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This Hurricane Season Has Gone Eerily, Almost Unnervingly Quiet for the First Time in Sixty Years According to NOAA, and Insurance Experts Warn One Late Storm Could Wipe out That False Sense of Security Overnight
Five tropical storms. That is the entire tally for the Atlantic through the first week of September, and every one of them fizzled out fast. It is the slowest start […]
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Selena Gomez Just Sold Her Former Encino Estate, Once Home to Rock Legend Tom Petty, for $5.4 Million, and the Kitchen Was Actually the Secret Set of Her Own HBO Max Cooking Show
Selena Gomez has closed the sale on her longtime Encino estate for $5.4 million, a full $1 million under her original asking price, according to Hoodline. The deal closed September […]
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Nearly One In Five Companies Say Relocating Employees Turned Down A New Job Transfer Because Their Old House Would Not Sell In Time According To New Survey Data
Nearly one in five relocating employees who turn down a job transfer cite one specific reason: they can’t get their current house sold or off their hands. According to the […]
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Several Popular Smart Locks Are Failing Basic Break In Tests And Consumer Reports Says The Real Weak Point Is Almost Never The Lock Itself
Several of the most popular smart locks on the market are failing basic break-in resistance tests, and according to lab testing, the flaw usually isn’t the lock’s electronics at all. […]
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Smart Thermostats Promise Double Digit Energy Savings But A New Field Study Of Over A Thousand Real Households Found Almost No Difference At All
Smart thermostats are marketed with savings claims as high as 26% off heating and cooling bills. A field experiment covering 1,385 households found the devices produced no statistically significant energy […]
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Small Space Renter Says The One Sofa Every List Told Her To Buy First Turned Out To Be The Biggest Regret Of Her Entire Apartment Redesign
Holly Phillips moved into a small rental apartment and did what most people are told to do first: buy the furniture that everyone recommends for a compact living room. It […]
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Couple Who Bought A Neglected Nineteen Eighties Estate Home Spent Three Years Uncovering Hidden Code Violations Before Finally Sharing Their Complete Room By Room Transformation Online
Ross and Georgie Kidder thought they were buying a dated but livable 1980s estate home outside Los Angeles. What they actually bought was a three-year renovation that would tear the […]
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Long-Distance Moving Costs Keep Climbing, and Movers Say Fuel Surcharges Are Only a Small Part of the Real Reason Why
Moving across the country is getting noticeably more expensive, with recent surveys putting the average long-distance move at $4,401, according to Angi’s 2026 moving trends report, and $4,566 for a […]
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Homeowners Insurance Premiums Are Rising at the Highest Rate in More Than a Decade, and the States Getting Hit Hardest Aren’t the Ones You’d Guess
The average homeowner is now paying more for insurance than at any point in recent memory, and 47% of policyholders saw their premium rise in the past year — the […]
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Music Producer Who Recently Bought a Sprawling Beverly Hills Estate Is Paying Property Taxes That Alone Cost More Than the Median American Household Earns in an Entire Year
Grammy-winning music producer Benny Blanco and his wife, singer Selena Gomez, closed on a $35 million Beverly Hills estate in December 2024 — and the property tax bill that comes […]