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Real estate agents warily watch COVID-19 cases rise, hoping another industry shutdown doesn’t follow

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COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are rising, mask mandates are back, and this stage of the pandemic is starting to feel like last year. Home buyers and sellers and their agents are hoping this all doesn’t mean another restriction will come back.

Early in the pandemic, while Pennsylvania allowed other businesses to continue in-person operations with safety measures in place, the governor deemed real estate nonessential and halted many in-person activities.

That restriction helped stall the usually busy spring real estate market and the momentum that had been building since the winter. So agents are warily watching as the coronavirus spreads

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Rise Gardens Double Family Garden review: A smart indoor greenhouse

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If you liked the Miracle-Gro Twelve Indoor Growing System we reviewed in early 2020, but want to grow larger quantities of herbs, fresh leafy greens, and other vegetables indoors and without soil, you’ll gobble up what Rise Gardens has to offer.

The $749 Double Family Garden sent for this review can accommodate up to 24 plants in its two growing trays, and you can stack a third tray ($200) on top and use high-capacity tray lids to grow up to 108 plants. The sturdy trays are fabricated from metal, but they have plastic inserts and plastic lids, both of which

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3M raises outlook for second half of year as office, home improvement sales rise

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3M Co. is betting on growing sales for the second half of the year, based on a strong first half that included an uptick in sales of automotive products as well as office supplies and home improvement items.

3M MMM earlier Tuesday reported second-quarter adjusted earnings of $2.59 a share on sales of $8.95 billion. Analysts polled by FactSet expected the diversified industrial company to report adjusted EPS of $2.28 a share on sales of $8.53 billion.

Shares of 3M fell about 0.5% on Tuesday. So far this year, the stock has gained 14%, compared with gains of around 17%

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Home Improvement

The Rise and Fall of Home Design Trends

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Take the omnipresent open floor plan. It seemed like a terrific and forward-looking idea—at least until everyone had to work or go to school in one room. And as many of us learned, while a once-popular chalkboard wall may be helpful for remote learning or for children to express their creativity, it can quickly turn into a dusty and unattractive mess.

That’s why the data team at Realtor.com® decided to take a look at which design trends are skyrocketing right now, based on Google search trends—and which ones are going the way of the shag carpet. What we learned is, … Read more

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