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…
Houses are expensive, and they aren’t getting any cheaper. A new Virginia law will make it easier for homeowners to build an accessory dwelling unit, such as a backyard tiny house, garage apartment, or in-law suite, on their property. Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed the measure this week, and it takes effect on July 1, 2027,…
When it comes to inheritances, things can get a bit murky between family members. One Reddit user has asked for an outside perspective after their mother requested a third of the inheritance coming to them from their grandparents’ trust. The poster, asking the r/Inheritance subreddit, explained that the sum in question could reach roughly half…
What happens when your HOA begins to price you out? That’s the question many homeowners in the Magnolia Cove subdivision in Sherrills Ford, North Carolina, are facing. They’re staring down a monthly HOA increase from $350 to $1,250, along with a $10,000 special assessment on their property. Several residents, some of them retired, told WSOC…