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9 April 2023 | 17 replies
All the abandoned brick buildings can be restored to beautiful loft spaces.
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19 January 2017 | 3 replies
A property is improved whenever it undergoes a betterment, adaptation or restoration.
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4 December 2017 | 37 replies
Tried to restore power quickly but ComEd wouldn't open a new account over the weekend.
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21 May 2015 | 20 replies
I managed to fall in love with the house, and against my brain, I went with my heart (mistake) and restored the entire house- top to bottom.
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23 March 2016 | 11 replies
As a person interested in restoring the house they will speak to you freely.
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3 February 2012 | 32 replies
There are several estimating software programs available that are used by insurance adjusters (like me) but also have contractor's versions widely used by restoration companies like Servpro & Service Master.
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10 October 2017 | 91 replies
Don't remember where I got it, but Rick Dale from American Restoration said it is worth about $850.
2 July 2018 | 48 replies
If you were to dumb it down to one single rudimentary difference between "cheap" solutions vs Lead Propeller and Investor Carrot type sites its this: buy it yourself, pick it yourself, build it yourself, maintenance itself, back it up yourself, restore it yourself, patch it yourself, replace plugins that are no longer compatible yourself, become an expert in 3-5 different types of technology that all are "supposed" to work together yourself AND let someone else more effectively do it for you for very little "extra" money than what it would actually cost you.I have built countless websites on Wordpress, countless plugins, recovered from viruses, done some Joomla/WIX, HTML, etc sites and I can tell you: IT SUCKS.
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3 January 2013 | 74 replies
People come up to me and thank me for rehabbing that abandoned home and restoring their neighborhood.Yet I must tell you I had a similar problem on a house I purchased at auction with the people still in it.
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12 February 2019 | 96 replies
Of course, once the grout gets discolored, you have to restore the grout or seal the discolor in, too.