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Economist Russell Price decided to get a head start on work hed been putting off for more than 10 years at his own house as he began to see an improvement in home-renovation data.

I thought things would be picking up, so I started the process of remodeling what I thought was early, said Price, senior economist at Ameriprise Financial Inc. (AMP) in Detroit.

In a telling sign hes not the only homeowner considering such projects, he said many of the contractors he contacted in April already were too busy to squeeze in additional work this year. Thats because more Americans are renovating their homes, and many are choosing to hire outside help instead of doing the projects themselves.

This is shaping up to be a strong year for home-improvement spending, according to Mike Englund, chief economist at Action Economics LLC in Boulder, Colorado. Seasonally-adjusted annualized expenditures totaled about $136 billion in June and have bounced back from a recent trough of almost $105 billion in November 2012, Englund said, citing his own calculations using Census Bureau data.

Forty-three percent of U.S. homeowners surveyed last month by the website RemodelOrMove.com said they will renovate their residences this year, up from 41 percent in February and a five-year average of 33 percent. Among respondents, 74 percent plan to hire a general contractor for some or all of the work, compared with 73 percent in the previous survey.

The results show that activity is broadening, but its still more heavily skewed to people who were less impacted by the recession, said Dan Fritschen, the founder of the site, who has been tracking industry data since 2005. Thats in part because consumers who hire contractors tend to be wealthier than their do-it-yourself peers, so as their home values improved, they were able to pull the trigger more quickly on remodeling projects.

The median price of an existing house rose 13.5 percent to $214,200 in June from a year earlier, the biggest year-over-year increase since 2005 and seventh consecutive month that property values advanced more than 10 percent, according to data from the National Association of Realtors.

A continued improvement in home prices will add valuable equity to homeowners for future remodeling projects, James Metcalf, chief executive officer of USG Corp. (USG), said on a July 25 conference call. The Chicago-based manufacturer and distributor of building materials is forecasting low single-digit growth in its repair and remodeling business for the rest of the year as the residential recovery is intact, he said.

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An Oxnard plumber was is accused of elder abuse and working without a valid contractors license in Santa Barbara County, officials said.

Albert Solano, 46, was arrested by Oxnard police on July 26 after an investigation by the Contractors State License Board, the Santa Barbara County Sheriffs Office and he Santa Barbara County District Attorneys Office.

Solano, who worked as a plumber, was apparently using the names of businesses that did not have a valid contractors license and used the name of a business that was not his, officials said. The Santa Barbara County Sheriffs Office is investigating multiple cases involving Solano, three of them involving senior residents. Sheriffs detectives are concerned there may be more victims.

During the monthslong investigation into Solano, investigators discovered a case involving a 68-year-old Santa Barbara resident and received another case involving a couple in their 70s. In both instances, Solano allegedly did not give an estimate, overcharged customers for his work and threatened to place a lien on the property if customers did not pay, officials said.

Solano is affiliated with several companies including Dr. Drain Sewer Repair and other similar names, Cleaning, American One Plumbing, Rooter Dr. Inc. and AR Construction.

Anyone with information about Solano and the companies he represented can call the Santa Barbara County Sheriffs Criminal Investigations Bureau at 681-4150.

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A pest control company says Seattle is experiencing a "ratpocalypse" over construction of the Highway 99 tunnel.

Sprague Pest Solutions is running rolling bicycle ads saying downtown building managers should seal cracks to prevent rats displaced by construction from moving in.

The company reports a 60 to 80 percent jump in calls since preliminary tunnel work began

"As we shake the ground they live in, they have to go relocate to a better home and that next better home is really the buildings of Seattle," said Sprague District Manager Mark Schmidt.

Schmidt says even before drilling began, preliminary work on the Highway 99 tunnel sent rats scurrying high into buildings.

"That was just driving stakes in the ground," Schmidt said.

He thinks the actual tunneling will cause more disruption.

A spokeswoman for the tunnel project wrote in an email to KIRO 7 that contractors set dozens of traps and have not seen significant displacement of rodents.

Project managers think excavation work would have already sent most rats in the work zone out of hiding.

They also say much of the tunneling is done below sea level, where rats don't want to live.

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