Today, many sassi have been restored and transformed into cosy abodes, restaurants and swish cave-hotels.
Las Ventanas has three abodes with private spa treatment rooms with massage tables and steam rooms.
The potential problems don't end once downsizers move into their snug new abodes.
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But about a decade ago they began to go upscale as architect-led firms started designing beautiful energy efficient abodes.
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Many underwater homeowners, of course, still are committed to service their financial obligations, or want to stay in their abodes.
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But gaudy abodes have fallen out of favor, according to a report released last week by online real estate brokerage Trulia.
Roaches are nocturnal creatures who prefer their cramped, dark abodes under the refrigerator and inside the cracks between the kitchen cabinets.
However, throughout the rest of the year, witchy memorabilia likes to seep from the cracks onto the tourist trail and from old Salem abodes.
Some glass abodes enjoy their wooded nooks, as the surrounding foliage allows for privacy, a notion with which all glass houses play.
Mark (who describes his own house as "Cape Cod in L.A.") is a big fan of Smith's personal abodes, both old and new.
Demand for these pricey abodes has ramped up, and inventory has tightened, according to a recent report by Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate.
More venerable abodes are fronted by thick red doors outside of which perch either a pair of lions or a pair of drum stones.
And now that house prices have fallen nationwide for the first time since the 1930s, home buyers no longer see their abodes as also great, leveraged investments, and want smaller, cheaper houses.
The current construction boom and work on the city's sewers and other parts of its infrastructure have evicted many of the rodents from their traditional abodes, pushing them on to the streets.
Likewise, the whopping 60% of young voters who favored Obama are poised to shift into spending mode, which will benefit the retail home furnishings business, as many of these Millennials look to outfit new abodes, he said.
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Airbnb, founded in August 2008, is dedicated to the promise that lots of people are willing to earn money by renting out a room in their home and that lots of people are willing to save money by crashing in strangers' abodes rather than in motels or hotels.
In developing its series of abodes, Greystoke Mahale, perched on the shores of Lake Tanganyika (the second largest and deepest freshwater lake in the world), placed the shelters just inside the tree line, creating a front-door view that is nothing but white sand and the glimmering water beyond.
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