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	<title>Anna Ventura, Realtor</title>
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		<title>How to Choose Household Products Based on Energy Performance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is energy performance key for your next appliance or home system? Use Energy Star, the Consortium on Energy Efficiency, and Energy Guide to untangle the options. &#160; Energy Star is the name you likely know, but if truly stellar energy performance revs your motor, go straight to the Consortium for Energy Efficiency (CEE). What it means: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keep Your Home Sale from Falling Apart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After finding a buyer, all you have to do to make it to closing is to avoid these five traps. &#160; Mistake #1: Ignore contingencies If your contract requires you to do something before the sale, do it. If the buyers make the sale contingent on certain repairs, don’t do cheap patch-jobs and expect the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://anna-ventura.com/2011/10/keep-your-home-sale-from-falling-apart/</link>
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		<title>Energy Rebates From Your Utility Help You Manage Rising Energy Costs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Surprise: Your utility may offer big-time energy rebates to offset the cost of energy-efficient retrofits. &#160; Because regulations now give them financial rewards for meeting energy-efficiency goals. Even though it costs about one-third to one-fourth less to save a kilowatt hour through conservation than it does to build, fuel, and operate a new power plant, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://anna-ventura.com/2011/09/energy-rebates-from-your-utility-help-you-manage-rising-energy-costs/</link>
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		<title>6 Green Kitchen Remodeling Tips</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Turn your kitchen remodel bright green with these six resource-conserving tips. &#160; 1. Salvage nontraditional items for new kitchen storage. Reuse is the gold standard for green remodeling, and a little creativity goes a long way. Banks of old school lockers or lab cabinets, for example, are a hot salvage item for retro-flavored kitchen storage. 2. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4 Leaf Removal Tools that Clear Yards of Fall Debris</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just for fun, take an inventory of all the leaf removal tools cluttering your garage. If you’re like me, you’ve got a half-dozen rakes of different sizes and materials, a couple of blowers in various states of repair, and a couple of infomercial gadgets that promise to make annual leaf gathering faster and easier. In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://anna-ventura.com/2011/09/4-leaf-removal-tools-that-clear-yards-of-fall-debris/</link>
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		<title>New ‘Most Efficient’ Label Adds Tier to Energy Star Ratings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For me, buying appliances is a balancing act — I want to buy reasonably efficient appliances, but I still need to balance my checkbook at the end of the month. Energy Star just launched a pilot program for a new designation that’s supposed to help me figure out how to do that. The new “Most Efficient” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://anna-ventura.com/2011/09/new-%e2%80%98most-efficient%e2%80%99-label-adds-tier-to-energy-star-ratings/</link>
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		<title>Replacing Rain Gutters and Downspouts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Replace missing gutters and downspouts to prevent serious siding and foundation damage that may cost you $10,000 or more to repair. &#160; Cost of replacement gutters and downspouts You’ll find aluminum and vinyl gutter components surprisingly affordable. Here’s what to look for: Home centers sell 10-foot sections of gutter for less than $8. A 10-foot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://anna-ventura.com/2011/09/replacing-rain-gutters-and-downspouts/</link>
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		<title>Home Security Cameras: Peace of Mind While You’re Away</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Easy-to-install security cameras let you keep an eye on your home from afar, ensuring safety and security for you and your family. &#160; Network cameras Internet-based network cameras are a quick solution in setting up home surveillance. They connect to your broadband connection and don’t require difficult wiring or mounting. Logitech’s Alert lets you view [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://anna-ventura.com/2011/08/home-security-cameras-peace-of-mind-while-you%e2%80%99re-away/</link>
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		<title>Ants, Wasps, &amp; Mosquitoes: Do-No-Harm Defense or All-Out War?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, we’re focusing on how to prevent ants (try Cream of Wheat), yellow jackets, and mosquitoes from ruining your outdoor fun this summer. Would you rather shoo bugs away naturally? Or take no prisoners with warfare? We’ll help you do both (depending on your mood). That way, when you eat hot dogs, the bugs don’t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://anna-ventura.com/2011/08/ants-wasps-mosquitoes-do-no-harm-defense-or-all-out-war/</link>
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		<title>Garage Doors: A Guide to the Options</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The right garage door is a key to enhancing curb appeal and can have a major impact on your home&#8217;s appearance and value. &#160; &#8220;Especially on houses where the garage is front and center, the garage door absolutely has to look good,&#8221; says Casey McGrath, a real estate practitioner in Kitsap County, Wash. And it has [...]]]></description>
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