Some of these businesses are owned and operated by members of a single family.
It and the area around it are owned by a single family, which has managed to keep it from being overrun.
Families sleep in large plastic greenhouses on farms, tents have been erected in gardens, and homes that were built to house a single family now shelter dozens of people.
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They all seemed to have descended from a single family and to have come from private schools in the North of England where they were issued with the same clothes.
So how is it that Saudi Arabia, a country where all the real power rests with a single family, the Al-Saud, has so far resisted the turbulent forces of the Arab Spring?
The family's lawyer, Michael Shuster, told the Los Angeles Times the legal action was "one of the largest - if not the largest - restitution claims ever filed in US courts by a single family against another nation".
Conversely, if you and a buddy buy a single family home, drop it into an LLC, and rent it out, collecting a check once a month, based on the relevant authorities you likely are not conducting a trade or business.
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Due to a three-month drop in the median price of a single-family home as well as a continued decline of long-term interest rates (i.e. mortgage rates), the affordability of a single-family home has spiked back up to a level only briefly seen at the tail end of the financial crisis.
This change can be witnessed in places like Atlanta, Georgia, Detroit, Michigan, and Dallas, Texas, said Leinberger, where once rundown downtowns are being revitalized by well-educated, young professionals who have no desire to live in a detached single family home typical of a suburbia where life is often centered around long commutes and cars.
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Mr. Moosbrugger says that the family thinks of the structure as a single-family home, but one with a great deal of flexibility.
However, the downside to owning a single-family home or acreage is that it can be quite expensive.
There is an echo of Greek tragedy about the succession of blows striking a single American family.
It's what allows us to pursue our individual dreams, yet still come together as a single American family.
Building condos also takes longer than a single-family home, leaving the developer at risk should the market sour before completion.
If this happens, it can mean big fees, or even being forced to turn the dwelling back into a single-family home.
The average duration for living in a single-family home is six years and for a rental apartment, two and a half years.
The price is among the highest ever paid in the U.S. for a single-family home and is the most expensive sale on record in Malibu.
The company notes some small improvements in housing, including a single-family delinquency rate that has fallen to 3.8% from 3.96% in the second quarter this year.
The Yorkshire property was a single-family residence on 9.875 acres.
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Even at that age I could sense the gap in wealth and living standards compared to the relative comfort of growing up in a single parent family in Croydon.
Kolko dug into Census data to see how common it has been over the years for single young women (aged 25-34) with no children to own a single-family detached home.
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For example, suppose that you buy a multi-unit building only to be notified later by your city that the previous owner had not obtained the necessary permits required to convert it from a single-family dwelling.
Mr. RAMOS: And there are many educators that are already tagging our kids that if they come from a poor neighborhood, they come from a single-family home, they're going to fail, and that's the mentality.
Ford and its business associates worked with researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology to create a computer model that calculates the electricity usage of a typical single family in their home for one year and the associated savings with moving to an energy-efficient lifestyle.
Chief executive Richard Burge said the outbreak was a "crisis" for rural Britain yet ministers had refused to free up time "reserved merely for debate on a bill which will not help a single rural family and which would, if enacted, inflict yet another assault on their communities".
The nearly 20-year-old has been living with her parents in a handsome single-family home in Schwarzkollm, a village on the outskirts of Hoyerswerda with old farm houses, front yards with flower beds and a new neighborhood in which houses sprang up one after the other in a ring.
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Dawes's husband Damian, who is self-employed, admits the pressures of raising a large family on a single income can be stressful.
Now 63, he grew up in public housing, in a single-parent family in Columbus, Georgia.
Now 63, he grew up in public housing, in a single-parent family in Columbus, Ga.
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