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55% Sales of newly built homes surged 55% year-over-year in June – the highest pace of sales growth in homebuilding since the housing boom back in 2005 and 2006.
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he refused to tell us based on the sellers’ “confidentiality concerns.” Don’t we have the right to know why the property is being offered at such a low price? ANSWER: No, you’re not entitled to know why the sellers are moving nor the reason why they apparently set their offering price so low. You can certainly pose those questions to both the agent and the homeowners themselves, but they aren’t legally obligated to answer them. Owners and their sales agents are often reluctant to disclose the reason for a sale. Some
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Planning now for fall vegetable gardening HOME GROWN KEITH REED
Being prepared to cover or insulate plants for one or two nights can often extend the fall growing season for several weeks. This can be done on an individual plant basis for small gardens. It can also be easily done on a larger scale using season-extending techniques such as
low tunnels. A low tunnel is a simple structure, usually constructed out of small diameter PVC pipe, that allows you to drape insulating fabric or plastic over the crops. Low tunnels can also extend the growing system in spring, by warming the soil and preventing damage
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If you are frustrated with growing vegetables through our challenging Oklahoma summers, or even if you’ve mastered the art and just wish you could extend the growing season, consider fall gardening. By overcoming a couple of key hurdles, residents of our area can successfully grow many garden crops well into late October, or even in November some years. The three biggest challenges to successful fall gardens are locating seeds or starts, getting seedlings off to a good start with very high soil temperatures, and preventing damage from early cold fronts. Fall gardening is not a big enough business in Oklahoma for most garden retailers to stock seedlings or starter plants. Even finding seeds can sometimes be a challenge so you’ll need to plan ahead and perhaps even consider growing your own starter plants indoors. As August is just around the corner, this piece of advice is a little late for this year, just keep in mind when it’s spring seed buying time as they will easily store through the summer months under refrigeration. Overcoming high soil temperatures can be managed a few different ways. OSU Fact Sheet #HLA6009 Fall Gardening, offers some helpful options for protecting new seedlings by
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After years of decline starting in the late 1990s, manufactured housing has been gaining in popularity over the past few years. Unlike site-built homes, which are directly constructed on a plot of land, manufactured homes are pre-assembled in factories and then transported to the location where they will be used. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are currently 6.8 million manufactured homes across the country. The demand for manufactured housing has fluctuated over time, often coinciding with changes in borrowing requirements for mortgage applicants. For example, the number of manufactured housing shipments experienced a steep decline between 2000 and 2009, when home buyers had easier access to mortgage loans leading up to the subprime mortgage crisis. The share of new manufactured homes compared to all new single-family homes decreased from its peak of 25 percent in 1996 to only 7.8 percent in 2006. As of 2019, about 10 percent of new single-family homes are categorized as manufactured homes. One of the biggest
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What to do with your stuff the kids don’t want By Liz Weston NerdWallet
OPINION Personal property appraisers, found through the American Society of Appraisers or the International Society of Appraisers, can help people determine what might be worth selling. But not everyone feels comfortable having strangers in their homes right now. Most appraisers need to see and touch objects to determine values, although some, including Hall, will work virtually to appraise common items such as vintage lamps, old cameras, costume jewelry and figurines. “People just wanted to email me a few photos and needed a quick answer whether it was valuable or not so they could just get rid of it and not feel bad about it,” she says. People can use auction sites such as eBay to estimate values, but they should check the most recent “sold” listings, Hall says.
“Anybody can ask the sun and the moon,” she says. “You need (to know) what are things selling for presently.” EVERYTHING ELSE Owners of sterling silver flatware, china and crystal may be able to sell individual pieces to Replacements Ltd., a tableware retailer that makes purchases through an online process, Stewart says. The value of books often can be established with an internet search or by visiting Biblio.com, a marketplace for rare, out-of-print and collectible books. If you’re comfortable with people coming to your home or garage, you can list items for sale on Craigslist or neighborhood apps such as Nextdoor. Those are good sites to list items you want to give away, too, and many communities have Freecycle groups to help you find homes for unwanted items.
Charities such as Goodwill, Salvation Army, St. Vincent de Paul and Vietnam Veterans of America accept a wide variety of household items, including clothing and furniture, and some will pick up donations. Charities are often selective about what they’ll accept, and many were inundated when pandemic lockdowns lifted. It’s best to call or check the local organization’s website to see what is and isn’t being accepted. Furniture can be donated to Habitat for Humanity or to a charity associated with the Furniture Bank Network. Habitat also accepts new and gently used appliances, building materials and household goods. Stewart encourages her clients to look for potential recipients more locally, as well. Domestic violence shelters, refugee services and housing authorities may need clothes, furniture and
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and extended family members could use an item, particularly those with sentimental or emotional attachments. “It’s much more palatable for people to give to someone they know than to give to a faceless organization,” Stewart says. “You don’t wake up at 3 in the morning and say, ‘Should I have really given that thing away?’” Email: lweston@ nerdwallet.com. Twitter: @lizweston.
