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When Jill Langen decided to list her Clarkston, Michigan, home of 25 years for sale last month, she did it without the help of a real estate agent. Seven days later, she had an agreement signed with a buyer and her home was off the market. Langen’s decision to go it alone isn’t typical among America’s home sellers. Just 6% of home sales last year were for-sale-by-owner (FSBO), an all-time low, according to an annual report by the National Association of Realtors, the trade organization that represents over 1.5 million real estate professionals. However, some homebuyers and sellers may be...

A man was arrested after he jumped over a wall outside President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach on Wednesday, police said. Bijan Arceo, 32, was charged with trespassing with the intent to commit an offense. According to Palm Beach Police, on Tuesday, officers arrived at the Mar-a-Lago Club, located at 1100 South Ocean Boulevard, to help the U.S. Secret Service after agents found and stopped Arceo at the club. Police said that Arceo got inside the resort from the South Ocean Boulevard by the north service gate. Agents also said that he did not enter the sweep area...

~ EXCERPT ~ A former real estate agent drove with the partially mummified body of a homeless woman in the passenger seat of her car for between three and 10 months, according to a report. The grim discovery was made after the car was left partially blocking a driveway in Costa Mesa, Calif., on Monday and the police were called, the Orange County Register reported. When the officers arrived, they noticed a foul smell coming from inside the vehicle, a 1997 Mercury Marquis, and then saw a leg poking out from a pile of clothes used to conceal the body....

McKINNEY – A company put up a $10,000 reward Monday to help solve the slaying of a house saleswoman killed over the weekend in McKinney. Schepps Dairy announced the reward as investigators continued to search for clues in the fatal stabbing of 40-year-old Sarah Anne Walker, who was found dead Saturday in a model home at The Hemingway at Craig Ranch community. Sarah Anne Walker Police are investigating several theories, including the possibility that Ms. Walker knew her attackers, McKinney police spokesman Randy Roland said. Ms. Walker was stabbed 27 times on her upper body. "Police experience shows that [being...

Senator John Kerry delivered a withering attack Saturday on Howard Dean, trying to frame the presidential campaign in New Hampshire as a two-man race and saying voters here faced a choice between Dr. Dean's "confusion and contradiction" and his own "steady and consistent hand." With a month left until New Hampshire's primary and his standing in most polls in the state a distant second to Dr. Dean, Mr. Kerry assailed him for several of his more controversial statements about Iraq and for being unclear about what should happen to Osama bin Laden.