Ashlyn is one of Forbes Home's in-house writers and a former civil engineer-turned content writer with over six years experience. Until recently, Ashlyn focused on creating content for Forbes Home as ...

This story was supported by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. Technically, Holly Hutchinson lives in Ithaca, New York, a university town in the Fingers Lakes region in the north-central part of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Christine Callahan, pictured left, and her husband, John Callahan, hoped that a heat pump for their home in Waterville would ...

Oct. 1—Heat pumps are useful for keeping warm in Maine. But they can't replace a home's central heating system on the coldest winter days, especially in an old house. That was what Kathy Heseltine ...