'Exorcist' writer William Peter Blatty's onetime Hidden Hills home is listed at $27 million.

Many a childhood was haunted by the images from "The Exorcist." (Remember the little girl with the spinning head?) But even though William Peter Blatty -- the writer of that novel and movie screenplay -- once owned this place, there is not a shred of hauntedness about it.

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Apartment renters seeking information about rental issues — such as finding a unit or moving out of one — can find it in a new consumer-education guide distributed by the California Apartment Assn.

Leases and Rental Agreements, 3rd Edition, Marcia Stewart, Ralph Warner and Janet Portman, Nolo Press: 200 pp., $29.99