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The Bargain Hunters

Buyers find deals in the housing bust

by Vickie Elmer

posted 11/29/2008

A family once shut out of Ann Arbor home ownership now has a lawn to mow and taxes to pay. A young couple skipped a starter house and moved straight to a multibedroom family home. And a professional couple saved hundreds of thousands of dollars off an asking price from a few years back.

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