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Parents who are downsizing or simply decluttering may have to get creative at finding homes for all their unwanted possessions – particularly these days. The generations that came after the baby boom are famously less interested than their predecessors in the trappings of domestic life, says Elizabeth Stewart, author of “No Thanks Mom: The Top Ten Objects Your Kids Do NOT Want (and What To Do With Them).” Gen Xers and millennials often don’t want to polish silver or hand wash china, Stewart says. They’re also typically not interested in dark, heavy furniture, books, photo albums, vintage linens or someone else’s collections. It’s hard enough for parents to realize that their adult kids
don’t want their stuff. The next challenge is figuring out what to do with it all. PANDEMIC VALUES Some of what parents own may have real value, but finding buyers right now can be a challenge, says estate appraiser Julie Hall, author of “Inheriting Clutter: How to Calm the Chaos Your Parents Leave Behind.” “During these times where people are concerned and worried, they’re not going to be opening their wallets quite as much as they would have,” Hall says. Even before the pandemic and recession, many items that people thought were valuable really weren’t, Stewart says. Steamer trunks, antique sewing machines, Persian rugs, old books and silver-plated objects are among the items that may seem rare and costly but typically aren’t, she says. EXPERT
Rich spew more carbon pollution at home than poor ronmental scientist at the University of Michigan. “There seems to be a small Rich Americans produce nearly 25% group of people that more heat-trapping are inflicting most of the damage to be gases than poorer honest.” people at home, In Beverly Hills, according to a comthe average person prehensive study puts four times as of U.S. residential much heat-trapping carbon footprints. Scientists studied gases into the air as someone living 93 million housing in South Central units in the nation Los Angeles, where to analyze how incomes are only much greenhouse a small fraction as gases are being spewed in different much. Similarly, in Massachusetts, the locations and by average person in income, according wealthy Sudbury to a study pubspews 9,700 pounds lished Monday in of greenhouse gases the Proceedings of into the air each the National Acadyear, while the emy of Sciences. average person in Residential carbon emissions comprise the much poorer Dorchester neighclose to one-fifth borhood in Boston of global warming puts out 2,227 gases emitted by the burning of coal, pounds a year. “That is the key oil and natural gas. message about Using federal emissions patterns,” definitions of insaid University come level, the of California San study found that Diego climate polienergy use by the cy professor David average higher income person’s home Victor, who wasn’t part of the study. puts out 6,482 “I think it raises pounds of greenhouse gases a year. fundamental justice For a person in the questions in a socilower income level, ety that has huge the amount is 5,225 income inequality.” Even though pounds, the study richer Americans calculated. produce more “The numbers don’t lie. They show heat-trapping gases, “the poor that (with) people are more exposed who are wealthier generally, there’s a to the dangers of the climate crisis, tendency for their houses to be bigger like heat waves, more likely to have and their greenhouse gas emissions chronic medical problems that make tend to be higher,” them more at risk said study lead to be hospitalized author Benjamin or die once exposed Goldstein, an enviBy Seth Borenstein
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to heat, and often lack the resources to protect themselves or access health care,” said Dr. Renee Salas, a Boston emergency room physician and Harvard climate health researcher who wasn’t part of the study. Salas and Sacoby Wilson, a professor of environmental health and epidemiology at the University of Maryland, who also wasn’t part of the study, pointed to studies in Baltimore and other cities showing that because of fewer trees, more asphalt and other issues, temperatures can be more than 10 degrees hotter in poorer neighborhoods. “Heat waves are hell for the poor,” Wilson said. Goldstein calculated the emission figures by crunching data on 78% of the housing units in America as of 2015, factoring the home’s
age, size, heating supply, weather, electricity source and more. He then compared income levels. Nine of the 10 states that produce the most heat-trapping gas per person rely heavily on coal or have cold weather. West Virginia by far leads the nation with 10,046 pounds of greenhouse gas per person per year, followed by Oklahoma, Wyoming, North Dakota, Kentucky, Missouri, Iowa, Alabama, South Dakota and Colorado. California by far is the greenest state with 2,715 pounds of greenhouse gas per person. Oregon, New York, Utah, Washington, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Idaho, Connecticut and New Mexico round out the 10 cleanest states. The study’s 25 cleanest zip codes for residential greenhouse gas
emissions are all in California and New York. The cleanest was Mission Bay in San Francisco, a white collar area with relatively new housing stock, where the average person produces only 1,320 pounds a year. The zip codes that produced the most gas are scattered across Colorado, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Louisiana, Wyoming, Maryland, West Virginia, Minnesota, Missouri, Georgia, Arkansas, Indiana and Utah. The zip code that produced the most greenhouse gas per person was in the mountains of western Boulder County, Colorado, where the 23,811 pounds per person is 18 times higher than in the San Francisco zip code. Because some zip codes didn’t have adequate data, Goldstein
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