Daily Real Estate News December 1, 2006
Sell a Fancy Dog House, Earn a Commission
The housing market is going to the dogs – literally.Doggie Mansions, a company in West Palm Beach, Fla., that builds designer doghouses priced anywhere from $10,500 to $100,000, is offering 10 percent commissions to real estate professionals who make the sale.
Partners (and dog lovers) Stacy Small and Donald Gorbach, a veteran real estate practitioner, started the company last summer and quickly realized the value of paying commissions. "On a $25,000 home, the commission comes to $2,500, and [real estate practitioners) don't have to split it with anybody," says Small, who goes by the title Chief Barketing Officer. "This way we can have a sales force in place."
Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Carson Palmer is among the company’s customers. He spent $25,000 on a two-story, brick-faced Doggie Mansion for his three dogs – two Rottweilers, Chuck and Homer, and a Maltese named Muffin. The 8-by-10-foot luxury dog retreat is equipped with air conditioning, a brushed micro-velvet suede couch, ceramic tile floors, large arched windows, a flat-screen plasma TV that loops classic canine movies like "Benji" and "Rin Tin Tin" and, of course, football-shaped doggie beds. The mansions take two to four weeks to build, and can be shipped around the world.
The company's Web site, www.doggiemansions.com, includes listings of dog houses.
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