Rizzo spared no expense on his home
When he lived in the house near Huntington Beach’s City Hall, the former city manager — who now stands accused of public corruption — walked on travertine flooring, looked through etched glass windows, passed through leaded glass doors and ate in a formal dining room beneath a coffered ceiling.

Economy, stock market create housing questions
Robert Kleinhenz, deputy chief economist for the California Assn. of Realtors, offered a chicken-egg philosophy on the housing market: How people feel about the market will dictate when things will things will turn up, but people will likely remain reluctant to feel good again until things turn up.

JERGLER
The latest blame for this drawn-out recovery can be pinned on the most recent perceptions of a soft patch in the U.S. and global economies, and the roller coaster ride the financial market went in the last two weeks, which generated more uncertainty and added drag to the economy’s forward movement, Kleinhenz said.

RIZZO
When Rizzo first moved in, Linda McFarland, who spent her career working as a commercial real estate agent, couldn’t believe the amount of remodeling the man did to his house..