There were a lot of small residential developers who turned to real estate as a sideline, so there are a lot of apartments on the market right now.

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CenturyLink, which provides a lot of residential phone services, understands that most of its customers will eventually see their land lines as dinosaurs not worthy of monthly payments.

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As Gillon points out, however, commercial policies are a lot trickier than residential coverage in terms of what the insurers can or cannot do on behalf of insureds.

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The negative conditions that have prevailed in residential real estate could continue for a lot longer than some of these people expect, though.

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And unlike the competition, Lot 258 in Allsop's residential sale later this month has two underground gaol cells.

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Data services started using a lot more capacity, and even residential customers started wanting to log onto the internet.

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He says Charlotte is attractive because of its low residential real estate taxes, the ability to get a lot of home for the money, as well as quality-of-life issues, such as high standards of medical care and higher education.

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Once the internal combustion engine made society mobile, a lot of cropland was magically converted into commercial and residential development acreage.

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