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Virtual tours start to click 

You don't have to show up at Chuck and Pat Yahnke's Brookfield, Wis., townhouse for a house tour. All you have to do is click on the virtual...

Your money Straighten out your finances - and expectations - before 

By Joanne Cleaver

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

The 2008 residential real estate market has yet to get into full swing, but...

Lower heating bills cost a cool $53,000 

TOWN OF LISBON, Wis. - It's not a house many would save.

Built in 1969, its wooden facade was designed with two half-arch windows...

Empty houses open for ideas Empty houses open for ideas 

By Joanne Cleaver

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

SOUTH MILWAUKEE, Wis. - Dan Gustin's voice bounces off the shiny windows and...

MOMS GO FOR FLEXIBILITY 

MILWAUKEE - Half an hour in the middle of the afternoon is the golden window for Denise Merkel.

In that half-hour, she hands off...

FIREHOUSE HAS IT ALL, EXCEPT POLE 

Where's the pole?

Every firehouse has a pole. Where's the pole at Milwaukee's Firehouse No. 32?

Built in 1914, this...

APPLIANCES SHOULD RULE KITCHEN DESIGN 

Moorea Hoffman had found the refrigerator of her dreams.

It was the new Thermador Freedom, and its refrigerator and freezer...

FAMILY, VOLUNTEERS RAISE OLD BARN STRUCTURE HAS PLENTY OF HISTORY 

MILWAUKEE - Surely there were days like this 156 years ago - the blue sky billowing over the green fields, a breeze clear and cool riffling...

BUILD SECOND CHANCES AT SUPPLY STORE 

MILWAUKEE, Wis. - Janet Schlee saw good bones in the 111-year- old duplex that the city of Milwaukee put up for sale in 2003 for $1.

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Mind your P's and Q's 

Imagine the chagrin of one eBay seller who tried to sell some software for an "IMB" computer. In fact, misspellings were so common on eBay, the...