Recently Mr. Heinlein introduced a smaller, two-bedroom model to attract retirees.
Other events have taken place in the lounge and in the four-bedroom model apartment.
A two-bedroom model is listed for $360,000 as a short sale; the owners paid $463,000 in 2007.
Prices start about $400,000 for a three-bedroom model, according to Philip Sampieri, a sales associate with Prudential Connecticut Realty in Trumbull.
They sell for between $125,000 for a small two-bedroom model and $175,000 for an upgraded three-bedroom unit.
The prices range from $189,900 for studios to $750,000 for the extra-large version of the three-bedroom model.
The new two-bedroom model was larger than hers and all on one level, with a dining room and a small den.
When Mr. Morejon went to see the Ellington, he was drawn not to the three-bedrooms but to the two-bedroom model apartment, a 1,200-square-foot 1,200-square-foot 1,200-square-footn aspaceextra bedroom.
It is certainly more reasonably priced than four other homes now listed in the homeowners' association, ranging from a three-bedroom model, at $1.199 million, to a five-bedroom on the waterfront for $2.849 million.
According to Lisa M. Novak, a sales representative in the Hillsborough office of Weichert Realtors, typical 1980's single-family homes range from about $350,000 for a 1,500-square-foot 1,500-square-foot 1,500-square-footcar garage up to about $425,000 for a 2,600-square-foothree-bedroomom model with an in-ground pool.
My home at the Americana for the weekend is a two-bedroom model apartment in a rental building called the Marc, outfitted with a coffee maker, a refrigerator stocked with small-batch soft drinks and, best of all, three balconies overlooking the green where I start my mornings sipping coffee, and watching the sprinklers come alive and the workers filtering in from the outside world.
