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Gutter cleaning in Plymouth using a gutter vac from OmniPole and poles from GrippaTank http://www.sajwindowcleaners.co.uk.

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Gutter cleaning and Gutter Maintenance: What You Need to Know Many home owners neglect gutter cleaning and gutter maintenance. It #39;s easy to forget about your...

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Low pressure house washing, gutter whitening, and gutter cleanouts 859-379-5450.

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Gutters Toledo Ohio - Gutter Sale http://guttermangutters.com Gutter Man Gutters is having a HUGE sale on seamless gutters and downspouts. $3.99 per square foot. Sale ends July 31, 2014. Contact...

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Sniffing out scammers: How to recognize flawed home improvement offers

By Mountain America Credit Union

July 28th, 2014 @ 10:33am

Home improvement measures can be great methods for enhancing the overall value of your home, or to take advantage of a home equity line of credit opportunity. As long as they're done with careful consideration and research, they're generally successful in establishing equity and garnering a greater resale price on a property.

A significant element of that research is in choosing the right contractors and service providers. There are a lot of scam artists out there, and not being duped has as much to do with knowing what to look for as it does knowing who to choose. Some signs of an impending scam are obvious, while others are very subtle. Either way, they should draw red flags.

The less subtle scammers will generally present themselves in an overly aggressive, often pushy manner. If your first and only manner of contact is via cold call or they're dropping by the house because they were "in the area," that's probably not the beginning of a beautiful professional relationship.

There are certain traits and proof legitimate businesses and contractors will present, often without request. Illegitimate service providers can't or won't provide things like in-state licensing, proof of insurance, accessible contact information, written contracts or customer references.

If you're skeptical of a prospective service provider, try looking up their contact information or calling the phone number they list. If those lead you to a rented mail drop box or a voice mail service, that's not a promising sign. Similarly, if a contractor can't produce a contract upon request, or isn't willing to draw one up and return with it, that should immediately call into question the validity of their enterprise.

Remember, most successful businesses have more formal ways of marketing themselves. This is especially true of contractors that provide services fostering interaction with their customers and word-of-mouth recommendations. Chances are, the good ones will present themselves without showing up at your door or calling you. Anyone who can't produce customer references is probably hiding something.

Some of the more obvious tendencies these scammers exhibit should have you politely shooing them off your property within minutes. If a sales pitch includes the words "leftover materials," "in the neighborhood" or "coming from another job," turn it down immediately. Legitimate businesses have plenty of jobs, and they don't go seeking them out randomly. Furthermore, they have ways to utilize their excess materials.

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Winnipeg Free Press - PRINT EDITION

By: Kevin Rollason

Posted: 07/30/2014 1:00 AM | Comments: | Last Modified: 7:05 AM | Updates

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Landscape expert Bob Somers crouches in tall grass around the human rights museum. The intent is to get 'as close to a tall grass prairie here as one can,' he says. s Photo Store

Inside the Canadian Museum for Human Rights there are still construction workers working away while outside it looks like weeds are taking over.

But spokespeople for the CMHR say they're not worried because everything is on schedule for the inside and what's outside is supposed to look that way -- for now.

With just under two months left until opening day on Sept. 20, Corey Timpson, the museum's director of exhibits and new media, said workers are no longer constructing the building, but are busy installing the wiring and other infrastructure to be able to run video machines and screens that will enhance the experience of visitors.

Timpson said most of the exhibits have already been constructed elsewhere and just have to be set up inside the museum.

"There's a 60,000-square-foot facility in Toronto and until three months ago it was still full of our stuff and we have 47,000 square feet of exhibit space," he said.

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Published: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 at 3:15 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, July 28, 2014 at 3:26 p.m.

Don Bramblett of Spartanburg was riding on South Pine Street when he spotted what looked like a patch of grass several feet across, and his first thought was, Oh, Lord, the state Department of Transportation has completely run out of funds for road repair and is now repairing potholes and resurfacing with sections of grass sod! Upon closer inspection, Mr. Bramblett realized it was just a loose square of sod that had probably fallen from a landscaper truck. But for a moment, he says, I thought they were road patches. I wouldn't be surprised if sodding roadways is the next step in road repair for the cash-strapped DOT. Are we going back to dirt roads due to stingy taxpayers? I would add that our governor may need a hearing aid. She keeps talking about a roads funding plan in which she would shift millions of dollars from other state agencies and give it to the DOT for road repair. She talks about $100 million in shifted dough. She obviously is hard of hearing because the DOT has been yelling for three years that it needs about $1.5 billion per year to fix the roads. That is 15 times what she is proposing, and we are already $4.5 billion behind in what the DOT needs.

