A Wellfleet, Massachusetts, homeowner is suing JPMorgan Chase to void the $3.85 million mortgage he took out on a Cape Cod house that was torn down last year. It was taken down just before erosion could pull it into the sea. John G. Bonomi Jr., a retired New York attorney, argues that he wasn’t actually …

A Tampa contractor has been sentenced to five years in prison for stealing tens of thousands of dollars from an 87-year-old Bay County, Florida, man who was trying to rebuild after Hurricane Michael. Mark Eugene Stargardt, 66, owner of Stargardt and Associates, LLC, was sentenced Thursday, according to WJHG. A Bay County jury convicted him …

If you’re a homeowner in Maine who will benefit from the Fortify Maine Homes Program, you’re going to have to wait a little longer to take advantage of it. The initiative, which helps homeowners pay for stronger, storm-resistant roofs, won’t start taking applications until next year, according to WGME. The $15 million project had been …

When you see an animal in need, you should always try to help, as long as it’s safe to do so. Two paddleboarders pulled a struggling raccoon out of Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas, during some seriously stormy weather. The pair, Tucker and Owen, were out fishing and filming when they spotted what they …

What happens when an animal makes an enormous mess of your store? You clean it up and document it for posterity on social media, of course. A deer smashed through the front glass window of an antique store in Dothan, Alabama, on Tuesday, tore through a booth, and left through a door an employee opened …

Deer are certainly cute and all, but too many of them can make for a real problem. Residents in Roanoke, Virginia, say a growing deer population is destroying gardens, damaging merchandise, and raising the risk of tick-borne disease. Now they want the city to act. Casey Jones, owner of the Townside Gardens nursery in Roanoke, …

What if your family left you a house, but you couldn’t actually live in it due to some frustrating red tape? One Jacksonville, Florida, woman’s fight to keep a home she inherited in an age-restricted community raises a very important question: how can someone legally inherit a house but not be allowed to live in …

Two railway carriages that sat rotting in a field have officially been rebuilt over eight years into an off-grid home in New Zealand. Mandy and Daman Groshinski restored the carriages part-time during a project featured by Living Big in a Tiny House. The couple, who had already restored boats and yachts, took the carriages on …

Live somewhere that doesn’t get much sunlight? That could soon be changing. The FCC has approved a startup’s plan to launch a satellite that reflects sunlight down to Earth after dark. The company, Reflect Orbital, wants to use a steerable mirror that it would put in orbit to cast a beam of sunlight onto the …

What do you do when your neighbors are unwittingly destroying your property? Take it to the internet for some much-needed advice, naturally. One Reddit user posted a photo of a bedsheet burned by a cigarette butt; they say their upstairs neighbor flicked it off a balcony while the sheet was drying below. The post went …