Here's a "novel" way to sell your home in trying times

Owner Of Ocala Mansion Holding Essay Contest To Give Away Home
POSTED: 5:55 pm EDT April 8, 2008

OCALA, Fla. -- The owner of a million-dollar mansion tried to sell it, but couldn't. So now she's trying an unusual new approach.
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WEB SITE: Details On Entering Mansion Essay Contest
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You could call it a sign of the times. The woman is now turning to an essay contest to help sell the house. With a $200 entry free, the house could be yours.

In order to move into the million-dollar mansion, all you have to do is write a winning essay and pay the $200 entry fee. The owner gets the fees and the winner gets the home.

Clementina Marie Giovanetti is a writer and she's authored up a novel way to sell her Ocala home. Originally, she wanted between $1 million and $1.4 million for the 5,000 square-foot residence, but buyers weren't biting.

"My wheels started turning and I thought, I got it, that's what I'm gonna do with the house, I'm gonna start an essay contest," she said.

http://www.wftv.com/news/15828442/detail.html - news report

http://www.ocalamansion.com/mansion.html for contest rules and 87 pictures of the home.

I guess in these times you need to be creative in order to sell your home. I thought it was very cool.

100-300 words isn't much of an "essay." But if I can scrape up the entrance fee, I'll give it a shot!

I forgot to include that in the original post. 300 words is easy, especially for all the pet lovers out there.

The limited word count is difficult, at least for me. I tend to be longer-winded and descriptive when I write.

...if I should win it, I'm sure I'd think of something. Maybe hold an essay contest.... ;)

You would still be ahead of the game, less the $200.00 entry fee and the cost of a stamp.

I think that is good.

The idea was popular several years before the movie was made.

5,000 entrants which is a cool mil! smart lady!

If she doesn't get 6,250 entries, she cancels the contest.

If she cancels the contest, she gets to keep 10% of the entry fees.

Instead of accepting that her home is no longer worth $1,250,000, she decides to hold this contest with a $200 entry fee and a 6,250 minimum entry requirement or she calls off the contest.

$200 x 6,250 = $1,250,000

Yeah, right.

Oh, and if she calls off the contest, she gets to keep 10% of all entry fees. So if 1,000 people sign up, she cancels the contest and gets to keep 20,000.

She's probably a repuke too.

I doubt she is a republican with the books that she has already written. Not their type of subject.

I think it is a great idea and if you don't fine. Don't enter.

and she didn't like it ...

Repuke city ... FL is a state with no "state income tax", too ...

:eyes:

Yeah...I'll send her an Essay.

"Roses are red, Violets are blue...Screw you and your Village Idiot too"

Not all of these novel ways of selling a home are legal.

to live in Florida.



Cher