A 79-year-old DeKalb County, Georgia, homeowner has been unable to live in her Stone Mountain house for more than a year, and her family says that fire restoration work is the reason. Josephine Harris’ relatives told WSB-TV that an independently owned franchise damaged the property while restoring it after a fire, letting extensive mold take hold. …
A Las Vegas homeowner says a group of people has taken over the house she owns and has been living there for more than a week. Jenny Rouzan told KSNV that the occupants put their own names on her mailbox, switched the utilities into their names without her knowledge, and removed appliances from the home. …
The state of Minnesota is suing two Mankato homeowners over rat poison it says they placed near a public sidewalk, where at least one neighborhood dog ate it. Attorney General Keith Ellison’s office filed the civil lawsuit on July 1 on behalf of the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, and a judge ordered the poison removed …
Some people just can’t take whimsy. But in the case of a South Milwaukee, Wisconsin homeowner’s two giant yard skeletons, it looks like fun will end up winning the day, according to CBS News reported. Sean Oster said the city’s inspection office called to tell him the display could stay, ending a monthslong standoff over …
A Monson, Massachusetts, homeowner is getting his chimney, siding, and roof repaired at no cost after an alleged contractor scam destroyed the chimney, according to the trade publication Roofing Contractor. The homeowner had recently paid Adam Quenneville Roofing & Siding to install new siding. Soon after that job, a man claiming to be a mason …
A ninth vehicle in two years has crashed into a Catonsville, Maryland homeowner’s front yard, just days after she went public with her concern about the repeated wrecks. Krista Cantafio said a vehicle left Kenwood Avenue and struck her property on July 6. This one came closer to her front door than any crash before …
A Chesapeake, Virginia, homeowner was fined $50 after he failed to appear in court on July 8 to answer for a debris-filled yard that neighbors have called a junkyard, according to WAVY. Blair Hess now faces a civil charge of debris accumulation on his property on Tyre Neck Road. Now it’s up to the city …
A rare white red squirrel spent about a week in a St. Albert, Alberta, backyard this spring, drawing the attention of the resident who was watching it. Wendy Vanderwel, who lives in the city’s Gardens neighborhood, told the St. Albert Gazette she observed the animal in a backyard tree from May 8 to May 15. Red …
Sometimes, dogs are much more powerful protectors than we give them credit for. A family’s husky chased a black bear out of a Torrington, Connecticut, backyard after the bear charged toward a young boy, in an encounter recorded on the homeowner’s surveillance camera. No one was hurt. The homeowner, Jeff Tazzara, posted the video on …
One Redditor built a backyard pond to attract frogs to their garden. As it turns out, it’s brought completely different visitors: the neighbor’s cat and other felines. User r/Entire-Writing-3701 shared photos to the r/gardening community about a week ago and collected more than 1,000 upvotes and 150 comments on their example, showing the critters that …