While you are doing research on neighborhoods to house shop in, don’t forget to also research the local schools. People often consider the appearance and condition of the houses in the neighborhood and how that might affect the value of a home they are considering buying and this is a very good idea. Even if you don’t have school age children, or aren’t planning to have children, the quality of the local schools can have an impact on the value of your home.
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Why does your community need an Arson Watch Program? Well, about 10 years back one of our franchisees in our company had all his belongings lost in a fire in the Conejo Valley in California adjacent to the Santa Monica Mountains. He was not alone as whole neighborhoods and 10’s of thousands of acres were destroyed in under two days.
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Fort Bo-Ga-Ko-Te-Za. That is the name the neighborhood kids created to christen the new “fort” – a collection of used plywood, tin, and old scrap material lifted from our parents’ garages and assembled into a shaky but relatively sturdy tent-like structure in the woods behind our houses. The name, of course, was an amalgamation of the first syllable of each fort builder’s last name. We thought we were so clever — young New York Times puzzle masters before we had ever heard of an anagram.
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