Sentences with phrase «old houses in the neighborhood»

Dejected, I bought the place anyway, once I noticed that most of the other old houses in the neighborhood had wonky chimneys.

Not exact matches

Legal experts said Berkshire Hathaway's mortgage companies were carrying out the very practices outlawed by the Fair Housing Act, a 50 - year - old law that banned racial discrimination in lending, by locating their branches in white neighborhoods, employing mortgage consultants who - from their websites - appear to be overwhelmingly white and lending mostly to white borrowers.

«Investors in search of flipping returns are increasingly willing to move to secondary and tertiary housing markets and neighborhoods with older, smaller properties that are available at a deeper discount.

We want to penetrate the old neighborhoods, and have created potential for 34,000 housing units, 10,000 of which are in approved urban building plans.

His definition started with the negative: it is not broken - down public housing; not neighborhoods where children and 73 - year - olds are on their own; not decision - making in which planners, city officials or federal bureaucrats — everyone but the people call the tune.

It's based in a sprawling old house with creaky hardwood floors in a largely black section of the city called Walltown; drug problems and civic neglect give the neighborhood a reputation as a dangerous place.

We will be taking a creepy bride and either Spiderman, Superman, or Batman (I have a very indecisive two - year - old) out trick - or - treating in our neighborhood then head over to a friend's house for a little Halloween fiesta.

Opening later this spring in D.C.'s Adams Morgan neighborhood, The Line is attracting plenty of buzz, and not just because it's housed inside a cavernous 110 - year - old church.

The Mays moved here shortly after Bob's Valhalla adventure, driven out of their old neighborhood by well - intentioned fans who parked in front of the house or called their listed number at all hours.

The Industry Public House I visited is Pittsburgh's second location — the first is in the Lawrenceville neighborhood — and it serves barrel - aged Manhattans, lumberjack Old Fashioneds (made with your choice of wood smoked by a torch - wielding bartender) and wild boar bacon.

The neighborhood I live in is called «Old Town» and besides our complex, the area is full of cute houses with amazing old trees lining the streeOld Town» and besides our complex, the area is full of cute houses with amazing old trees lining the streeold trees lining the streets.

Afterward, they went on a driving tour, with Cooper narrating as they passed her grandfather's farm, the house she grew up in, the school she attended and other sites in the Old Orland neighborhood.

Conditions that give rise to lead poisoning can be found anywhere in Erie County however they are especially prevalent in neighborhoods that have a high amount of older housing.

In the North, African - American populations are largely confined to large urban areas and their less affluent first ring suburbs, and segregated neighborhoods that are a legacy of pre-Civil Rights era patterns of housing discrimination remain the norm in older parts of non-Southern cities, (although newer suburbs tend to be considerably more integrated than older neighborhoods outside the SouthIn the North, African - American populations are largely confined to large urban areas and their less affluent first ring suburbs, and segregated neighborhoods that are a legacy of pre-Civil Rights era patterns of housing discrimination remain the norm in older parts of non-Southern cities, (although newer suburbs tend to be considerably more integrated than older neighborhoods outside the Southin older parts of non-Southern cities, (although newer suburbs tend to be considerably more integrated than older neighborhoods outside the South).

Last week, 30 - year - old Karina Vetrano left her house for a jog in her Howard Beach neighborhood and never returned.

Housing in these neighborhoods is on average seven years older than elsewhere, and older buildings are more likely to harbor mold spores and fecal matter from rodent and insect infestations.

Walking outside really clears my head and our new house is in a very hilly neighborhood so I'm looking forward to more intense walks (especially since I push a stroller and carry a very heavy 7 month old in the ergo!).

Visiting their old haunts — the Rav's house where they played while he studied, the tree in the neighborhood green where they first kissed.

Four - year - old Amanda McCready is plucked from her bed in Boston's working - class Dorchester neighborhood one night while her mother, Helene (Amy Ryan), is apparently at a neighbor's house watching television.

The film explores the day - to - day Pittsburgh of neighborhoods, of patchy, unruly yards, of dive bars, of wood - paneled basements in old brick houses teetering on strenuous hills.

The story of Syracuse is familiar: misguided attempts at urban renewal in the 1960s, destruction of old neighborhoods by interstate highways penetrating the city center, expansion of suburbs facilitated by federally funded highways and tax benefits for new housing; movement of many industrial facilities to the South; and redlining of old city neighborhoods so they could not get necessary mortgages and insurance for home purchase, rehabilitation, and maintenance.

Nearly two decades later, I'm still chastened by the book's central lesson: A government policy developed by mostly benevolent leaders hoping to improve the lives of the disadvantaged — in this case, by razing old, low - income, ostensibly decaying neighborhoods in favor of gigantic public - housing skyscrapers — did incalculable harm to those it was designed to help.

Isral and his wife, Joanna, are working to renovate a 100 - year - old house in Milwaukee's Bay View neighborhood.

Thirty - something Sheryn Maples's peaceful life with her dog Ginger in her southern Indiana town is rudely interrupted when she purchases her first home in a rural neighborhood, close to a grungy old house that radiates darkness...

