Tim Heffernan

A thorough home inspection can be the difference between a great deal and a terrible one. Here are the questions any home buyer should ask.I recently reread the inspection report for the house my wife and I bought last January. The experience was strangely comforting.The report is far more thorough than I remembered, and its

Since 1997, New York City has purchased more than 1,800 properties to protect its drinking water. No longer.The largest single taxpayer in the Catskills is New York City.To protect its drinking water — 90 percent of which comes from Catskills watersheds — the city spent nearly three decades accumulating 156,350 acres of forest and fields.