11.   For five years, the house sat vacant, so devastated by termite damage that buyers were afraid to take it on.

12.   For starters, evaluate how the house sits on its site and whether its architecture seems appropriate to the neighborhood.

13.   Hampers lives in Dublin, N.H., where his house sits on top of a hill on Lake Road, surrounded by a gate.

14.   Her house sits on the top of a hill overlooking Lake Kivu and a valley jammed with banana trees.

15.   His house sits at the foot of the Cascade Mountains, which feed the trout- and bass-rich stream that runs through his property.

16.   If the house sits vacant for two years, the developer pays the full tax.

17.   In a city so huge and so diverse, your neighborhood is more than just where your house sits.

18.   It is a middle class neighborhood where houses sit on two to five acres.

19.   It sets down principles for everything from how a house sits on its lot to the placement of walls and windows.

20.   It was determined that the house was sitting on a belt of marine clay and the only way to preserve the structure was to move it again.