Business
Housing scene: Learning to decipher buyer’s body language
Toward that end, Britain’s largest online brokerage firm, House Network, has teamed up with a leading body-language analyst to create a 10-step guide to help sellers decipher the unspoken intentions…
Housing costs are big expense in retirement
In 2011, people ages 65 to 74 spent an average of $18,720 on home and home-related expenses; those 75 to 84 spent $14,732, says the analysis of about 5,000 households…
Apple locks itself out of devices
The additional safeguard is part of Apple’s latest mobile software, iOS 8, which the Cupertino, California, company released Wednesday. Apple Inc. revealed the stronger protection in a new section of…
Builders getting more confident
The brighter outlook reflects growing optimism that sales will rise over the next six months, spurring growth in home construction. The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo builder sentiment index…
Sex, money and getting along with your partner
Surprising? Not really. Seventy percent of couples said money causes most of their spats. Yes, finances are a more common source of disagreement and irritation than household chores, snoring or…
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Money invests in small-scale farm enterprises
Business Briefs
Sainio Durango Detail Doctor announces its opening at 29251 U.S. Highway 160. The business is owned by Richard Padilla who has more than five years of detailing experience. The business…
Tween’s bedroom can be balancing act
It’s a great place to give growing adolescents some creative freedom. But will they reject at age 12 the color palette and furniture they begged for when they were 10?…
Steps can help protect your credit score
Here are a few options: Fraud alerts The main step credit-protection programs take is to activate a fraud alert on your credit profile at all three major credit bureaus: Equifax,…
Renovation important to construction industry
A remodeling job altered the back entrance to this home in Vail, Colo.Vail Daily.com/Associated Press David Hyde is the president of Shaeffer Hyde Construction, a company with 35 years in…
Business Briefs
Darrick Robinson has been promoted to superintendent of system operations at La Plata Electric Association. In his new position, Robinson will oversee the dispatch team as well as LPEA’s electronics…
Data looking good if you believe the numbers
Despite recent job-creation numbers below what many expected, which I suspect is a glitch, the U.S. economy’s performance is stellar when compared with other Western developed countries. U.S. inflation-adjusted gross…
Doors divide haves, have-nots
Many state and local officials are looking at new laws that will make it illegal for New York City apartment buildings to ban some tenants receiving government incentives from using…
Prairie dogs: Plague or boon?
Residents may hate them, but businesses dealing with the burrowing rodent are having a banner season
Tiny houses offer big potential in some areas
An exterior and interior look at the Minim House, a 210-square-foot home designed by Foundry Architects and Brian Levy. Downtown nonprofit cityLab intends to build a home with this design…
Right at home: Advice for living in small space
Take Meg Volk, 22, a New York-based producer and photographer who is a seasoned veteran of the tiny-home trenches: She’s on her third, less-than-300-square-foot studio apartment. Find vertical space; think…
