http://promo.realestate.yahoo.com/freebies_from_home_builders.htmlFreebies from Home Builders
Builders are trying to lure reluctant buyers with plane tickets, new cars and even a pet peacock
By George Mannes, Money Magazine senior writer
Dec. 2, 2007
(Money Magazine) - In Seattle, a homeowner is offering round-trip airplane tickets to anywhere in the world, plus a six-night stay at a Four Seasons hotel to anyone who will just, please, buy the house he has on the market.
In New Jersey, a builder is trying to entice prospects to purchase condominiums and attached homes with a free two-year lease on a Mercedes-Benz. And in Michigan, a homeowner told potential buyers he'd throw in his peacock.
If you think these offers smack of desperation, well, you're right. With home prices nationwide expected to tumble nearly 6 percent this year and inventories of unsold houses at near record levels, sellers have good reason to feel a little frantic.
Subject: Freebies from Home Builders 
December 17th 2007, 11:38 pm
