An Alamance County, North Carolina, woman says she lost roughly $120,000 to a contractor who abandoned the renovation of her historic farmhouse and later pleaded guilty to six felonies. Sylvia Blankenship hired Danny Lynch in 2021 to restore a farmhouse she had recently purchased, a home built in 1910 with a log cabin as part …
If you’re left a large sum of money through an inheritance, it’s your business as to what you do with it. But what if one of your siblings was left out? One woman in this situation turned to Reddit’s r/AmIWrong community for some outside perspective. She kept the inheritance her parents left her, but her …
A resident of Hermosa Beach, California, was forced into a lengthy and expensive court battle when Evhan Lemarck, a guest from France, would not vacate her Airbnb rental property after his reservation ended. Wendy Weissman said the guest “squatted” in her townhome, in a case that drew attention to a loophole in California tenancy law, …
The California Animal Rescue Rangers Evacuation Team (CARRET) is a group of volunteers from Escondido, California. They drive into wildfires with an evacuation plan for the hard-to-move animals, such as horses, livestock, and exotics, that get left behind by fleeing residents. CBS 8’s Jeff Zevely highlighted their efforts in a Zevely Zone segment for the …
A growing number of California homeowners who hire someone to delay their foreclosure are being left with unknown entities, people who have filed for bankruptcy, or other unrelated parties listed on their home’s title, according to a recent consumer alert from Lawyers Realty Group. This comes after a recent report from ATTOM, which states that …
Keeping your pool well-maintained and free of excess chemicals, algae, or other unwanted contents is your responsibility. But what happens if you end up ignoring it and leaving it to languish? A stagnant, algae-green pool behind a Henderson, Nevada, home has finally been emptied after the city gave the owner a hard deadline, warning they …
A new homeowner who thought the house came with air conditioning turned to Reddit for help after the system blew air through the vents without ever cooling the place down. The poster, who described themselves as a total HVAC novice, asked whether they had been scammed with an incomplete system or were missing something, according …
A Hackensack, New Jersey homeowner is suing the city, the school board, and several other government agencies after a contractor removing trees on neighboring school property cut down a 150-year-old oak in her backyard without permission. Lenora Pascuzzo says the roughly 80-foot tree stood about 40 feet inside her property line, NJ.com reported. The oak …
What do you do when kids keep using your driveway as a racetrack for their bikes? You turn your driveway into a “real” one with chalk. A Salt Lake City man did just that for a young neighbor after a security camera kept alerting him that the boy was riding a bike on his property. …
When animals become trapped somewhere, they don’t often stay calm. That’s to be expected, except they can hurt themselves when thrashing around in their confusion. Firefighters in Eloy, Arizona, freed a young horse that had wedged itself under a pipe fence last week. Luckily, the animal walked away with only minor injuries. The Eloy Fire …