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Buy a dollhouse for $169,000, and get a free real home
In this lousy real estate market, people are trying the lamest marketing ideas. The homeowner says: "After a year [of the house being on the market], I was thinking, I don't know, I have this dollhouse sitting in my basement, let me see if I can do some creative marketing." You know, I have these old baseball cards in my closet, maybe.... (Battle Creek Enquirer)
September 3, 2008 | Permalink
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The dollhouse is neat! I'd have a hard time selling something like that, though. Guess none of their children must have wanted it.
Posted by: Phranqlin | Sep 3, 2008 6:40:31 AM
Maybe I can say my 22 yr old and 19 yr old come with the house? Do you think that would make it sell quicker?
Posted by: cherie | Sep 3, 2008 6:55:45 AM
I have a dollhouse that I haven't assembled yet. It doesn't look like my real house though. I have yet to see a house kit that looks like a brick-facade doublewide. On the other hand, who in their right mind buys a real cottage that looks like the witch's house from Hansel and Gretel (that's what my kit looks like)?
Whatever floats their boat and/or gets the house sold. I wonder how you'd set up that mortgage?
Posted by: Soo | Sep 3, 2008 7:09:11 AM
Using a 1-foot-to-1-inch scale, Cadwell fashioned an exact replica of the Mann house about 15 years ago for the family's three (now-grown) children to enjoy.
I'm not an engineer, but shouldn't the scale be expressed as 1 inch to 1 foot? As written, it seems to imply that the "dollhouse" would be about the size of large office building.
Posted by: mianne | Sep 3, 2008 7:12:37 AM
No showering with a friend in that bathroom.
Posted by: thomas | Sep 3, 2008 7:20:00 AM
Have they considered lowering the price to get the house to sell instead of stupid gimmicks? Obviously if it hasn't sold for a year at that price the price is too high.
Posted by: Caffeinated Katie | Sep 3, 2008 7:24:12 AM
George Lutz: Uh... this, this is a mistake.
Realtor: How's that?
George Lutz: No, I mean your ad in the paper. Uh... this is a... It's gotta be a misprint, cause I'm a contractor, and I know what a place like this should cost. And, you know, if this is... Well, if this is true, then this is a... the deal of a lifetime.
Realtor: And what is wrong with that?
George Lutz: So, look, I gotta ask what's the catch? There's always a catch.
Realtor: There was a tragedy, a crime... a murder.
George Lutz: Houses don't kill people. People kill people.
Father Callaway: Your house frightens me, Mrs. Lutz.
Posted by: George Lutz | Sep 3, 2008 7:48:14 AM
ANYTHING FOR A SALE HUH?
Posted by: | Sep 3, 2008 8:31:13 AM
I bet John McCain buys the house, then forgets all about it! Ha, ha. I crack myself up!
Posted by: Torgo | Sep 3, 2008 8:42:33 AM