'DEDICATED': Ted Hayes of Woodruff says he can appreciate Norman Parr's gratitude for the repairmen who came to his rescue and went the extra miles when his air conditioner failed. I recently had a very similar situation. My air conditioner went out late on a Saturday afternoon, and my wife had planned a lunch event for the next day. It was too late to reschedule. I called Jody Lamb at Lamb's Heating and Air in Woodruff, and Jody said he had several service calls ahead of me but would be here if he could. He arrived around midnight, and he stayed almost an hour. He had our unit running, and we had cool air that night, and my wife had her Sunday event as planned, says a grateful Mr. Hayes. A couple of years before that, when we had cooling problems, Jody went to Charlotte to get a part and came again in the dark of night to fix it. These service representatives many times exceed our expectations of them, but they are dedicated to serving their customers, and, like Mr. Parr, I appreciate them.

QUIPS WILLIAM McDONALD of Spartanburg: The major media are so in the tank for President Barack Obama that if he were to eat a puppy on live TV it would be reported as Obama making the world safer for cats.

OPEN, PLEASE: What time does the library open? the man on the phone asked. Nine a.m., came the reply. And what's the idea of calling me at home in the middle of the night to ask a question like that? Not until 9 a.m.? the man asked in a disappointed voice. No, not till 9 a.m.! the librarian said. Why do you want to get in before 9 a.m.? Who said I wanted to get in? the man sighed sadly. I want to get out.

ODDS AND ENDS: Artisans of all types, from jewelry makers to woodworkers to painters and potters, are invited to the Boiling Springs Art Market that will take place Saturday, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., in the Boiling Springs Community Park's Venue Center at 182 Rainbow Lake Road, behind Lowe's. The market will continue on the first Saturday of every month. Display space is available by calling 809-7726.

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Pine Tree Club in Wildwood, MO

DEERFIELD, ILOak Residential Partners, LLC, has just bought three multi-family properties with a total of 670 units in two separate transactions. In the first, Deerfield, IL-based Oak acquired the 268-unit Evergreens at Mount Moriah Apartments located in Durham, NC in a joint venture with an institutional private equity group. In the second, it acquired a two-property Missouri portfolio consisting of the 252-unit Westbrooke Village Apartments in Manchester, and the 150-unit Pine Tree Club Apartments in Wildwood.

These properties, both in suburban St. Louis, were acquired in a joint venture with an internationally-based high net worth family. Oaks share of equity for the three acquisitions was contributed from its initial co-investment fund, ORP Apartment Portfolio, LLC. The fund consists of high net worth investors and family offices.

We are excited to complete these acquisitions and add these three properties to our growing portfolio of multi-family assets, says Rick Wise, managing principal of Oak Residential Partners. Our equity partners share similar investment strategies and provide us with access to capital which enables us to take advantage of great investment opportunities such as these.

The Evergreens at Mount Moriah was built in 2001 and consists of 268 apartment units in 12 garden-style buildings and 608 open parking spaces on 32.22 acres. It features unit layouts with 9-foot ceilings on lower floors and 15-foot vaulted ceilings on the top floor, a 3,500-square-foot clubhouse, fitness center, business center, outdoor pool, tennis court, beach volleyball, gazebos, and an outdoor spring fed pond. Oak has hired Greensboro, NC-based Hawthorne Residential Partners to manage the property.

Pine Tree Club Apartments, built in 1987, consists of 10 three-story buildings on concrete slab-on-grade foundations. The property has one-, two-, and three-bedroom units ranging from 805-square-feet to 1,340-square-feet. Amenities include clubhouse, fitness center, laundry center, basketball and tennis courts, hot tub, sauna, tanning bed, and carports.

Westbrooke Village Apartments was constructed in two phases. Phase one was built in 1984 and consists of 144 units in 8 three-story buildings. Phase two was built in 1986 and consists of 108 units in 6 three-story buildings. It contains one-, two-, and three-bedroom units ranging from 704-square-feet to 1,143-square-feet. Amenities include clubhouse, fitness center, laundry centers, tennis court, racquetball court, hot tub, sauna, tanning bed, garages, and carports. Oak has hired Farmington Hills, MI-based Village Green Management Co. to manage both Missouri properties.

Company officials say that although all three were well-maintained, each was also underperforming due to the previous owners lack of capital. Oak plans to launch a rebranding and repositioning program that will enhance property management, upgrade the amenities and exteriors, and make interior renovations to select units. Between the properties, Oak plans to spend about $3,500,000 on the upgrades.

All three properties provide an excellent opportunity to invest needed capital, reposition, and add significantly to the bottom line returns, says Adam Levine, managing principal of Oak Residential Partners. These opportunities fit perfectly into Oaks business strategy to improve and reposition multi-family properties achieving above average return for our investors.

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