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The Essential Questions About Utilities You Need to Ask When Buying a House
Once they’ve found a place they love, most home shoppers shift to considering the hard numbers: The selling price or the monthly rent, the estimated taxes, the square footage, their mortgage rate, etc. Often lost in the shuffle are questions about the utilities—the gas, electricity, water, and internet services that power a home and make it comfortable and livable. Utilities…
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How to Keep Annoying Bugs Away From Your House and Yard
Yellow jackets can sting and cause allergic reactions, and ants can potentially damage your house. Here are tips from CR’s insect repellent expert, Chris Regan, and from Jody Gangloff-Kaufmann, PhD, associate director of Cornell University’s Community & Urban IPM Program, on how to banish a variety of bugs from your yard and home. To reveal each tip, click the dots…
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White House condemns Europe’s ‘extortion’ of Apple and Meta – Computerworld
Will the future be better tomorrow? In this kind of context, the idea that relationships may become worse before they get better isn’t just a problem waiting to happen. It appears to be a problem that’s already here. Like a squawking duck, this particular sequence of events certainly seems to be forming up to become exactly what it sounds like…
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Reports: White House mulling DeepSeek ban amid investigation
Reports suggest US President Donald Trump is considering banning DeepSeek amid an investigation into the AI developer. The administration is considering banning US citizens from using DeepSeek, according to three sources familiar with the matter, the New York Times reported. Chinese AI firm DeepSeek shocked the AI industry in January when it released a more efficient model that competed with…
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Six Psychological Traps to Avoid When House Hunting
Buying a house has always been a stressful experience. It involves a lot of money for most people, and it’s where you’re going to live, the most meaningful space in your life. Finding the house that ticks all the financial, physical, and emotional boxes can be a challenge. And it’s a challenge that a lot of people fail: 82% of…
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10 Warning Signs That Someone Incompetent (or Unethical) Is Flipping a House
If you’re in the market for a new home, there’s a pretty good chance you’ve toured a few “flipped” houses—properties that were recently purchased, quickly renovated, and just as quickly put back on the market. Even amid the current real estate crunch, house flipping remains a popular business model: In the first quarter of 2024, 67,817 houses were flipped, which…
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Trump White House appeals to right-wing new media with ‘Podcast Row’
On Thursday, several conservative podcasters were invited to the White House to participate in Podcast Row, an event meant to engage alternative media by granting them hours of unprecedented access to senior Trump Administration officials. The White House intends to make this a recurring event. “Bringing in new media outlets has obviously been a priority of this administration and we…
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The Most Important Things You Should Know About Your House
There are about 85 million single-family homes in the United States, which is a lot of houses. If you own one of them, then you already know what you don’t know—from real estate terms to the actual cost of owning the place. Buying and maintaining a house is a life-long learning process. But no matter how long you’ve owned your…
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Six Ways to Prevent a Contractor From Damaging Your House During a Renovation
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Home renovations are expensive—and exciting. It’s never cheap to rip out the old and install the brand-new, but a quality renovation can turn your house into a dream home, or at least solve some nagging problems that have bothered you for years. While not every renovation project gives you the…
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How Often Should You Change the Filters in Your House?
Air PurifiersMost air purifiers have a filter indicator (often a light) that alerts you when the filter should be checked and possibly replaced. Though you can simply wipe down most prefilters, the main HEPA filter should be replaced about every six to 12 months, or as your manual advises. We factor this expense—new filters can cost between $50 and $100…
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