Word: petroccos
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Some trades are cross-country, but others are within the same town. Consider the case of Christopher and Melissa Petrocco and Lyca Shan. The Petroccos began feeling cramped in the three-bedroom town house they shared with their two boys in Alpharetta, Ga. Eight miles away, Shan was living alone in a 3,300-sq.-ft. (307 sq m) home that was becoming too expensive and time-consuming to maintain. Though both parties had listed their home with a real estate agent--the Petroccos for two years, Shan for three months--they were unable to sell and had resigned themselves...
Still, trading houses has its drawbacks, the main one being that beggars can't be choosers. "You can't just walk into your dream neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I'll take that one,'" Melissa Petrocco says. "With swaps, you walk into a house and say, 'I can work with that...
| 1 |