00:00How does a historic home in Maine sound? Pretty good, right? How about buying it for just one
00:05dollar? Sounds even better. Until you read the fine print. General Dynamics Bath Ironworks,
00:13a company that builds Navy ships, is selling two buildings for a buck a piece, including a circa
00:181900 home once owned by prominent shipbuilder Gardner Deering. But there's a catch, and it is
00:24a big one. You have to move the entire house, as in move it elsewhere. The buyer has until November
00:30of next year to relocate the whole building to a legally permitted site, and they're on the hook
00:35for everything. Permits, structural movers, transportation, new foundation, utilities,
00:41windows, whatever you can think of the works, they gotta pay for it. And I'm sure this won't come as
00:45a shock to you. Moving a whole house isn't cheap. Another historic Maine home was relocated earlier
00:50this year, and that project cost more than half a million dollars. But if you've got that kind of
00:56cash to spare, the Deering house comes with some serious history. Its original owner built nearly
01:01a hundred ships and helped turn Bath Maine into an industry powerhouse, once known as the City of
01:07Ships. Bath Ironworks says that it needs the property for a new facility, so if nobody steps up to buy
01:12and move the house, that house is gonna be demolished. So yeah, the house really does cost one
01:17dollar. But like always, it's the shipping and handling that'll get ya.
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