Real Estate News

Looking To Sell Your Home For Cash? Read This First.

Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 06/01/2023 - 5:00am

Cash home buyers like the “We Buy Ugly Houses” company may offer a quick and convenient sale to homeowners. Here’s what experts say you should know about interacting with these companies. (Eli Pousson / Flickr)

You’ve seen the ads in your neighborhood. They’ve flashed across your television and buzzed your phone to life at odd hours. The slogans and phone numbers might change, but the pitch is the same: “We buy houses for cash.”

Thousands of real estate investors across the country use a variety of techniques to find potential sellers and plan their next deal.

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Notre Dame's Fire-Ravaged Roof Rebuilt Using Medieval Techniques

Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 06/01/2023 - 4:00am

SAINT-LAURENT-DE-LA-PLAINE, France (AP) — If time travel was possible, medieval carpenters would surely be amazed to see how woodworking techniques they pioneered in building Notre Dame Cathedral more than 800 years ago are being used again today to rebuild the world-famous monument's fire-ravaged roof.

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Santee Sioux Nation Of Nebraska Awarded $500,000 To Boost Tribal Internet Services

Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 06/01/2023 - 3:00am

LINCOLN — The Santee Sioux Nation of Nebraska will receive $500,000 for high-speed internet development as part of the Biden Administration’s “Internet for All” initiative.

The Santee Sioux was one of nine tribal entities that will share a combined $4.5 million from the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program.

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‘Capitalism With A Heart’: How Ho-Chunk Inc. Strengthens Tribal Community In Winnebago

Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 05/25/2023 - 5:00am

WINNEBAGO — In February 2012, Sunshine Thomas Bear promised her nine children that one day, she would be able to buy them a house.

She had just been evicted from her previous home and had to move around from place to place to raise her family.

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72% Of Renters Say They'll Never Be Able To Afford a Home. Are They Right?

Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 05/25/2023 - 4:00am

Finding an affordable home in 2023 is like finding a needle in a haystack made of other needles. At least, that's the sentiment expressed by most U.S. renters.

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VineBrook Homes Owns Thousands Of Midwest Properties. Tenants Are Crying Foul.

Published by jason@omahadail... on Thu, 05/18/2023 - 5:00am

Homes line Rex Avenue on Friday, April 21, 2023, in Breckenridge Hills, Mo. The company’s self-declared strategy is to buy single-family rental properties around the region. A Midwest Newsroom investigation uncovered neglect, aggressive evictions and rising rents where VineBrook moves in – mostly non-white neighborhoods.
(Brian Muñoz / St. Louis Public Radio)

Trash bags full of ruined clothes, furniture stained with mold and ruined keepsakes filled the front yard of Carolyn Burton and Jerry Hofee’s former rental home in north St. Louis County. It all had to go in the trash.

Burton and Hofee noticed the sewage leak not long after they moved into the rental home on Roslan Place.

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America’s Aging Flood Control Infrastructure Is Failing – Federal Funding Is Coming, But Too Often New Construction Relies On Old Data

Published by jason@omahadail... on Thu, 05/18/2023 - 3:00am

Average cost of federal flood insurance by county

Heavy downpours and a thick snowpack in the Western mountains and Upper Midwest have put communities in several states at risk of flooding this spring – or already under water.

Flooding is the costliest type of natural disaster in the U.S., responsible for about 90% of the damage from natural disasters each year. It happens almost every day somewhere in the country.

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Dumbbell Ranch Operation In Nebraska Sandhills Poised For Next Chapter

Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 04/27/2023 - 5:00am

OMAHA — After less than a month on the market, the Nebraska Sandhills ranch with the quirky name and storied past is poised to be purchased by a Colorado family.

The owners of the Dumbbell Ranch in the Hyannis area have a preliminary agreement with the potential buyer. And a member of the family that has had an ownership interest in the 15,500-acre property for more than a century said she is happy.

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The Federal Government Accidentally Burned Down Their Houses, Then Made It Hard to Come Home

Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 04/27/2023 - 4:00am

The wildfire had already burned 160 square miles of northern New Mexico Forest last spring when it suddenly surged ahead, reducing to ash the cozy cabin David Martinez had built for himself more than two decades earlier.

Martinez, now 64, had fled days before, one of 15,000 people ordered to leave as the fire spread.

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Ready To Raise The Roof? Start With A Home Renovation Plan To Avoid Surprises

Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 04/27/2023 - 3:00am

Renovating has been all the rage since the pandemic, resulting in home improvement projects taking nearly four times as long to complete compared to just a few years ago due to rising material costs and labor shortages.