Beth DeCarbo writes Counting House, the Mansion section's biweekly column about the personal finances of owning a home. She joined The Wall Street Journal in 2008 after previous positions as deputy business editor at Newsday and features editor at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She was deputy Mansion editor when the section launched in 2012 and has covered megamillion-dollar home sales, international real-estate markets and home-design trends and their effect on resale values.