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Family To Sell Cave Home On eBay

Posted by samzenpus on from the sell-you-all-for-scientific-experiments dept.

The credit crunch has hit cave dwellers. A Missouri family has been forced to sell the 17,000-square-foot home they created in a cave. Instead of renting a few rooms to troglodytes or morlocks, the Sleeper family have decided to list the cave on eBay. Curt Sleeper said, "We don't want to move, but we need to protect our equity. We put everything we had into this home."

6 comments

  1. uncool location by jipn4 · · Score: 1

    A 17000 sq ft cave is pretty cool, figuratively and literally. Great for geeks, great in times of global warming.

    But who wants to live in Festus, MO?

    1. Re:uncool location by BanachSpaceCadet · · Score: 1

      I don't know, it seems to be a nice little hole-in-the-wall place.

    2. Re:uncool location by AvitarX · · Score: 1

      Ouch.

      That pun was so punny, I have to give props, even at the expense of offtopic mods.

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    3. Re:uncool location by jonnythan · · Score: 1

      A caver.

      No, I'm not kidding. The area is like heaven for cavers.

      Or anyone who is into the outdoors and wants to live in a country setting. There are lots of them.

    4. Re:uncool location by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 1

      But who wants to live in Festus, MO?

      Presumably someone who doesn't mind being 15 miles outside St. Louis.

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  2. Protect the Equity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "We don't want to move, but we need to protect our equity. We put everything we had into this home."

          Which reminds one immediately of two sayings: "Never put all your eggs in the same basket." and "A fool and his money are soon parted.".

          Considering the media buzz about this (it was even on CNBC last night) then perhaps these people will find someone foolish enough to buy it - but THERE IS A REASON HOME PRICES ARE COMING DOWN, IDIOTS. The "equity" is gone already, you just don't know it yet.