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Posted on 11/11/2025 9:11:31 AM PST by Twotone
The best things in life are free — but are they actually?
Realtor.com reports a five-bedroom residence in Nantucket, Massachusetts — one worth $5 million, no less — is available for free. Yes, its owners are looking to give away the five-bedroom spread. But does that mean anyone can simply move into the Cliff Road dwelling located a stone’s throw from the ocean?
No. In this case, a prospective owner has to move the home off its foundation and transport it elsewhere in the next 180 days.
Each year, as Nantucket’s summer tourist season draws to close, a new season begins. The popular practice of “house moving,” as reported by the outlet, commences in mid-September and lasts until mid-June. During this time, local homes traded for free hitch rides to new lots across town. One video posted on Instagram last month shows a shingled home hoisted onto a truck that’s making its way ever so slowly down the road — causing a big traffic jam in its wake.
As bizarre as it may seem, this practice is far more common than may be assumed.
On Nantucket, an island off the coast of Cape Cod, the practice of uprooting properties to new plots goes back to the 1600s, according to Nantucket Preservation. The constant pressures of weather and erosion, and the island’s lack of natural building materials, made it a necessity.
But there’s a more recent reason: preservation. Homeowners in Nantucket who seek to demolish their properties were officially required by law to advertise the property for 30 days, in case someone else has the desire to take the home off their hands for the low low cost of $0.
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Reminder: Nantucket is a quick island hop away from the same Martha’s Vineyard that was aghast at illegals being bussed in. I wonder if Nantucket had illegals taint their homes and make them disposable.
“Realtor.com reports a five-bedroom residence in Nantucket, Massachusetts — one worth $5 million, no less — is available for free. “
Ckickbait.
Matthew 7:24-27
24 “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. 26 And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”
It seems to be a legal contrivance centered around Preservation. You can’t tear down a house unless you try to sell it first. It think the owners want to tear down this $5M house so that they can put up a $10M house on this piece of land. But it seems they are not allowed to begin demolition until trying to sell the $5M house first. It’s all just going through the motions required by a law.
One of Thomas Jefferson‘s 10 rules is “don’t buy what you don’t need because it is cheap“
I read the article 3 times and still didn’t understand - why exactly must this home be moved in 180 days?
Do the present owners of the property simply want to remove it and build something newer or larger?
Or is this some other issue with the land itself? Erosion or something else only hinted at in the article?
It’s a law that requires someone who wants to demolish a ‘historic’ home make it available for 0 dollars if they can move it. They have to advertise its availability for a set time.
“You can’t tear down a house unless you try to sell it first. “
Statute requires advertising it for zero dollars.
I would guess three sections.
That appears to be about a 2500 sq ft house.
I would think it would cost about $300K or more to build just that house(not the foundation, septic, well, site work) on Nantucket today. So, IF it costs $100K just to move it to another lot on the island it might be worth it.
There is an old Victorian house up the hill about a mile from me that was moved across my town about sixty years ago.
It was cut into four pieces and moved about three miles.
It has a wrap around porch on three sides and is covered with gingerbread scroll trim accents.
An 80 year old friend of mine told me about it.
You would never know
They’d have to pay me to move there.
But the house movers’ bill
Will make a guy ill
And I’ll mutter, “I should’ve said no thanks.”
I have a third line in mind, but it is not allowed on FR, and I don’t typically talk that way, so, forget it.
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