How many times have you been sitting in ungodly heat just wishing you had a pool in your backyard to cool off in? Personally, there have been more than a few times where I wished I had a backyard ...

When Jim Battan spent $110,000 building a luxury pool outside his home in West Linn, Oregon in 2012, he knew he was making an investment. He couldn't have known that 10 years later, he'd earn more ...

Airbnb and Uber convinced strangers to get comfortable with renting each other’s homes and hopping into each other’s cars. Now, a newer crop of services offers the promise of helping people supplement ...

Chris, a homeowner in Des Moines, was surprised when a woman he didn’t know recently pulled into his driveway and asked if he could move his vehicles. She believed she had booked his pool for the ...

But Laskin distinguished it as a “pool incident” rather than a “Swimply incident.” As he put it, “the pool can be incredibly safe — but swimming is inherently something that requires supervision, ...

PAOLI, Pa. — On a cloudless summer morning, a begoggled Rong Wang paddles in the backyard with her husband and two children among a flotilla of floats. The speaker sparks tunes; watermelon chills in ...