[Grovenet] Help sell the Viking house(s)

[Jeff Cooper]

As many of you are no doubt aware, FGHS each year has a "Viking House" project where their Advanced Construction students (with support from other classes and the community) build a house from scratch.  Lumbermen's and other local businesses do an excellent job of supporting the district with materials, and local real estate agent Margaret Boehmer has volunteered her service in trying to sell 1208 35th Avenue.

Every year (until now) the Viking House has sold quickly; these are difficult times however and even with a price reduction there has been no sale.  I spoke with Margaret some time ago and told her that if she agreed, I would post to Grovenet with a call to help sell last year's house, as well as this one's.

I visited last year's house and was very impressed with the craftsmanship and attention to detail the students and others put into the house.  It's amazing!  I'm wondering if there is a way that Grovenetters can get together and help facilitate a sale.

This is a unique situation and I think that it may be possible to put together some sort of "consortium" to buy the house as a group, as a way of getting money into the beleagured FGSD.  I have no experience with real estate, but would be happy to facilitate meetings (online) or create a Google Group etc. for this endeavour.  I thought I'd start out here and see what kind of response I would get.

This year's house is almost done!  Can we find a way to do this?

Here are some links from Viking House to look at as well as contact information:

http://fghsvikinghouse.com/buy.aspx (contact info there)
http://fghsvikinghouse.com/vh2008.aspx
http://fghsvikinghouse.com/vh2009.aspx

Regards,

Jeff Cooper