home Inspection ...

Foundations: Don't wait until you hear the creaking
Seattle Times
"My home inspector said my house had no problems," said Steven Derse, who bought his house in Nashville, Tenn., in 2002. "Then it started to move and fell ...

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Find the best contractors when putting your home on the market
NewsOK.com
Engage the services of a home inspector to catalog your issues. It should be quite easy for you and your listing agent to go through your home and identify ...

Inspection milestone
Alton Telegraph
Just a few years after choosing to switch careers and become a home inspector in 1993, he found he was steadily finding work and decided to start counting ...

Good man to deal with
Anderson Independent Mail
The roofing job got an excellent rating from a professional home inspector. Mr. Coe took the time to call the Monday following the installation to see if I ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A frigid Florida winter is taking its toll on your sandwich. The Sunshine State is the main U.S. source for fresh winter tomatoes, and its growers lost about 70 percent of their crop during January’s prolonged cold snap.

Ray De Riggi, president of Dole Fresh Vegetables, will be speaking at Macon State College at 5:30 p.m. Thursday.

The Greater Macon Chamber of Commerce’s annual meeting Friday night was not only a time to reflect on the past year and go over plans for the future but also to award people who have contributed to the community.

WARNER ROBINS — The Houston County market has more than weathered the real estate storm but still faces some challenges, speakers told a gathering of brokers and agents Friday. One of those challenges is a looming shortage of new homes — long a driving force in real estate sales in the area.

Why are the mansions of one of America’s richest women sitting vacant? Click to follow this photo narrative of the reclusive Huguette Clark and her father, William Andrews Clark, the "Paris millionaire senator." Where is Huguette Clark? And what will become of her fortune?

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Exeter Adult Education offers courses
Exeter News-Letter
Includes Q & A sessions with an attorney, appraiser, home inspector, insurance agent, broker and loan officer and a complimentary credit report. ...

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Reality TV star in his element with women
London Free Press
Ask for a minimum of 20 references from a contractor, painter, home inspector. "Check them out. If they don't have references you shouldn't be talking to ...