Mix-up sees wrong home shuttered
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A woman returns from a weekend away to find shutters on her house because the council thinks it has been abandoned.
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The operators of a group home destroyed in a fatal fire were recently threatened with the loss of their state license to serve the mentally ill at two affiliated homes, The Associated Press has learned.
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Here's an uncomfortable housing scenario that's getting more common in this soft market: You put in a contract on a new house. You can't sell your old house. The sellers are getting pushy.
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By Paul Dellinger paul.dellinger@roanoke.com (276) 228-4752  The upper floor of one rental building had collapsed into the bathroom below it. A support for an outdoor deck had a single brick holding it in place at the bottom. Another deck was propped up, literally, with a crutch.
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There's always a snag. The cabinet shows up in  the wrong size. The plumber is delayed at another job. The inspector fails to appear on the appointed day.
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A couple in Pagosa Springs, Colo., was threatened with fines by their homeownersÂ association unless they removed a wreath shaped like a peace symbol.
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There are two homes for sale in my neighborhood. One has curb appeal, the other does not. Both are the same four-bedroom model.
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Someone else is running out of things to close.
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By Pam Firmin, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Jun. 8--PASS CHRISTIAN -- If anybody assumes a contractor's house will be the first one repaired -- or rebuilt, they're likely to be wrong.
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DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. - A woman came home from vacation to find a stranger living there, wearing her clothes, changing utilities into her name and even ripping out carpet and repainting a room she didn't like, authorities said.
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By Eric Ferreri, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Feb. 24--DURHAM -- In a lawsuit, a Durham man is disputing a January decision by county commissioners that blocked a townhouse development off Farrington Road.
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A plan by landowners to build a house in Truro, Mass., has angered residents who say the house will obstruct a view made famous by the artist Edward Hopper.
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A woman came home from vacation to find a stranger living there, wearing her clothes, changing utilities into her name and even ripping out carpet and repainting a room she didn't like, authorities said.
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It's like witnessing the sale of the humble home in which you grew up and experienced all the changes of youth. It's like the shuttering of the neighborhood restaurant where your family always gathered to plan, celebrate, and sometimes mourn.
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Move follows government's failure to to find buyer for stricken mortgage lender
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The body of a missing woman is found in her home, despite the property being searched by police when she vanished.
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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - A burglar who made himself at home after a break-in overstayed his visit, police said. Larcellus Angelo Scott, 23, had ordered a pizza and was doing a load of laundry Wednesday when Denise Bealessio returned home from work.