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How To Recover From A Home Fire

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Really, all you have left, if you are lucky enough not to be home, are the clothes on your back and the things you had with you when you left to run that errand, go on that visit or go to work. Andi has a blog about her house burning to the ground in the Boulder wildfires of 2010 and it brings tears to my eyes. Nothing left at all.

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Save Money – Develop Important Home Owner Skills

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Perhaps the city wants to use your land for some public work and invokes eminent domain laws to take an easement. If you pay full price, you are probably being taken.Americans historically have not haggled for. You will want to know how to challenge the new appraisal and avoid spending more tax money.