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Best of Dayton 2022 winners: Home Improvement
Best Bathroom Remodeler First place: ImproveIt Home Remodeling 7200 Poe Ave., Suite 102, Dayton Second place: JEM Designs 3979 Indian Ripple Rd., Dayton Third place: Zengel Group Building & Remodeling 85 Compark Rd., Dayton Best Building Contractor First place: JEM Designs 3979 Indian Ripple Rd., Dayton Second place: Zengel Group Building & Remodeling 85 Compark Rd., Dayton Third place: Greater Dayton Construction Group 4197 Research Blvd., Beavercreek Best Carpet Cleaner First place: Stanley Steemer 824 Space Dr., Beavercreek Second place: Triton Steam Cleaning 7942 OH-48, Waynesville Third place: Transformations Plus 92 Compark Rd., Suite 2, Centerville Best Commercial/Residential Landscaper First place: Siebenthaler’s Multiple area locations Second place: Grunder Landscaping Co.…
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Joan Didion’s Estate Sale Items Paint a Picture of Her Life
Joan Didion, who died last year at 87, famously never used a decorator. The only interior design advice she admitted to taking came from her daughter, Quintana Roo Dunne. “I hope you California it up,” Quintana told her parents when she saw the New York City apartment they bought in 1988, after 24 years in Los Angeles. The move happened fast: The West Coast home Ms. Didion shared with her husband, the writer John Gregory Dunne, sold the same day it was listed, and the Upper East Side apartment they bought was the first one they saw. “We felt stale, settled, restless,” the couple said, explaining their move in a…
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The Home Depot werewolf is getting howls of approval
Move over, Tall Bones, and make room for an animatronic, subliminally sexy, 9-foot-tall howler who has marked his territory on America’s front lawns. October 27, 2022 at 10:08 a.m. EDT Jill Houser’s Halloween display in Pittsburgh features a giant animatronic werewolf. (Jeff Swensen for The Washington Post) Comment on this story Comment Angela Rush already has the 12-foot Home Depot skeleton, and a whole bunch of regular-size ones, too. She has a nearly full-size hearse carriage drawn by skeleton horses, a massive tarantula, a 12-foot pumpkin-headed “inferno” skeleton, a dragon and numerous light up pumpkins. She has so many Halloween decorations that she has to rent a storage unit, and…
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Why real estate is plummeting, but not everywhere.
This article is from Full Stack Economics, a newsletter about the economy, technology, and public policy. In March 2021, a woman in the D.C. area put her house on the market and got 88 bids—including 76 all-cash offers and 15 from people who hadn’t bothered to visit the property in person. “The offers just kept coming,” she told CNN at the time. “I’m thinking, ‘This is just out of control.’ ” That frothy, oozing-over-the-top market has been over for a few months now, and new data suggest that we might be entering a very different type of housing market. Home prices in the United States fell by 1.1 percent between…
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Young Buyers Focus on Investment Properties to Build Wealth
A growing amount of youthful grown ups are charting a unique path toward making prosperity as a result of homeownership, prioritizing getting an expenditure house before a major home, in accordance to a new survey by Mynd, a firm that leverages technologies instruments to assist traders acquire, finance and regulate one-family rental qualities. Forty-a few p.c of people younger than 40 say they are thinking about becoming “rentvestors,” who continue to rent their have home even though shoring up income from an financial investment residence, Mynd’s 2022 Buyer Insights Report exhibits. That compares to just 9{d4d1dfc03659490934346f23c59135b993ced5bc8cc26281e129c43fe68630c9} of toddler boomers and 27{d4d1dfc03659490934346f23c59135b993ced5bc8cc26281e129c43fe68630c9} of Gen Xers who are utilizing the exact same…
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Okay, I Promise To Always Hire A Professional After Seeing These Absolutely Catastrophic DIY Fails
Okay, I Promise To Always Hire A Professional After Seeing These Absolutely Catastrophic DIY Fails If you ever feel bad about your own awful home improvement skills, just remember… 1. At least you didn’t leave your bedroom looking like a crime scene while painting: 2. At least you didn’t put your ceiling fan in fan prison: 3. At least this isn’t the first thing you see every single morning: 4. At least your lamp isn’t forever yearning to be free: 5. At least you didn’t learn about how truly different various types of paint can be: 6. At least you won’t have a heart attack every time you leave your…
