A Dolton, Illinois, homeowner is disputing a water bill from the Village of Dolton (a local neighborhood) for $4,296.47 after years of paying quarterly charges that she said never came close to that figure. Her usual bills, by her records, ran in the low hundreds of dollars. She said she doesn’t have the money to …
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A North London woman who spent two decades as the downstairs neighbor of the couple who owned her building was convicted last month of destroying their wisteria and hitting one of them with a crutch. The judge issued a five-year restraining order against her in a move to protect the couple. The woman ended up …
A Toledo mother walked over to the garage at the home she had been renting before work one morning last week and found two people already there. The pair, she said, were polite enough despite being strangers. They told her they’d just needed somewhere to charge their phones and somewhere to stay. How did they …
A dead pine tree over 50 feet tall leaning over a Mississippi home is going to be removed by the City of Ridgeland after the tree’s owner refused to act on it for five months. The dead pine is cracked at its base on one neighbor’s property. It rests on the branches of an oak …
A homeowner in Herriman, Utah found his house ablaze in an early morning fire on Friday. Police helped him out of his home as well as his cat, and both walked away relatively unscathed. No one could say the same about the outside of the house, however. According to ABC4 Utah, the fire was reported …
A Mount Airy, North Carolina homeowner said he had his front doors propped open Sunday evening to air out smoke from a burnt pizza when the man in the middle of a multi-state manhunt walked up onto his property. He simply asked for a bottle of water, but the homeowner knew the face. He stopped …
A domestic dispute in Butler County, Pennsylvania, took a shocking turn when a man allegedly made good on a threat most people would never expect to hear. Eric Pierwsza, 48, reportedly climbed into a Kubota excavator and tore into the rear of the family home on Martin Road in Buffalo Township. His wife and two …
When the power goes out unexpectedly, homeowners often face the same pressing question: “Is my food still safe to eat?” With extreme weather events becoming more frequent across the U.S., this is an increasingly common concern. Understanding how long your refrigerated food remains safe can help prevent unnecessary waste and foodborne illness. “Most people aren’t …
A Los Angeles homeowner cleaning out her garage on Wednesday morning opened an old freezer and found 20 sticks of live dynamite inside it. She told police she had no idea how the explosives had ended up there. The Los Angeles Police Department Bomb Squad was called to the home, and the neighborhood around it …
Baseboards are one of those household features that seem to attract dust like a magnet. They’re easy to overlook, but once you notice the buildup, it’s hard to ignore. Feeling motivated to actually clean them is another problem (who actually wants to wash the walls?). If you’ve ever struggled with keeping them clean, Nicole The …