1.   For years, the neighborhood, known as Shaw, has been troubled by drug activity, its grand old homes sitting in disrepair.

2.   His modest two-story home sits on a nice but unremarkable street in Kansas City.

3.   In Dunn County, where the home sits, zoning and code requirements are nearly nonexistent.

4.   Ms. Pratt, whose stone home sits on an acre of land, is having an Irish garden shed built in the backyard for several thousand dollars.

5.   Nearby, small brick homes sit alongside industrial warehouses and garages, food wholesalers, gas stations, and auto-parts yards.

6.   Paul Silverman, whose home sits on the canal in this sleepy residential community, was feeding a manatee fresh water from a hose.

7.   Rastkelenyan loves her new house on quiet, tree-lined Cohasset Street where modest two- and three-bedroom homes sit behind neatly manicured lawns.

8.   The homes sit on roads named for famed authors.

9.   The Nero home sits on a hill overlooking the Hudson, across the river from Poughkeepsie.

10.   The modest Gonzalez home sits in the middle of the narrow street behind a fence on a small lot with a back yard the size of a small truck.