Author: CountyReviewer
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The Key To Increasing Property Value
My wife and I are in the process of finding a house for ourselves here in sunny southern California. While we swipe through properties on Realtor.com and Zillow, I’ve noted a distinct pattern in the properties my wife and I have shown more interest in. When listed, homes on these sites have a primary image…
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Getting Used To It
As the last few straggling states ended their lockdowns and businesses began their ongoing furious hiring spree, many breathed a sigh of relief as a sense of relative normalcy seemed to be returning to the world. Even the dreaded supply chain issues, which many considered a harbinger of economic doom, seemed to be easing. China,…
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Inspiration Can Strike Suddenly
For many of us, 2020 was a year of languish, with much of the time spent staring off into space as emails and IMs poured in from colleagues at work pretending that they were still busy. You knew they weren’t busy, they knew they weren’t busy, but the illusion had to be maintained or people…
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The Lawncare Struggle
When I was a youngster living out in the suburbs of east Texas, I distinctly remember a common sight in my backyard: my father, beer in hand, looking out over his carefully manicured lawn in self satisfaction. That satisfaction was ended one year with the appearance of the dreaded patch. For whatever reason, about a…
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Fun In The Sun
Summer is rapidly approaching in southern California, as we transition from the cool fog of late winter to the daily gloom of spring. With this near constant cloud cover, we know that soon we’ll be baking in the bright and powerful Cali sun. That means we have just a few scant months left to start…
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Telehealth Reaches Veterinary Care
During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, most hospitals and primary care facilities were beset by a massive wave of cancellations for non-COVID related cases and routine health appointments. The cancellations came from both the patient and provider ends, with patients avoiding health settings that would potentially bring many sick individuals together and…
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Back In Business
After the much too eventful year of 2020, Californians are excitedly gearing up to settle back in to the boring old routine of daily office commutes and normal working days. That means it’s finally time for the more entrepreneurial among us to emerge once again and begin setting up for opening up our new businesses.…
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Natural Born Killers
This may sound a bit strange, but I’ve always had something of a fascination with exterminators and exterminator companies, even as a kid. It probably emerged from seeing Men In Black and just reveling in how disgusting the primary antagonist (an alien wearing the skin of a human exterminator) was portrayed. This fascination is mostly…
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Redefining Your Divorce
There are a lot of reasons for getting a divorce, whether it be cheating, domestic abuse, or just irreconcilable differences discovered after years of living together. Often, divorces can be attributed to dire circumstances one or both participants in the partnership are facing, though those circumstances may be temporary. If your marriage ended because you…
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Water Saving Lawn Alternatives For Southern Californians
Much of California has always been a primarily arid environment, leading to much of the local plant life to be dependent on wildfires for germination. With the changing climate, California might be getting even more arid, with the parched summers leading to out of control fires even after the wettest rainy seasons on record. Water…