Author: CountyReviewer
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Natural Termite Treatments That Won’t Affect The Local Ecosystem
About three months ago, my wife and I began noticing that more and more cockroaches were showing up whenever we went for a late-night glass of water or snack in the kitchen. Groups of two turned to three then four and five went skittering into the cracks once the lights came on. For weeks, we…
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El Niño Is Coming, Which Means Now Is The Perfect Time To Clean Your Drains
While the 2022-2023 rainy season was one for the books, the rapid development of an extremely strong El Niño is shaping up to make the 2023-24 season quite a doozy. So, what does this mean for homeowners across southern California? El Niño years typically bring a lot more rain than the typical year, which would…
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Using A La Jolla Landscape Company To Harmonize Your Indoor And Outdoor Designs
An often overlooked aspect of designing a home is creating a continuous, congruent theme throughout the property in order to create or enhance its impact. The seamless connection between a house and, for example, its surrounding landscape can transform a property into a harmonious sanctuary. A well-executed landscape design not only enhances the beauty of…
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Eliminating Costly Maintenance In Lake Forest With Quality Fake Green Installations
Ask any golf course owner what they spend the most on during their day-to-day operations, nine times out of ten they’ll answer ‘course maintenance’. As any homeowner can tell you, keeping a lawn alive can be a near-daily headache. By multiplying that headache by the size of a typical golf course, you can imagine how…
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Finding The Best Standing Desks In L.A.
Let’s begin this post with a short personal anecdote. I’ve been working in the professional world going on twenty years now, and the me that writes to you now is significantly different from the me of 20 years ago. When I first graduated from college and began working, I was 6’0 and 175 lbs –…
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Down The Drain
Rain is rare enough in our parched little corner of the country that you think it would be a welcome event for a sudden rainstorm to show up unexpectedly. Unfortunately for me, the sudden downpour revealed a defect in my yard that had been hidden by the years-long drought. When the previous owners had repaved…
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A Way To Save Both The Environment And Your Wallet
The 4th of July is once again upon us, which means most of us are going to be grilling, taking a dip in the pool, and just generally enjoying the outdoors in general. One thing that is different this year is costs – inflation has spiked hard over the last year, meaning your patriotic party…
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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…