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Article: Buyers hit jackpot with real estate in Las Vegas
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 13, 1990
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LAS VEGAS After living for 19 years in Southern California, Bert
and Phyllis Zimmer wanted to retire someplace else.
"My husband thought it was just too expensive to live in
California as a retiree," she said, "so we looked, but only for a
couple of months, because we made up our minds early where we wanted
to be."
They chose Las Vegas.
"We enjoy the night life, and Las Vegas is close enough to go
back to California to see our grandchildren," she said.
"And we were able to get a bigger house than we had in
California for less money," her husband said.
They sold their 5-year-old, 1,900-square-foot house in Thousand
Oaks, 35 miles northwest of Los Angeles, for $350,000, and bought ...