The Masked Tulip Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 A couple have decided to give their £425,000 house away for free in a bid to settle their business debts.Michelle and Paul Wood, both 50, have come up with the plan to give away the home they have lived in for 11 years in Allerton, West Yorkshire, as top prize in a competition in the hope they will make a profit from advertising revenue. They decided on the unusual move when their business debts began to spiral after the luxury chocolate company they started in 2004, Theobrama in Harrogate, ran into trouble. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1219807/Couple-away-425-000-home-free-enter-competition.html#ixzz0Tjp0bBLN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
51%deposit Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 sweet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
51%deposit Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 whreres the website to sign up? i want to win the house and turn it into a btl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairies Wear Boots Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 Does this set a precedent? It's free to enter. After this, will all the muppets wanting to charge x amount of pounds (and make people answer a simple question so it's a competition not a lottery) have trouble charging for the chance to win a house? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash4781 Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 The chocolate business - unable to resolve a sticky situation . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin Allegro Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 The chocolate business - unable to resolve a sticky situation . Let's hope the house is on a quality street. Personally, I'd rather have my wealth in all gold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennon Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 Let's hope the house is on a quality street. Personally, I'd rather have my wealth in all gold. Its Twilight Robbery that - clearly the vendors are Bourne ville ans Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil B Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 This site should win an award for recyling: This post is just the 'couple raffle 1 million pound house...blah blah blah' post but with the figures altered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
200p Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 hehe the market can be cruel. A free competition - sets the new market price for raffling-houses-enterprise. Next they'll pay you to enter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Girly girl Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 Allerton ???? ****** you'd have to pay me to live there, not just give me the house. £425,000 what for the whole of Allerton ??? Disclaimer DH's family are from Allerton. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erat_forte Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 So where is the competition website? Google only returns this discussion & the Mail story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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