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Some tiny homes seem so ideal that it’s tempting to avoid changing them, even when life demands otherwise. That’s how Pam Austin felt when her family began outgrowing the 450-square-foot log cabin she owns on Guemes Island, off the coast of Washington. In 2000, Ms. Austin and her now ex-husband bought the little house, which
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This week’s properties are a three-bedroom in Locust Valley, N.Y., and a five-bedroom in Medford Lakes, N.J.
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Manufactured homes have traditionally offered a more affordable option for home buyers in a housing market that has few such options. And they still do, but in recent years, the prices of manufactured homes — usually called mobile homes — have been rising faster than those of traditionally-built single-family homes, according to a study by
Read MoreA 1707 Colonial in Westport, an 1879 Victorian in Ocean Grove and a three-bedroom home in Santa Fe.
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“I think I learned all the different types of fog,” said Charlotte Gale, describing her first full summer as owner and sole resident of Duck Ledges Island, the one-and-a-half-acre rocky outcropping complete with tiny cabin that she bought last year in Downeast Maine. Indeed, it was an unusually wet summer in Maine, clouding the coastline
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Theron Truluck has everything he needs, for now, in his 425-square-foot apartment in the Bronx. The modest dorm-style room, with white walls and red-tiled floors, comes with a mini fridge, a microwave, a sink, a twin-size bed, a desk and an armoire. He also has access to a shared shower and bathroom, a community kitchen,
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As they awaited the arrival of their third child in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Kerri and Neil Beggs encountered a problem familiar to families everywhere: They needed more space, but didn’t have the budget for the kind of house they wanted. “What we found was that we were in a certain price bracket, and it was
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Bodega Bay | $1.6 Million A 1989 shingle-clad house with three bedrooms and two bathrooms, on a 0.6-acre lot This house is about a mile from the Pacific Ocean, with views that also stretch east to the hills beyond the Russian River. It is a five-minute drive from beaches popular for surfing, swimming and fishing,
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This week’s properties are a four-bedroom in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., and a six-bedroom in Hopewell, N.J.
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Since 1916 and by one name or another, 233 12th St. SE in Washington has been a store — a landmark and meeting place of the Lincoln Park neighborhood. Christine Campbell, 59, recalls it always being Mott’s Market, even as it changed hands. “Grandmother would send us to the corner store to pick up things
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