It's All About the Washingtons, Baby

What can you get for a dollar these days? Maybe a stick of gum? A shoelace? A quarter cup of Starbucks coffee? In Berkeley, California, it’ll get you a house. Or even two.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that UC Berkeley posted an ad on Craigslist offering two homes at a prime location for just one dollar each. Has the housing market gotten that bad? Before you go pressing the "report this scam" button, we’re here to tell you, this offer is real.

But there is a catch. The university is asking that the buyers of the homes move the structures. Yes, you read that right. They’re not asking you to move into the houses. They want you to move the actual houses.

Is that even possible? A cursory Google search proves that for every conceivable need you may have, there is someone there to profit — I mean, uh, fill it. Turns out there are people who won’t just move your couch and coffee table. There are people out there who will move the frame, the windows, the roof, the porch. Yes, even the kitchen sink.

Once you have the movers in place, all that’s left now is figuring out where to fit two houses. Oh yeah. That.

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