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Tips for finding your contractor
After the hurricane, the real work begins — if there is damage to your property. Assess the damage and write a list to give to your insurance company. Before you hire a contractor: • Find out what your property insurance will cover. At the...
Tags: House Building, Services and Shopping, General Contracting
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Village hikes permit fees, and more
Village hikes permit fees Starting June 1, building permit fees in Lake Zurich will be raised about 10 percent after village officials approved the increase at a recent board meeting. Dan Peterson, director of building and zoning for the village, said...Tags: Building Material, House Building, Services and Shopping, Vehicles
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Top 10 Best-Selling Cars: May 2013
KickingTiresThe last time Ford sold 70,000 F-Series pickups in a single month was March 2007 when unemployment was just 4.4%. The best-selling truck eclipsed that mark again in May 2013, gaining 30.6% to hit 71,604 sales. That's the best May......Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Consumer Confidence, Prices, Automotive Equipment, Services and Shopping
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Small drop in gasoline prices dents used hybrid, electric car values
Gasoline prices are only slightly below levels set in 2011 and 2012, according to Energy Department statistics. But even a relatively small decline is enough to dent the used car auction prices of hybrid vehicles and the retained value of electric...
Tags: Kelley Blue Book LLC, Prius, Chrysler, Prices, Petroleum Industry
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WRAPUP 2-U.S. home prices accelerate by most in seven years
Reuters* Home prices up 10.9 percent in March from year before * Consumer confidence index rises to 76.2 in May By Leah Schnurr NEW YORK, May 28 (Reuters) - U.S. home prices accelerated by the most in nearly seven years in March while consumer confidence...Tags: Money and Monetary Policy, Stock Market, Economy, Inventories, Consumer Confidence
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Homebuilders can't find enough qualified workers
U.S. builders and the subcontractors they depend on are struggling to hire fast enough to meet rising demand for new homes. Builders would be starting work on more homes — and contributing more to the economy — if they could fill more job...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Migration, Princeton University, Work Relations, U.S. Congress
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Home builders struggling to find enough construction workers
The real estate bust idled hundreds of thousands of construction workers. Now, with housing on the mend, builders are hiring again. Trouble is, many workers aren't coming back. Years of sporadic employment drove many from the industry. Incomes aren'...
Tags: Mexico, Immigration, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Petroleum Industry, Employment
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Ply Gem shares rise in NYSE debut
Reuters(Reuters) - Shares of building products maker Ply Gem Holdings Inc rose as much as 14 percent in their market debut, valuing the company at about $1.55 billion, as investors tap into companies catering to the recovering U.S. housing market. Ply Gem...Tags: Stock Market, Financing and Stock Offerings, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Finance, Robin Williams
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Home Depot boosts profit, sales as housing market improves
Spring was waiting in the wings longer than expected, but the recuperating housing market was enough to boost Home Depot Inc.’s first-quarter earnings above Wall Street’s expectations. For the period ended May 5, the largest home-improvement...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, The Home Depot, Economy, Business and Finance, Earnings Forecasts, Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements
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Bangladesh panel to recommend life in prison over building collapse
ReutersBy Serajul Quadir DHAKA, May 21 (Reuters) - A committee investigating a deadly collapse of a building housing garment factories in Bangladesh will recommend that nine people detained in connection with the disaster be sentenced to life in prison, the...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Prisons, Dhaka (Bangladesh), House Building, Plant Openings
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In federal prison, ol' Bulldog faces sensual shock
If the federal prison that gets Tavon White is anything like the last one I visited, even a charmer such as Bulldog will have a tough time recreating the life of the libertine he had at the Baltimore City Detention Center. White, a reputed leader of...
Tags: Gang Activity, Drug Trafficking, Trials, Government, Prosecution
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Housing starts fall 16.5% in April, but building permits jump
WASHINGTON -- Housing starts dropped 16.5% in April to the lowest level since November, but permits for future construction rose to a nearly five-year high, providing mixed signals for the red-hot real estate market. Construction on privately owned...
Tags: Real Estate, House Building, Services and Shopping
May 28, 2013
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May 29, 2013
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May 28, 2013
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May 10, 2013
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May 8, 2013
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May 23, 2013
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May 21, 2013
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May 21, 2013
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May 18, 2013
|Column| Baltimore Sun
May 16, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
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