They bought the farm - including the seven-bedroom house, two barns, a shed and equipment - for $100,000, $25,000 down.

Gene and Lorri keep their offices and live in the seven-bedroom house.

Advertised more simply as having "stunning views", the seven-bedroom house is now on the market along with six acres of surrounding land.

They range from $700 a week for a one-bedroom cottage to $7,000 a week for a newly built six- or seven-bedroom house on the ocean.

Mr. Gibson lives in a seven-bedroom house with six roommates.

He was seated at the head of the long table in the dining room of the seven-bedroom rented house in Islington.

Instead he saw the dark bulk of seven-bedroom ghost-town houses, silent and grim.

Current sales prices range from $242,910 for a town house to $975,000 for a seven-bedroom lakefront house.

He said his company had recently sold a partially renovated seven-bedroom house on a cul-de-sac west of the Hudson Parkway for $2.5 million.

One couple who bought a 1904-vintage seven-bedroom house for $236,000 18 months ago saw their taxes rise to $6,500 from $3,300, along with a $500 sewer surcharge.