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Latest News
- A Lot More Choices Over Your Head
Category: Real Estate
Publish Date: 12-18-2007 01:43 PM -0800
Shopping for a new roof might not be as much fun as picking out kitchen cabinets, but it's an unavoidable task of homeownership. [more]
- Little Samples of Solar's Future
Category: Real Estate
Publish Date: 12-18-2007 01:43 PM -0800
They sure weren't the kind of homes that we're used to seeing around here. The 20 prototype solar-powered houses built on the Mall for the Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon earlier this month...[more]
- Reprieve for the 'Piggybackers': Still No Credit-Score Crackdown
Category: Real Estate
Publish Date: 12-18-2007 01:43 PM -0800
"Piggyback" credit-score-inflation schemes for mortgage applicants haven't been reined in, despite industry pledges to do so at the end of the summer. As a result, lenders continue to be misled...[more]
- At Kentlands, New Urbanism Has Unlocked a Sense of Community
Category: Real Estate
Publish Date: 12-18-2007 01:43 PM -0800
Can a sense of community, that elusive quality that home buyers everywhere say they want, be created by the way a housing development is laid out? [more]
- Untangling the Branches of Tree Law
Category: Real Estate
Publish Date: 12-18-2007 01:43 PM -0800
If the roots of your neighbor's tree are damaging your property, what legal rights do you have? It depends on where you live. [more]
- Sharing a Neighbor's Well Calls for a Contract
Category: Real Estate
Publish Date: 12-18-2007 01:43 PM -0800
Q: Our neighbors are planning to drill a well and put in an irrigation system. They have asked us whether we would like to install an irrigation system and, if so, to tap into their well and help...[more]
- Surviving Trials of Time and Fire
Category: Real Estate
Publish Date: 12-18-2007 01:43 PM -0800
Nancy Metzger was out for a stroll one balmy October day when a man stopped her on the street and asked, "Nancy, where's the Eastern Market neighborhood?" [more]
- Laytonsville Pulls from Past to Cast Future
Category: Real Estate
Publish Date: 12-18-2007 01:43 PM -0800
Recognizing that change is inevitable, the residents of Laytonsville are trying to get a handle on the tiny town's coming housing boom before it transforms their community into something...[more]
- Now Gardens Bare Their Secrets to Buyers
Category: Real Estate
Publish Date: 12-18-2007 01:43 PM -0800
Washington gardens may not be at their best this time of year, but that shouldn't deter house hunters from giving them serious attention. [more]
- Spice Up the Condo Meetings
Category: Real Estate
Publish Date: 12-18-2007 01:42 PM -0800
Q: Herndon: I have recently moved into a condo and noticed that maybe 1 percent of owners show up for monthly meetings. Are there any ways we can boost attendance at condo association meetings?...[more]
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