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59The air we breathe -- in the bathroom
Production homebuilders sometimes will choose the least expensive items to install in their homes to keep costs low when building hundreds of home per year. Such is likely the case with your bathroom fans,...
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58Disney's "Back to the Future" of Housing
That line from the classic movie, The Graduate shows a scene from Benjamin’s graduation party. “It’s plastics, my boy – now there’s the future . . ., ” was indeed a sign of the times when the...
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62Tree Hugging Alternatives to Traditional Lumber
How about building your home with shrubs? A species known as Western juniper (considered by many a worthless desert weed throughout parts of Oregon, Idaho and California) has now become one of the most...
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53Carpets Cast Ghostly Dilemma
It’s absolutely ghostly, but you may define it as ghastly. It’s carpet ghosts. Your home is only a year old and your light-colored carpeting has taken on a dark line at the perimeter of every room and...
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49Facing a Hurricane Head-on
A big one was named Katrina. They also have names like Fay, Gustav and Hanna. Hurricane season makes the news each and every year. And each year, American ingenuity tries to find ways to protect people...
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57What's Behind YOUR Walls and Ceilings?
Insulation, the material between the walls of our houses, is not a popular topic of conversation at parties these days, but it definitely undergoing metamorphosis within the building industry-- replacing the...
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53Loading Up Your New House with Resale Potential
Can you tell just by looking whether a new home community will eventually become a good resale area in the future? What is the formula that can assure you that the neighborhood will age well, keeping values...
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49Location is No Accident in Real Estate
The real estate community has contended for decades that real estate is all about “location, location, location” – but what may be paradise to some buyers may look like purgatory to another just...
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48The Governator Hugs a Green Future
Since California has historically been first on so many other fronts, it may come as no surprise that we also became the first state in the nation to adopt a building code for green construction practices. ...
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64Building a Home NOW: Things to Consider
The real estate market -- driven by buyers right now -- is the straw that stirs the soup when deciding to build your own home, just as it would be if you were thinking of buying a re-sale home or a...
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