Historic house moves to new neighborhood after being sold for $1
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}In this photo taken Monday, March 28, 2016, workers oversee the hauling of a small home in Hillcrest, Calif., as it left the plot of land on the corner of Vermont Street and is moving east along Howard Avenue. The home, built in 1925, was being moved to a storage yard in Otay Mesa, Calif., before finally being relocated to a new lot in Chula Vista, Calif. The owner, Anne Wilson, had lived in the 800-square-foot stucco home for 23 years, plans to build a new three-story home on the lot. (Peggy Peattie/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP) NO SALES; MANDATORY CREDIT (Peggy Peattie/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP)
A San Diego woman who sold her house for $1 watched the two-story, 11-ton structure loaded onto a semi-truck with hydraulic jacks and hauled away to a new neighborhood.
Anne Wilson tells the Union-Tribune newspaper that she'd planned to tear down the 1925 home in the Hillcrest area and build a bigger one. But after being quoted $10,000 to demolish the 800-square-foot structure, she considered the $1 offer from developer Garnell Fitz-Henley.
He tells the newspaper it makes more sense to reuse homes then tear them down because of all the materials that would just go into a landfill.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Fitz-Henley says he plans to move six old houses, including Wilson's old one, to a lot in Chula Vista, where he will rent them out.