Deferred maintenance used to be a quiet line item in a budget spreadsheet. Now it is reshaping which homes sell, which ...

When homeowners put off basic upkeep year after year, the damage rarely shows up all at once. It creeps in through small ...

Leaders in Washington, in both the executive and legislative branches, cite infrastructure as a top priority for the new Congress. All agree that the case for serious investment has been made. But ...

“Deferred maintenance” is a terrible misnomer for what really happens when maintenance doesn’t get performed for a long time. Another name for it is “catastrophic failure.” According to participants ...

The Minnesota commissioner of administration is making his case for jump-starting repairs on nearly 1,000 state-owned buildings that are either in poor or crisis condition because of delayed ...

After months of house hunting, one frustrated homebuyer sparked a firestorm on Reddit by calling out the state of so-called ...

The full impact of the most recent national economic downturn is behind us. Only a small percentage of homes listed for sale today technically qualify as “distressed properties” – meaning either a ...

Poudre School District officials exaggerated the district's deferred maintenance needs by more than $415 million during efforts to pitch voters a $375 million bond issue to build new schools in ...

Roofing Supervisor Bob Bockas and Director of Facilities Management Clint Lord survey the roof of Armstrong Hall. The roof is near the end of its life and will cost $1 million to replace. (Photo by ...