Word: condo
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...sellers are sweetening the deal. Paying closing costs is common, as is ponying up cash for expenses like condo fees and renovations. If you fix the place up before you sell, stick to the kitchen and bathrooms, since renos in those rooms (along with new siding and windows) return the most, says a survey in Remodeling...
...have children at home is a bonus. The kids will feel invested in the place, make friends and want to visit more often when they're older. Six years ago, Nancy Fernandez Mills, 59, and her husband Mark, 58, sold their house in the Boston suburbs. They bought a condo downtown and a country home in the Berkshires in western Massachusetts. With three grown children and in-laws all living out of town, "our place in the Berkshires has become the place to come for Thanksgiving and other holidays," says Mills, author of Boomers! Funding Your Future...
...wearing his khaki uniform with the stars on the epaulets is but one of the privileges afforded Noriega as a prisoner of war. At present, Noriega resides in a special cell in the Federal Correctional Institute in Miami. His POW status affords him customized living quarters that resemble a condo more than a prison cell, what with its exercise machines, telephone and color TV. If he were treated as a common criminal, says attorney May, "He could be put with violent criminals, where he could be subjected to harsher humiliating treatment, where he could not receive the kind of exercise...
Rebecca Ruck Dunn and her husband moved to Minturn from Vail two years ago. The big draw: they could buy a single-family home for the $500,000 they'd pay for a condo at the Prada end of the valley, where Range Rovers and $3 million villas outnumber cattle and sheep. Growth, Dunn wistfully notes, is inevitable. "But," she adds, "I hope we can grow gracefully. There are resort towns that were in the position Minturn is in now. It makes sense to learn from their successes as well as their mistakes. I'd like to see an effort...
...bring, they're not willing to give it up for any arrangement that would stifle them. "It would be great if I found a relationship that allowed me to be as I am and added something to that," says documentary producer Pam Wolfe, 33, sitting in her one-bedroom condo in New York City. "But I'm not going to do anything to attract a person that means changing. I've worked long and hard to be myself...