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...“I am for preserving the character and history of what we have — the issue is that conservation, in the way the council wants, comes at a cost and there’s no help for that as a homeowner,” she says....
...The railroad slashed through the territories of American Indians — near Elk Mountain, those had been home to the Shoshone, Cheyenne, Arapaho and Ute....
...There’s a new gondola and chairlift, the beginners’ area has been moved up to the “Greenhorn Ranch” at mid-mountain, and there are 650 acres of new experts’ terrain at Mahogany Ridge....
...selling a version of its triple-stitch shoe, the Vetta, dedicated to the mountains of Engadin....
...Climbing electricity prices last year boosted uptake, according to Rolf Hagemoen, secretary-general of the Norwegian Heat Pump Association, who recently installed one in his mountain cabin....
...“The use of the property is more important than the nationality of the owner. A foreign landlord who rents their unit provides housing for someone local. A domestic vacation homeowner does not.”...
...Gemma Antrobus, chair of the specialist travel agents group at the UK’s Association of Independent Tour Operators....
...Her husband booked us a night at a hotel three hours north of the city, so we planned a road trip stopping at Sea Ranch in Sonoma County....
...This year, nine friends and our six kids have embarked on a five-day float from a former ranch at the confluence of Thirtymile Creek and the John Day north to Oregon’s newest state park, Cottonwood Canyon...
...“Whether a guarantor is needed is very much dependent on credit referencing,” says David Cox, chief executive of the Association of Residential Letting Agents....
...“At the end of the investigation, they just came to me and they said . . . he’s got rights as a homeowner, you have rights as a staff member, all that we can do is to tell him not to come into the pilates...
...All of that makes homeowners, and politicians, worry when private equity buyers come looking at mobile-home parks in their communities....
...“When we first moved, most of the houses were ranch-style 1950s and ’60s houses,” says Craig Steblay, president of the Arcadia Camelback Mountain Neighbourhood Association and a resident since 1986....
...Philip Green, the British retail mogul, recently took refuge from legal troubles back home at Tucson’s luxurious Canyon Ranch spa....
...known as Firewise, run by the National Fire Protection Association....
...to the Santa Barbara Association of Realtors....
...Cheyenne in Wyoming is, on the face of it, an unlikely “cryptopia.”...
...● The murder rate in the city is routinely listed as among the highest in the country ● Homeowner association fees vary between buildings, but the fees for a 2-bedroom condo in 1100 Annunciation are about...
...Lines of battered RVs line certain streets in places such as Mountain View, where the courts have said they can park for 72 hours at a time....
...At the Condomínio Tijucopava in the Iporanga area, the car turns off on to a steep cobblestone track winding through the sloth-inhabited Serra do Guararu, a nature reserve....
...O’Brien, a board member of the Hollywoodland Homeowners Association, insists that tourism in the area has become such a problem that she would even welcome moving the sign elsewhere....
...The other concern is the mountain of debt that consumers are building up and whether any of the bubbles in personal loans, credit card debt, and car loans will burst....
...“There’s no doubt the events at the Bundy ranch emboldened some people who were on the edge,” he says. “There are those who co-operate....
...The International Gay Rodeo Association was founded in 1985 and has 5,000 members across the US and Canada....
...For design aficionados in Los Angeles, the inspiration that they find in the city is best described by a tumble of images and associations: “The city and its reputation — whether the film industry, iconic...
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