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We are aware that our website contains a lot of fantastic information, and you are welcome to link to it. Links are great! Don and Maureen put countless hours into it--writing, researching, and generally braindumping our experiences with the houses (and the people who live in them) over the years.
If you or your organization would like to copy or reproduce for your own purposes, ask us. We will ask that you attribute the source of the information to historicphoenix.com with a link to historicphoenix.com. Fair enough, right? Just send one of us an email with the address of the site you will publish it on and tell us where the info will appear.
Real estate agents: Don’t even ask. Don’t. Don’t ask. Don’t even think about it. The answer is NO. This information is for the benefit of the clients of historicphoenix.com. If you want to link to it, fine, let us know. But copying, no. Permission denied. End of story.
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