I was three years old when my father abandoned me and my mother in my grandmother's house atop a crooked hill on Portia Street in a Los Angeles neighborhood called Echo Park.

The hospital sat in the middle of a decayed neighborhood in the southwestern quadrant of the city, surrounded to the north and west by housing projects and to the south and east by a mix of old factories and abandoned row homes.

I live in a historical neighborhood & it takes specific personalities that buy these eclectic old houses!

At eleven years old, in a new neighborhood, Barrington passes a house, outside which a man sits and yells and watches her.

Whether you are looking for great 30 year mortgage rates for a home in the Bonnycastle neighborhood of the Highlands District, low 5 year ARM rates for a place in Werne's Row in Old Louisville, or unbelievable fha mortgage rates for a house in the South End, American Financial Resources is your low rate leader.

Q. I'm 70 years old, single and own a house located in a fancy, old, established neighborhood.

At seven years old I started the «Animal Clubhouse» and held weekly meetings for the neighborhood kids in a structure I built from pallets in the field next to my house.

The neighborhood, a tangle of narrow streets, centuries - old houses and neo-colonial government buildings, was designated a UnescoWorld Heritage site in 1997 and is now a trendy arts district with galleries, coffeehouses, street musicians and some of the city's most stylish restaurants and boutique hotels.

In a neighborhood that seems to reinvent itself at least once a week, this century - old Italian - style building houses a 60 - year - old general store - turned - restaurant.

Late - 17th - century stone houses built by founders of New Paltz; one of the oldest continuously inhabited neighborhoods in Anglo - America

Happy House is located on the south side of 30A in the quaint neighborhood of Old Florida Cottages which has a community pool and is only a short walk (or bike ride) to the beach.

The Tiong Bahru neighborhood in Singapore has one of the oldest housing estates.

Situated in the French Quarter neighborhood, in the heart of New Orleans, this family - friendly property is close to Beauregard - Keyes House, the, and Old Ursuline Convent.

Like a Mayan pyramid, the Anahuacalli Museum rises from a dense, old neighborhood in the southern environs of Mexico City, a good 1.5 - hour taxi ride from your next destination (unless it's Frida Kahlo's house and collection a short distance away).

Programming happens in the single - car garage at my older brother Zachary's house in the Lakewood neighborhood of North Little Rock, Arkansas.

This gentrified residential neighborhood is home to both old and new money, and it shows in the high walls surrounding exquisitely designed European - looking cottages and the BMWs parked in front of recently built houses.

In Kobe in 1995, most people died in their homes: the old wood houses on infill land along the railroad tracks collapsed, but deaths were caused not by roofs but by fire: gas lines burst, igniting whole neighborhoods, and water mains also broke, preventing firefightinIn Kobe in 1995, most people died in their homes: the old wood houses on infill land along the railroad tracks collapsed, but deaths were caused not by roofs but by fire: gas lines burst, igniting whole neighborhoods, and water mains also broke, preventing firefightinin 1995, most people died in their homes: the old wood houses on infill land along the railroad tracks collapsed, but deaths were caused not by roofs but by fire: gas lines burst, igniting whole neighborhoods, and water mains also broke, preventing firefightinin their homes: the old wood houses on infill land along the railroad tracks collapsed, but deaths were caused not by roofs but by fire: gas lines burst, igniting whole neighborhoods, and water mains also broke, preventing firefighting.

Repairing operable windows, shutters, and awnings on a Victorian house in a historic neighborhood overarched with 100 - year - old trees is so obviously a win - win for both preservation and sustainability.

I live in a very cool 95 year old house in a great historic neighborhood.

In my old neighborhood (I swear I am not making this up), a porn star made a very good cash offer on a house.

This past weekend I focused on looking at vacant properties on the code violation list, using the old worst house in a great neighborhood.

In the northeast, in neighborhoods like Zachary, Pride, Greenwell Springs, Baywood and Deerford, where housing stock is older, two - bedroom homes average around $ 30,000, says Z.C. Dunaway, owner of locally based Dunaway Real EstatIn the northeast, in neighborhoods like Zachary, Pride, Greenwell Springs, Baywood and Deerford, where housing stock is older, two - bedroom homes average around $ 30,000, says Z.C. Dunaway, owner of locally based Dunaway Real Estatin neighborhoods like Zachary, Pride, Greenwell Springs, Baywood and Deerford, where housing stock is older, two - bedroom homes average around $ 30,000, says Z.C. Dunaway, owner of locally based Dunaway Real Estate.

One neighborhood of old bungalow - style houses in Lake Oswego, Ore., near Portland, was so popular with developers wanting to replace the homes with bigger ones that more than a dozen homeowners posted «not for sale» signs, the Dow Jones item says.

It's a really neat old house — a two - story Colonial with four bedrooms and three baths in a great historic neighborhood.

Some neighborhoods frown on keeping an old car parked on the road in front of a house, so if you have an ancient wreck, put it in the garage or leave it in the driveway.

Because the old sports stadium is gone and the huge parking lot is available, he said the neighborhood will be densifying and four times as much housing will be built in the area compared to what was in the 333 - building, two - story Alice Griffith project — most of which was built in 1963.