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Talk about a Mobile Home! Barge floats home from Wash. to Canada
by politisite | June 19, 2008 at 03:34 am
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Talk about a Mobile Home and House boat ! Barge floats 2-story home from Wash. to Canada
Here is a Story Board of the Move. Here is video of the move
HUNTS POINT, Wash. - Rolling the waterfront house onto a barge on Lake Washington took slightly more than 20 minutes. The home's maritime trip to British Columbia is taking a bit longer.
In an effort to preserve a spectacular home at a bargain price, a Canadian family is moving the 3,360-square-foot, two-story house from this suburb east of Seattle to Vancouver Island.The former owners bought the house and property for $9.4 million, according to property records, but they wanted only the 44,000-square-foot lot.
So they contacted Nickel Bros. House Moving, which then listed the home for $335,000 -- including the cost of the move.
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Most RecentMost Recommended Comments (8)
at 04:37 on June 19th, 2008
They say a successful deal is matching a motivated buyer with a motivated seller, but this takes it to fairy-tale proportions.
at 06:53 on June 19th, 2008
politisite, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 06:59 on June 19th, 2008
politisite, I located a link to a video showing the house on the barge, it's fascinating! http://www.digtriad.com/video/default.aspx?aid=197684&storyid=105645
at 10:53 on June 20th, 2008
Thanks Rhonda
at 16:18 on June 20th, 2008
You are very welcome, politisite:)!
at 07:01 on June 19th, 2008
politisite, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 09:27 on June 19th, 2008
politisite, I like this story. It's good stuff.
Crazy video! I would think this would be a lot of effort!
at 19:54 on June 19th, 2008
politisite, I like this story. It's good stuff.