Philadelphia homeowners are about to see new property values that could affect their 2027 real estate tax bills. The City of Philadelphia said the Office of Property Assessment will begin mailing Notices of Valuation for Tax Year 2027 this week, while the Department of Revenue starts a broader outreach campaign to connect homeowners with tax…
A headstone once spotted in a Connecticut backyard has reopened a local mystery about where Monroe Center’s first burial ground may have been. Kevin Daly, historian for the Monroe Historical Society, recently spoke at Edith Wheeler Memorial Library about the Peppercorn Lease, a 1765 document tied to the town’s early burial ground, according to The…
If you plan on doing any home DIY renovations, you might want to make sure all your pets are safely out of the way first. A Maryland family decided to cut down a tree in their yard, and things definitely didn’t go as planned. The tree fell the wrong way, crushed their fence, and very…
Homeowners in Harvest, Alabama, say construction next door has turned into a daily dust problem around their properties. The complaint was featured in a WHNT News 19 report shared by AOL, which described construction dust affecting homes in the area. The station’s YouTube description says what started as nearby construction has become a daily headache…
Beware this summer while heading out to get-togethers where you’ll be doing a lot of eating food from the grill. This is especially true this week as everyone celebrates the 4th of July, which is why we’re revising this story from earlier in June. A backyard barbecue in Minnesota ended with a teenager in emergency…
More than 40 Tennessee homeowners are suing the developer behind a tiny-home vacation community, claiming promised amenities, HOA records, and common-area finances did not match what buyers were led to expect. The lawsuit was filed June 29 in Grundy County Chancery Court and centers on The Retreat at Water’s Edge, a 202-lot community on Fiery…
Forget the World Cup. This coyote has some serious moves. A backyard in the San Bernardino mountains has become the unlikely home field for a coyote with a thing for soccer. For weeks, the same wild coyote has been slipping into a man’s yard to play with a soccer ball. A Ring camera caught the…
If you know cats, you know they can be nothing but stubborn at times. So one fighting off a bear really shouldn’t come as a surprise, and that’s exactly what happened. A black bear wandered into the wrong backyard in British Columbia and got run off by the last thing it expected, a house cat….
A Virginia family has lost its year-long fight to keep a data center power line out of its backyard. This week, state regulators approved the route for new Dominion Energy transmission lines through their Ashburn neighborhood. That includes being run through the property of a woman who had planned to retire there. The decision cleared…