Article: Thrift's New Role: Landlord; Chevy Chase Strives To Save Investments

Nearly every weekend, banker B.F. Saul II makes the hour-long drive from his home in Chevy Chase to a partly completed housing development near Dulles International Airport to look for signs of life.

Like a nervous mother, Saul skitters around the 3,500-acre Cascades project in Loudoun County, listening in on sales pitches, shadowing potential home buyers and even occasionally posing as a customer himself-all in an attempt to better understand what consumers want.

It may seem an odd role for the hard-boiled financier, who built Chevy Chase Federal Savings Bank into the Washington area's largest

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