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Do Your Part: 5 Ways to Lower your Lighting Costs

(MCT)—Looking for ways to lower your utility bills? Lowering the amount of energy you use to light your home is one place to start. About 20 percent of your monthly energy usage goes toward illuminating your home, and slashing that bill takes a little more effort than simply turning off the lights.


Fall is the Time to Plant Spring Flowering Bulbs

(MCT)—When fall is in the air, it’s time to put spring in the ground. Autumn is the time for planting the bulbs that will burst into bloom come spring.


Fall is Time to Aerate, Fertilize, Seed

(MCT)—If your lawn is ragged and tired looking from the hot, dry summer, fall is the time to get it back into good shape. Now through Thanksgiving is the season to aerate, seed and fertilize your cool-season fescue grass so roots grow deep and healthy while temperatures are moderate.


Family Travel Five: Autumn’s Glory Beckons

(MCT)—As nature parades her fall colors, share the glory with your family. Here are five places to consider:


Top Counters: Granite Sharing the Spotlight with Glass, Engineered Stone and More

(MCT)—To anyone reading the real estate ads in recent years, it could seem that granite was the only material worth using for a kitchen counter, as important as updated electrical or a reliable roof.


Sign of the Times: Accidental Landlords

(MCT)—About six years ago, when Jennifer Bryden was single and housing prices were rising like a helium balloon, she bought a condo in Minneapolis. She negotiated hard and thought she got a bargain. “I was so proud of myself,” she said.


Hot Property: Actor Mark Wahlberg Puts Beverly Hills Home on the Market

(MCT)—Mark Wahlberg has listed his Beverly Hills home for sale at $13,995,000. The contemporary Mediterranean, built in 1985, has been updated throughout. In addition to the main house with


Plant a Tree: Fall is the time to put down roots

Consider planting a tree this fall. It’s an act of hope—a long-term investment in beauty and the environment. In most regions, fall is the perfect time to plant because moisture levels and soil temperatures provide optimal conditions for roots to grow deeply and establish a healthy foundation before the first winter


Your Place: Is a Pre-Listing Appraisal a Good Idea for Sellers?

(MCT)—I thought that today I’d share some reader feedback on recent articles and columns, rather than offer the latest “experts’ insight” on when the residential real estate market will recover.


Top 5 Tips for Small Businesses to ‘Brand Your Way to Success’

When most business owners think about creating a brand for their businesses, they immediately think about logos or brainstorm amusing taglines. Yet effective branding goes so much deeper than this.


Home Security Systems Can Protect against Break-Ins

(MCT)—More and more American homes are being burglarized, the Associated Press reports—all in pursuit of gold, whose price peaked last month at $1,891 an ounce.


Plan Ahead for Disasters to Protect Finances

(MCT)—Hurricanes, earthquakes, flooding. And that was just August on the East Coast. The recent storm-related havoc that pummeled Easterners from New York to North Carolina reminds us that weather-related disasters can strike anywhere, anytime.


Cohabitation Trend Raises Financial Challenges

(MCT)—First there’s love, then there’s marriage, then there’s … Wait! Not so fast. We’re in the 21st century now. Relationships today have taken a whole new twist that many may not realize could also twist personal finances.


Pack Healthy Dips in School Lunches

(MCT)—Is there anything more exciting for an elementary-school child than the purchase of a new lunch box for a new school year? And is there anything more burdensome for parents than filling that lunch box every day with a wholesome-but-pleasing lunch?


Rising Fuel Exports Keep U.S. Gas Prices from Falling

(MCT)—Oil prices have fallen, but U.S. motorists aren’t benefiting because the nation’s refineries continue to boost exports and reduce supplies available domestically.


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