Reflecting on change and life choices

Buying fifteen houses over forty years isn’t exactly normal; Lisa Watts knows this. Sure, some of her moves were for jobs, mostly her husband's. But other moves were about pure infatuation. In this candid, often funny memoir, we meet bungalows, Colonials, two getaway homes, and an American Foursquare that Watts adored with inexplicable passion. From newlywed life in Boston to raising kids in Ohio and North Carolina and retirement in Rhode Island, she invites us along on a tour of the places she made home and the longing behind her life on the move. 

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Curb Appeal is more than a real estate memoir. It’s a love story about houses, a long marriage, the pull of fresh starts, and how the journey itself becomes its own kind of home.