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New floodplain maps combined with rising flood insurance premiums will hammer residents of Somerset County, Maryland, according to a press report.
Hawaiians can act as their own general contractor without any license under current law. But that may change this year.
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The NFIP paid a Staten Island homeowner $10,000 for flood damage to her first floor. Now they say the space was a basement — and they want their money back.
Sand dunes saved some houses from Sandy's storm surge. But some beachfront homeowners still won't sign off on raising the dunes.
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Three years in the Federal pen: that’s the sentence for cooking the books in insurance restoration work.
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North Carolina’s House has voted for a measure that would lengthen the code revision cycle and limit local inspections.
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”PVC farms” at the stalled developments around Savannah, Georgia, may finally start bearing fruit this spring.
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The New Energy Efficient Home Tax Credit was extended to the end of 2013.
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This letter to the editor takes exception to Dennis Dixon's column "Getting Paid for Preconstruction Advice"
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A contractor describes his "Estimating & Design Proposal"
Storing documents in digital form saves time, money, and space
“I cried all the way home,” said Staten Island homeowner Emilya Malkin after encountering New York City Parks Police on the beach near her house. Malkin says police threatened her family with arrest as she strolled with her husband and children.
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Ever fight a traffic ticket? Delaware mason contractor Donald Goldsborough is taking his ticket to the state Supreme Court.
If you want to know how big a deal coastal construction and zoning regulations can be, you don’t have to look further than the tree house at Angelinos Sea Lodge, a bed-and-breakfast getaway at Holmes Beach on Anna Maria Island, Fla.
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BP and its partners in the oil platform are facing a civil trial in a New Orleans federal courtroom, as Gulf Coast states and the U.S. government seek to recover the costs of the cleanup, compensation for economic and environmental damage, and likely additional penalties for negligence.
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An Ohio builder faces ten years in jail if convicted on charges he hired men to beat a neighbor who sued him over rights to a pleasant view.
It’s early yet, but signs of a tight labor market are already starting to show.
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Baton Rouge police have leveled felony theft charges against a Louisiana builder after more than 30 unpaid trade contractors filed liens against four homeowners.
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Federal Judge Eldon E. Fallon has okayed a massive settlement that will cover thousands of houses whose value was degraded by sulfurous emissions seeping out of contaminated Chinese-made drywall.
New legislation to curb "storm chasers" could make life more difficult for legitimate roofing contractors