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Researching your home's past could pay off
Brent Stevens appreciates history. That's one reason he and his wife, Vicki, purchased an 1840s-era home in Constantine, Mich., in 1999.

Tenant-parking repeal may be retaliatory
Q: I have a lease that doesn't say anything about pets. My landlord wants me to agree to a new clause prohibiting pets without his consent, but I refused to sign the amended lease, because I was planning on getting a dog.

The case for buying a home now
A notorious housing market bear has changed his tune. Yes, he says, now is a good time to buy a home, if …

Information and education aid remodel negotiations
Before you begin a remodeling project, you need estimates. Getting them requires research into materials, appliances, colors, finishes and, of course, prices. Sort out the pieces, and then comes the really hard part: finding someone to put all the pieces together.

News anchor sells North Side condo
Former WMAQ-Ch. 5 sports anchor and reporter Paula Faris and her husband, John Krueger, have sold their four-bedroom duplex condominium unit in the North Side's Bowmanville neighborhood for $350,000.

A cure for cabin fever
When it's cold outside, activities heat up at condos and apartments

Whether you're cocooning or stuck inside, condo amenities help while away winter days

Condo board cuts cord on alarm
Q: I have concerns about changes to a security monitoring system in my town house development.

Tame your garden with well-behaved natives
Serene and stationary in a centerpiece or outdoor container, Oriental bittersweet (Celastrus orbiculatus) appears innocent. But when set loose in a natural area, this aggressive vine quickly forms a patch of tangled stems where nothing else can live.

A condo code of ethics
Board members know they aren't supposed to run off with their community association's reserve funds. That's an obvious conflict of interest, and illegal, to boot.

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