Article: Big House concept is latest trend; The housing industry has taken another step toward apartments that have the amenities, privacy and convenience of a single-family house.(HOMES)

1/3 Three bedrooms, two bathrooms and 1,640 square feet. A two-car attached garage. A tidy little yard with a patch of green grass. A back door, a front door and an alarm system. A roomy Roman tub, cove moldings and a full-size washer and dryer.

Sounds like a pretty nice suburban rambler, doesn't it?

Well, it's not. It's an apartment at the Grand Reserve, a new $43 million rental community in Woodbury. The project is the latest example of a trend in the multi-housing industry toward apartments that have the amenities, privacy and convenience of a single family house, without the mortgage and the maintenance.

Laurence Harmon, president of ...

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