Get a House For $1... With a Catch.

Row, Row, Row Your House ......

With the depressed housing market, sellers have gotten extremely inventive at dumping their real estate. This is the story of a house in New Jersey thta recently sold for $1. This isn't some inner city Detroit shithole. This is a Robert Venturi !!!!! No, I don't know who Robert Venturi is - I guess he's the Karl Farvman of architecture. It's a beach house with a sailboat shaped window, and a huge number 9 on the front. To get it for a dollar is a steal - until you factor in the external costs...

You see, it was the main house on a piece of property Barnegat Light, but the new owners of the property had no plans for the house - except to flatten it for something newer and bigger. Rather than demolish it, the owners sold it Robert Gotkin and Deborah Sarnoff, who own a plastic surgery practice in Manhattan. The catch? They would have to pay to move it. The cost to move it 95 miles to their house on Glen Cove , Long Island by barge? Over $100,000.

Sarnoff and Gotkin already own a Venturi built house shaped like a sailboat, and the new one will go on the same property as a guest house. Must look an amusement park at their place.. But, one man's trash is another man's treasure. That, and some people will blow $100k on anything..

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