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Business
How to Hire the Right Employees on a Small Budget
Building a dedicated, highly productive team is the ultimate catalyst for scaling any growing enterprise. However, for small business owners…
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Business
A Paid Off Farmhouse Can Cost More Each Year Than A New Mortgage
A paid off house is supposed to be the cheap part of retirement. Out on four acres in Louisa County,…
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Home Improvement
Chemical Drain Openers Rarely Fix A Shared Branch Line
A slow drain is hardly ever the drain’s fault. Homeowners get that backward, and the plumbing aisle is happy to…
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Home Improvement
A Full House Outgrew Its Water Heater Before It Broke
Most water heaters get replaced the week they quit, which sounds sensible and is usually a mistake. The family in…
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Home Improvement
Three Bottles Of Drain Opener Later The Sink Still Holds Water
Two pounds of butter a week go down one kitchen sink in East Nashville, and the branch line under that…
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Business
Relighting a Furnace Three Times Is the Expensive Choice
Pressing the reset switch on a furnace that just quit feels like the free fix. It is usually the most…
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Home Improvement
A Wasp Nest Found On Party Morning Needs A Same Day Crew
Who exactly do you call at seven on a Saturday morning when a paper wasp nest the size of a…
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Home Improvement
One Basement Backup Showed Why Sewage Cleanup Is Not Mopping
The floor drain in the daylight basement gurgled for two days before anything came out of it. Then, on the…
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Home Improvement
Twelve Years Without Anyone Looking At The Roof
The house is twelve years old, sitting in a Lakewood Ranch subdivision where roughly four hundred roofs went up inside…
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Home Improvement
Old Plaster Walls Decide Which Cooling System You Can Install
Three hundred forty dollars was the August electric bill on a 1926 foursquare farmhouse outside town, eleven hundred square feet…
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