Before n' after

I had hoped Madeline would bring home the bacon in the office lottery pool so we wouldn't have to sell. But no luck, or not enough of it, anyway. So the sign is on the lawn, and people are tramping through, pronouncing it "too small" or saying they don't like crawl-space houses.
Funny how the houses in your price range are never what you're really looking for, whatever your price range is.