Sell me yours, I'll sell you mine

House-swapping sites link consumers in different markets

By Glenn Roberts Jr., Thursday, July 3, 2008. Inman News

Michelle Wulfe and her husband had plans to move from their home in Big Bear City in Southern California to retire in Arizona.

They bought a home in Kingman, Ariz., and the real estate market there tanked soon after. They found that they liked it better back in Big Bear, and so they moved back home and kept their Kingman property on the market.

"The minute we moved the market fell ... so we moved right back into our old house. Now we have two homes."

That was about a year ago. The Kingman home is still for sale. Wulfe said she decided to try a different approach to marketing and she advertised the home on Pad4Pad.com, a Web site that is intended to facilitate house swaps.

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