Word: split-level
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Nonetheless, other buyers remain convinced that their nest is a good investment, not just a place to live. Mary Trujillo and her husband Jay just moved from a home in Houston to Naperville, Ill., where they bought a split-level ranch for $290,000. They're spending nearly twice as much on the new place and netted only $10,000 from the sale of their Houston home--after owning it for five years. "I think I have a better chance of making money off this house," says Mary. Call it the American dream...
...Florida. Speculators who had bought condos in the hope of fast price appreciation saw the shakeout coming and dumped even more of them on the market. At the same time, demand was dampened by the maturing of baby boomers, many of whom now aspire to move from condos to split-level suburban homes with lawns. Many new condo projects, particularly luxury developments, have become virtual ghost towns. In March, Crocker National Bank repossessed a $28 million, 88-unit condo project in Glendale., Calif, because the builder had been able to sell only three apartments in two years...
...possible. Instead of crashing spaceships and trigger-happy aliens, you would have suburban houses, leaky faucets and chatty neighbors. Instead of fighting evil, you would do the dishes, watch a little TV, then call it a night. Instead of saving the world, you would be saving for a bigger split-level. It's the opposite of fun--like an '80s family sitcom without the jokes or Clark Kent without his secret identity...
There was a mirror on the shelf, and a razor and shaving cream. I thought that was odd. Wouldn't he do that at home? But I guess I figured that a man who had a perfectly good split-level and then built an underground room only half a mile away had to be kind of loo-loo. My father had a nice way of describing people like him: "The man's a character, that...
...good spy needs a good cover, and Hanssen had one of the best. He looked the quintessential suburban dad, devoted to his wife and six kids, working a government job to pay for a four-bedroom split-level house on a cul-de-sac in a modest Virginia neighborhood, Catholic school and college for the kids, and three aging cars. Neighbors often saw him walking through a neighborhood park at night, letting his dog romp, though he rarely stopped to chat. He piled the family into a van every Sunday for Mass at the same church FBI boss Louis Freeh...