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Article: AT HOME WITH GERALD LEVERT.
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- Ebony
- Article date:
- July 1, 1999
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WHEN his real estate agent first showed him the house, Gerald Levert says he had two immediate thoughts: (1) No way am I buying this place; and (2) I have to get myself a new Realtor. "You should have seen this place when I bought it," Levert says of the modest, split-level residence on the outskirts of Cleveland, which he purchased nearly three years ago. "If you had seen it before we started working on it, you wouldn't believe it is the same house."
That's because in many ways it isn't. Before he moved in, Gerald gutted the small, decades-old residence, transforming it into a gorgeous four-bedroom, six-bathroom home, complete with music room, movie theater and ...