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I don't know why some of us have such a strong propensity to accumulate, collect and otherwise hold on to stuff beyond a reasonable limit. Maybe we're born that way. Or, more likely, we've picked up an understandable yet unfounded fear of not having enough of what we might need someday. Whatever the reason, what starts as clutter can quickly ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Blockbuster film producer Joel Silver is looking for his second major home release in two years. After selling his Malibu estate last year for $38 million, Silver has listed his Brentwood home for sale at $77.5 million.

The bright-colored and striking Mexican modernist residence was designed by architect Ricardo Legorreta.

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Q: We are getting ready to close on our new house and discovered that the seller removed several things we thought we were buying, including the bathroom mirrors and a chandelier. Can they do this? --Anonymous

A: Property is divided into two main categories. "Real property" refers to land and everything permanently attached to it, such as your ...Read more

A desire to stay put is a strong retiree wish. AARP reports that nearly eight in 10 adults at least 50 years old want to stay in their home once they retire.

If you hope to age-in-place, or are an adult child of someone who does, there are small and big projects to make a home safe and cozy for aging residents.

Even if you're decades from ...Read more

It's an interesting question and one that comes up every time I write about how to use and maintain a dishwasher. For many readers, hand-washing dishes just feels better and is hard to let go of, especially for those who don't use enough dishes to fill the dishwasher more than a couple of times a week.

But isn't low-tech hand-washing just as ...Read more

Back to school for most kids means new shoes, a cool backpack and an unspoiled 64-pack of crayons. It also means getting back to a morning routine. This year, make breakfast a requirement in your house. All you need is 15 minutes, plus these quick and easy breakfast ideas, tips, tricks and hurry-up secrets.

FRUIT SHAKES

Start with the basic ...Read more

DENVER -- One patient at Denver Health, the city's largest safety net hospital, occupied a bed for more than four years -- a hospital record of 1,558 days.

Another admitted for a hard-to-treat bacterial infection needed eight weeks of at-home IV antibiotics, but had no home.

A third, with dementia, came to the hospital after being released ...Read more

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Millions of Californians will for the first time have new safeguards against large rent increases after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation on Tuesday capping annual rent hikes for the next decade. The new protections come as major metropolitan regions across the state have seen double-digit increases in their homeless ...Read more

Walmart is offering free grocery delivery this month.

Try out the free delivery service with a $50 grocery purchase at Grocery.walmart.com or on the free Walmart app and use code HOMEFREE at checkout through Oct. 31.

After completing your order, select delivery, pick a time, and then enter the promo ...Read more

America lacks faith in the Social Security retirement system.

Transamerica Center for Research Studies recently asked nearly 6,000 workers across all age bands if they're concerned that "Social Security will not be there for me." Nearly eight in 10 said yes.

That pessimism is in some ways understandable. The words "insolvency" and "bankrupt" ...Read more

There is no better -- and yet seemingly ridiculous -- time to save for retirement than in your late teens and early 20s.

Saving that early maximizes the power of compound growth. But suggesting to a teen with a summer job or after-school gig to focus on a goal 50 years away is a bit much. And even once your kids have launched into adulthood, ...Read more

I blame my suspicious nature on my neighborhood grocery store. The store used to be a logically arranged market with bright lights and clean floors -- a basic, friendly, functional place to shop. Then the bulldozers morphed it into a big, fancy-schmancy supermarket complete with shopping triggers like mood lighting, Starbucks, Panda Express and ...Read more

Whether you are an entrepreneurial mogul in the making or a just-getting-going gig worker, you have the extra job of having to run your own personal HR department. That means you're in charge of your retirement savings plan.

There are special retirement accounts for the self-employed. What's best is a function of where you are in your career, ...Read more

It's the rare household nearing retirement that doesn't have a few pangs of "will we be OK?" stress. Yet fewer than one in 10 retirees takes advantage of a Social Security strategy that locks in a big boost in lifetime retirement income.

A 55-year-old woman making $100,000 today who decides to wait until age 70 to start would collect a monthly ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Prominent landlord attorney Dennis Block stood before a crowd of more than 200 at an apartment owners trade show in Pasadena and, to laughs, boasted of having evicted "more tenants than anybody else on the planet Earth."

Block said he was proud to enforce what he said America was built on: property rights. He then talked about ...Read more