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Byline: Brian C. Rittmeyer Dec. 20Rick Napoleon's home felt so much bigger before it was gone. A steel beam crossing the width of the foundation was the only thing above [...]

Byline: John Allison Oct. 11This installment of 'Home Sweet Home' is presented by Bella Construction There's nothing quite like the weather in autumn. With the heat of summer finally breaking, [...]

Byline: Jeanne Huber Q: My 50-year-old townhouse has a problem: recurring nail pops that resist repair on either side of a central wall on the top floor. The nail pops [...]

Byline: Jura Koncius Company's coming. It's time to clean up your act. Getting ready for the holidays isn't just about registering your online wish list, making your hair appointments at [...]

Ask Real Estate is a weekly online column that answers questions from across the New York region. Submit yours to realestateqa@nytimes.com. Cabinet Free Fall Q. My boyfriend and I moved [...]

Q. Should I fix those little hairline cracks in my walls before selling my home? A.Without question, any hairline cracks in your walls should be repaired before putting your home [...]

Board Troubles Q. Our condo has had the same stale and corrupt board for nine years. One board member brags that other members take bribes from contractors. Our common charges [...]

Anne Corso and her husband, Nicholas, did not believe the storm would be as bad as the news reports said it would be. They were wrong. ''We saw the water [...]

Water Damage in a Co-op Building Q. My apartment has water damage on the ceilings and walls caused by water penetrating through the exterior of the building. Contractors and architects [...]

Byline: DAN DEWITT I wasn't a total sucker. I didn't lock myself into a crazy mortgage or buy a bunch of spec homes I couldn't flip. But it was the [...]

Q. Our house has wood trim with an orangy varnish in most of the rooms. Should we paint or refinish it before putting the house on the market, or leave [...]

Joanne Brand stepped gingerly through the front door of her beach house last week and headed down a narrow hallway to look for her grandmother's silver, heavy, old-fashioned cutlery dotted [...]

DAMAGE IS DELAYING RETURN OF LIGHTS The Long Island Power Authority said power was available to all but a few customers on the Rockaway Peninsula, but damage to homes and [...]

Byline: BILL STEVENS The leak started slow. Gary and Cindi Muisener couldn't afford a new roof, so they patched. Then one day three years ago, the ceiling above their bed [...]

Byline: MARY KENNEY; TIMES STAFF WRITER NEW PORT RICHEY -- Jenny Cramton Barker has new tile flooring in her living room. The rest of the floor is still dusty cement. [...]

Q. How does virtual staging compare with physical staging, and is one better than the other? A. Traditionally, staging a home for a sale has involved clearing out clutter, adjusting [...]

As you walk east on 82nd Street with the Metropolitan Museum of Art at your back, Madison Avenue up ahead and lavish homes all around, you might not notice the [...]

ONE of the advantages of being a renter is that when the roof starts leaking or the hot-water heater dies, the repair is not your responsibility -- in theory, that [...]

Byline: ANDREW MEACHAM; Times Staff Writer MADEIRA BEACH -- To Vinny Coakley, watching the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 was bad enough. Mr. Coakley, a New York native who lived [...]

Blood Isn't Thicker Than Co-op Rules QI bought my daughter a Brooklyn co-op apartment from the sponsor. She had been living there for nine months when the management decided she [...]

The Community Service Council of West Pasco will sponsor a Senior Spruce Up Day on Sept. 10 to give back to the community. One homeowner will be chosen from the [...]

Byline: Eric Heyl Aug. 14--Mary Ann Bane's home in Scott was among thousands heavily damaged in the devastating 2010 blizzard. Fast-forward 18 months. The repairs Bane paid for remain unfinished [...]

Byline: Bob Karlovits May 27--Spending time in the dank confines of wet basements can seem minor compared with the potential of some repairs. 'To fix it right, you have to [...]

I DON'T love working on my house. I have a full-time job and a similarly situated wife, four children, two dogs, one cat, various subordinate pets (fish, gecko), a tower [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED BARRYTOWN, N.Y. IS the past a burden and a trap? Or an anchor and a springboard? This opposition is being worked out daily at Rokeby, a 195-year-old, 43-room [...]

Gloucester, Mass. ANDREW SPINDLER, an antiques dealer with a well-established shop in nearby Essex, has definite opinions about everything in his granite house on Cape Ann. ''There are no curtains [...]

IT'S not often, when touring a home, that one has the chance to say, ''Love what you've done with the boiler.'' But in the Greenwich Village duplex of Kein Cross, [...]

WHEN Michael D'Souza's marriage ended seven years ago, he needed a new place to live. Mr. D'Souza, the owner of Mufti, an interior decorating store in Notting Hill, had been [...]