HAGERSTOWN, Md. -- Frustrated by a nationwide housing slump, a western Maryland couple is selling raffle tickets for their $390,000 house and hoping they'll sell enough $100 tickets to get the farmhouse off their hands.


Dennis Kelly and Karen Crawford put the four-bedroom house for sale for $425,000 a year and a half ago. But they say the housing slowdown means they haven't had any takers. The house is now valued at $390,000.


"We had showings every weekend and we couldn't get a buyer," Crawford told The (Hagerstown) Herald Mail. "It's part of what's happening today."

http://www.wbaltv.com/news/14947336/detail.html

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I think I catch your drift...

New home sales are for shit. Existing home sales are for shit. The housing market is for shit.

Do I get a prize?

We'll gladly throw a bottle at your face.

Bout time.