$100 house?
Consuming Interests columnist Dan Thanh Dang takes on a niche marketing idea: Sell that house via raffle. She notes that there are two in Maryland, both for $100 a ticket -- a $550,000 Dunkirk home and a $186,000 Owings Mills home:
It sounds like a win-win for all involved. Ticket buyers get a chance at a realty gold mine, homeowners unload property in a down market and a charity gets a slice of the pie. But be warned that this little adventure is not for the faint of heart or the ill-prepared.
Why? Because it's not simple or quick for the owner. And for the winner, well -- it's not precisely a $100 house. Closing costs, assessments, property taxes and income taxes: That's on you. And it's not chump change, particularly because the fair-market value of the house is what you'll have to report as taxable income to the feds:
That could bump you into a far higher tax bracket and cost you thousands of dollars come tax time.
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Comments
Why 100$?
There'll be enough 1$ sales in the fall anyway ;)
Posted by: January 1954 | August 17, 2008 3:47 PM
The house of your dreams - something you buy at your dollar store!
Posted by: SupeRealtor | August 17, 2008 5:05 PM