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When shopping for an existing home, homebuyers are limited to making the best choice among houses available in their chosen area while they are in the market. This is not necessarily a bad thing as choosing an existing home works out well for the vast majority of buyers. For those...
DIY – Do It Yourself – is a popular practice among homeowners and there are plenty of commercial interests that make it easier – most of the time. At the top of the pile is an entire television network devoted to DIY. Shows feature inexperienced homeowners being led through home...
Selling a home is never easy and economic events of the past few years have made it even more difficult in many parts of the country. The climate for home sales has improved some, but it’s still a buyer’s market and home sellers have to do everything possible to make...
Can I Install Drain Tile Myself? Why DIY Can Become DON’T Drain tile is one of the best solutions for a basement water problem. Installed inside the basement it relieves hydrostatic pressure under the foundation and eliminates two very common sources of seepage – water coming through cracks in the floor...
Buying a home, especially for the first time, is a huge undertaking. A bad choice or missed sign of trouble can result in costly repairs or financial losses at resale so homebuyers are well-advised to be painstaking in their search. There are lots of “red flags” that homebuyers are urged...
“It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity!” That phrase has been said so many times it has lost almost all meaning but the thought behind it is true – humidity is uncomfortable and, when it occurs inside a house on a sustained basis, can cause health problems for a home’s...
The history of Mount Prospect begins with a failed entrepreneur. In the 1870’s a settler named Ezra Eggleston purchased a large tract of land northwest of Chicago that encompassed most of today’s village of Mount Prospect. He platted out a town, built roads and constructed a train station in hopes...
Most homeowners don’t spend a lot of time thinking about their home’s foundations. They’re below ground and don’t require painting or cleaning or lubrication – they just sit there, day after day, and hold up the house. For the most part, this is OK. Barring extreme circumstances of weather and/or...
One of the more famous axioms in American language originated with that bountiful source of quotes himself, Benjamin Franklin. Among many witty truisms, Franklin famously said that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Of course, Franklin was writing in advocacy of establishing a fire department, which...
The village of Oak Lawn can trace its history back to the early 19th Century but truly came into being in 1859 when the newly formed Worth Township financed the construction of Black Oak Grove Road, now known as 95th Street. This thoroughfare began to draw residential and commercial...
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