Get a personal emergency device for your aging parent and fix up the house.
Give makerspaces and hackerspaces a chance to occupy and fix up some of these homes.
Maxx and Marshalls chain, to fix up existing stores and to expand and refurbish warehouses and offices.
As the real estate market stabilizes further, homeowners will be less hesitant to fix up their primary residence.
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Lee also scoured for a new president to help fix up Red Lobster.
Mr. Reiner started by buying old houses to fix up and resell.
The scheme involves housing associations purchasing vacant or repossessed homes to fix up and then sell on the market at a discount.
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SRA, has recently complained that it takes him eight weeks before he is able to fix up an appointment to see Ian McAllister.
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Baker said volunteers planned to get back to work Friday and fix up damaged parts of the palace, working through the weekend if needed.
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One day shortly thereafter, Bon Jovi was walking through a dilapidated section of North Philadelphia with housing crusader Sister Mary Scullion, who suggested he fix up one of the houses.
Everyone's heard about their friends who have just had the Polish plumber in to fix up the bathroom or been served a latte by a Latvian on their way to work.
When the last renter moved out of the bungalow in 2009, Ms. Prettyman, living in a condo in nearby Encinitas, took up her father's offer to fix up the house for her.
The idea was that Elliott, who had won plaudits as the head of orthopedic joint maker Zimmer Holdings, could fix up a company whose main businesses in heart stents and implanted defibrillators, used to prevent sudden cardiac death, were running into significant road blocks.
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It could take millions to fix up the structure to your and the government's liking. (Watch for asbestos and lead-based paint.) You'll also need money for insurance, and that includes liability insurance for the rabid lighthouse fans that will show up wanting to climb the lighthouse tower.
"He'd buy junkers, fix them up then he'd sell them on Craigslist, make a little money, buy a better car, fix that one up, " she said.
The strategy: snap up dozens, hundreds, even thousands, of distressed homes, fix them up and rent them out for robust returns.
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At Boston Scientific, the question is why is the guy who was supposed to fix things up leaving?
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Ironically, the hardest part about lighthouse living isn't even finding the money and time to fix one up.
"I figured I would run a car dealership, that it was better to sell cars than fix them up, " he says.
W. Bush and former British Prime Minister John Major, to buy defense businesses, fix them up and sell at a profit.
You, the next Samuel Zell, could buy an undermanaged building, fix it up, boost its occupancy and raise its rent roll.
Adding some shares of Home Depot to fix-up your portfolio makes sense.
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McCullough says the housing market became a place where homeowners could buy a house, fix it up, and sell it to another buyer in a two-year span.
If you were scuba diving and a shark came out of the blue, I'd take my penknife and I'd end that shark's life, fix you up some hammerhead stew.
But if most of these men and women waited for their friends to fix them up or for someone to approach them on the street, they'd most likely be alone forever.
After five years working for Great Experiment, he and his wife, Stephanie, had saved just enough money to buy a big fixer-upper in Oak Park, without being able to fix it up.
Remember, this case was not just about the government taking property to expand much-needed infrastructure, or confiscating condemned, dilapidated property in order to fix it up or turn it into a library.
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