Dad selling £2 raffle tickets to flog his £845k six-bedroom home after struggling to find a buyer
Dunstan Low, 37, is offering £2 tickets for the chance to win his six-bedroom home in Lancashire
A FRUSTRATED dad is selling £2 raffle tickets to flog his six-bedroom luxury mansion after not being able to find a buyer.
Dunstan Low is hoping to sell half a million tickets to raise the equivalent asking price for his £845,000 six-bed Melling Manor in Lancashire.
The 37-year-old bought the Grade II listed home in 2011 for £435,000 and spent £150,000 on renovations.
But he put it on the market after he found it difficult to pay the mortgage.
After receiving no offers, he is now selling £500,000 worth of raffle tickets - and the £2 fee will cover all stamp duty and legal costs.
He told the : "We spent about 12 months renovating it as it had fallen into disrepair. We went through the whole house and took it back to how it looked originally.
“We have tried selling it and renting it but we haven’t had any success. We have had it on the market for the last two years and we have been adjusting the prices."
The sprawling six-bed home has a cinema room, ballroom, new family bathroom and kitchen and parking for six cars.
Dunstan who lives with wife Natasha, 32, and their two children Ozzy, five, and Dylan, 15, then had the brainwave of making it a raffle prize.
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The dad-of-two said: “When I first told people I was going to raffle it everyone looked at me saying ‘are you crazy, what are you doing?’
“But I have had people contact me saying it such a genius idea and they hope I beat the bank.
“They say that so many people are out there in trouble but are just sat on their behind and it’s great to see someone do something about it.”
Dunstan has sold 186,000 tickets so far including punters from Australia, Italy and America.
He wants to try to get as many people as possible to buy a raffle ticket before the August 1 deadline.
He said: “I’m hopeful we will reach 500,000 but there’s a lot of work to be done. I have just got to stop at nothing to get it done.
“I have been standing in Manchester desperately giving out postcards to people with the information.
“If we reach our target then we will donate £25,000 to the St John’s Hospice charity as our way of thanking everyone for their support.”
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