Time is runnning out....
By Amy
@artemis432 (7474)
Abernathy, Texas
December 5, 2008 12:56pm CST
Ever wanted to live in NM or do you live in NM and dream of owning a home here? There is a beautiful historic home here for sale. However, with the financial recession the owners are trying out a unique way to sell their home - they are raffling it off in an Essay Contest. They need about 2800 responses.
They have been interviewed in a Santa Fe Newspaper as well as Preservation and Old Houses. I also saw them on Ebay, Seeing this house everywhere I finally decided to enter and wrote an essay. The deadline is December 15th so if you want a beautifully restored historic home hurry!
Here's the online version of the newspaper article:
http://santafe.com/Pages/1979
The link to the real estate listing and featured tour is here:http://www.realtor.com/search/listingdetail.aspx?lsn=10&srcnt=14&sid=64544dfb50aa465781c37b2d7023c6f6&lid=1100444604&loc=87511&typ=7#Detail
(right under the pictures is the virtual tour)
Since they didn't want a whole bunch of sappy I want a home essays the topic is, "The Greatness of America, the essay can be fiction, political objective, autobiographical, etc. It needs to be 750 words - which sounds like a lot but isn't. It isn't even a full page. They don't care about technical things - they say it isn't school - just write from your heart.
Here are the rules:
http://winthishistorichome.blogspot.com/
Are you interested, would you pick up everything and move here? If you won would you keep it, try to sell it, rent it out - start a non profit?
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