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How To Recover From A Home Fire

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Andi has a blog about her house burning to the ground in the Boulder wildfires of 2010 and it brings tears to my eyes. Don’t Re-Enter Your Home Until Cleared By The Fire Department. You will find that things the fire did not burn up are now ruined by smoke and soggy with water used to put out the flames.

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Save Money – Develop Important Home Owner Skills

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

To get the best contractor to re-roof your house, you have to negotiate. They wanted all new furniture for their home so they shopped around to find the store they wanted to use. Perhaps the city wants to use your land for some public work and invokes eminent domain laws to take an easement. Everything is negotiable.