CDnow, an on-line vendor of music albums, E-mails certain buyers a special Web site address with lower prices.
"We were planning on making 'The Apocalypse' as a straightforward doomsday movie," Latt says, "but certain buyers told us they wanted a religious film.
Condo boards technically cannot reject prospective buyers, but brokers say some condo and co-op boards now use delaying tactics and requests for further documentation as a strategy to drive away certain buyers.
'This is my Momma's House When It Was Black.'" But he doesn't want to be known as a "black artist," and he sometimes wonders if certain buyers are swooping up his paintings just for the titles, even when they won't say their names out loud, as many of them include the word "nigga".
For certain buyers, the shed may be an outlet for baby boomer remorse.
During periods when interest rates are rising, homes offered for sale with an assumable, lower-rate mortgage may have extra appeal for certain buyers.
Certain buyers are especially sensitive and can't even look at homes that don't have no-V.O.C. paint".
Ultimately a reduction of the deduction would not quash the American dream of homeownership and, if modified, it might help certain buyers get their first homes.
"We're in a very fortunate position where we have enough sales, and now we are strategically targeting certain buyers," she said.
Imagine a market for highly sought-after items in which the makers and sellers work hard to ensure that the items go only to certain buyers, even if other buyers might be willing to pay more.
Brokers and developers say that duplexes attract certain buyers, and that if anything, their popularity seems to be on the rise.
