Twenty-one years ago, I almost bought a home on the righthand side of Garden Avenue in the Fortgrounds area. We didn't look too hard at it b/c my wife didn't like the fact that it had a room on each floor. We didn't want the kids to be separated from us by a floor. We passed on the house. Afterwards, I expressed buyer's remorse, not b/c the house was anything special. But the location was, a coupla blocks from the lake. As my wife and I walked through the Fortgrounds area at sunset Sunday, I mentioned the near-buy. Then, to our amazement, we approached the location of the house -- and discovered it was gone. It'd been scraped, probably to make room for a monster house, like the new one on the corner across the street. Ten years from now, I'd wager that the lower-end houses in Fortgrounds (which probably are selling for $400,000 or more) are gone, replaced by these monster homes. Now, for your Wild Card ...

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