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Home improvement projects turn into nightmares with local contractor | 3 Investigates
BOSSIER CITY, La. – Imagine paying $60,000 to have some work done on your house and months later the only thing you have to show for it is a house with parts of the roof ripped off and your home exposed to the elements. “This spot right here in the living room area is due to them falling through the ceiling,” said a south Bossier resident, who asked not to be identified. “This is water damage. Also, they fell in and as you can see they didn’t even cover the entire thing back up. … They fell through this area right here. Where this area is cut out, that entire…
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Keep the spirits, not the home, burning bright | Local News
Scott Buchanan is setting up an artificial tree in his home this year, for the first time. He expects it will be safer. “The fake ones have to go through certain testing,” he said last week. “All lights and electrical stuff are all tested and up to the standard.” In previous years, Buchanan, a Cortland Fire Department captain, used a potted, living tree for Christmas as a safer alternative. “But they dry out no matter how much you water,” he said. “Look at forest fires: They’re still alive and they burn.” Decking the halls and lighting the Christmas tree brightens up homes for the holidays, but also leads to hundreds of house fires every…
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Home & Garden Digest | Local plant sales are sprouting – Santa Cruz Sentinel
SANTA CRUZ The annual Joe Ghio Iris Sale is Saturday Joe Ghio of Bay Perspective Gardens is having his 16th Annual “One Hour Iris Sale” of his conclusion-of-the-season surplus irises on Saturday. The sale is from 9-10 a.m. at 1201 Bay St. in Santa Cruz. There will be a fantastic range of the newest and most well-known tall bearded iris rhizomes hybridized by Ghio and some of the top hybridizers in the area. Most rhizomes are $5 every. Are living OAK Backyard garden Exchange hosts September trade The Santa Cruz Backyard Exchange will consider a spot from 8-9 a.m. Saturday at the Live Oak Grange, 1900 17th Ave. Santa Cruz.…
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The LUXE Group at Oceans Luxury Continues to Smash Local Sales Records
ORMOND Seaside, Fla., Oct. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The LUXE Group, a luxurious serious estate gross sales crew at Oceans Luxury Realty, has established nevertheless a further regional income report almost particularly one yr following their 1st file-smashing sale. In Oct of 2020, The LUXE Team set the document for the maximum solitary family members ocean front dwelling sale selling price ever recorded in Ormond Seashore, with the sale of 489 Ocean Shore Blvd for $3,200,000 (3.2 Million Dollars). Now, they have set the file for maximum single-relatives household sale price tag at any time recorded in all of Volusia County at $5,117,000 (5.117 Million Pounds) for an ocean entrance…
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$3,500 restitution ordered in home improvement fraud | Local News
A Bledsoe County person gained judicial diversion soon after pleading responsible to property enhancement fraud but as element of that diversion, is to fork out $3,500 restitution to the target. That situation was just one of dozens appearing on the probation violation docket of Oct. 1. The responsible plea is currently being set apart, less than conditions of diversion, and if probation conditions are productively satisfied, the defendant will be capable to petition the court docket to have the demand eradicated from his permanent history. If Isaac Houston Butler, Cedar Rd., Pikeville, does not effectively complete terms of diversion, he could be necessary to provide two years in jail at…
