News 8
Oak Cliff house is free, if you move it 
05:35 PM CDT on Friday, July 3, 2009
DALLAS -- It's a real estate deal that sounds too good to be true: A house that would sell for half a million dollars if it were in perfect shape, for free.
Of course there is a catch.
The house just west of Downtown Dallas is a real fixer-upper and to get it you have to move it.
Still, when developer Monte Anderson he looks at the house he sees what was and what could be again.
"You see all the brick and stone is in perfect condition," Anderson says.
Now, half of the windows on the old farm house are boarded up, and the rest broken out. When it was built in 1929, the land around what is now Fort Worth Avenue was all farm land.
Anderson has plans to redevelop the land, but it would break his heart to tear the hosue down, so he's been trying to give it away -- for 3 years.
"The City of Grapevine had looked at moving it to their Main Street redevelopment," he said, but "it didn't work out."
Lots of people want it, just no one so far who can come up with the $100,000 it'll take to move it.
"To move it they would cut the top and cut one of the sides, is what the movers told me, put the 3 pieces on the trailer and haul it off," Anderson says.
Anderson has already redeveloped the Belmot Hotel next door. He'd like to start building 100 mid-priced apartments here early next year.
If he can't get someone to take this old house, Anderson says they'll recycle what they can and leave the rest to the wrecking ball.
