In May, after prospective buyers outbid each other in a walk-through, a house on Arroyo Road in Lagunitas sold for $2.1 million. News that the house went for almost 25 percent over its asking price trickled down to another nearby homeowner; soon, renter Adam Vurek, his girlfriend and his 12-year-old

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