This could all be yours! HGTV's annual Dream Home sweepstakes is in full swing. This year, the designer property is located in the Florida Keys. Jump down for more photos (and details) of the $2.2 million dollar prize package.
HGTV's 2008 Dream Home: The Florida Keys Giveaway
The house itself is a 3-story, 3-bedroom, fully-furnished giant situated right on along the coastline. The winner will also receive a matching Doggy Dream Home and a 2008 GMC Yukon. You can enter the contest once a day up until Feb. 19th and the winner will be notified in the middle of March. Are you going to try for it?
We're always a bit skeptical of these kinds of sweepstakes. The winner may win the (purchase price of the) house with no strings attached but few people think about the immediate and exorbitant taxes, the utility cost of maintaining a house this size, and all the other less-glamorous but expensive details that go along with homeownership.
But don't let us talk you out of it! Take a tour of the home and, if it truly is your dream, go for it. If you win, you could always sell off the gas-guzzling Yukon and clear out much of the Ethan Allen explosion going on inside.
Photo credit: All photos from HGTV.com
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This house is really boring, sadly.
view elizabet's profile
I have to agree with elizabet. Compared to that house they did in the North Carolina mountains (I think it was last year), this is kind of a bore. I heard that none of the winners so far have been able to afford to keep the houses, and they've all held onto them for just a few weeks before selling.
view duckumu's profile
Why haven't any of them tried to turn them into B&B's or even vacation rentals. If I won the house, that is exactly what I would do.
view wwoolsey's profile
My apologies - I just realized that the GMC Yukon is a HYBRID. My "gas guzzling" assumption is only half true.
view jessica's profile
Hope that house is hurricane-proof.
I suspect none of the houses have been turned into vacation rentals or B&B's because of the tax liability and how quickly the taxes must be paid after winning. It would probably be very difficult to make that conversion unless you can take out a loan to pay the taxes then pay it off over time. If you're like many of the people who have won the houses, of moderate means living on the opposite side of the country, monitoring and upkeep are even more burdensome. If you don't have the financial means, your basic option is to sell and hopefully not at a significant discount.
view John H's profile
I think that a lot of them have been in neighborhoods where you aren't allowed to rent them out or turn them into B&B's.
This contest just makes me sad, to be honest. It's ridiculously extravagant, and the winner never really gets to enjoy the "prize".
view J. Cipa's profile