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California 'Troll Apartment' Sells For $430,000
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By Ben Hooper
July 3 (UPI) -- A California home dubbed the "Troll Apartment" because of its position in the mid- dle of a Los Angeles County bridge sold for $430,000 -- $180,000 over its asking price.
The listing for the Alhambra
house went viral online due to its unique position beneath the road and over the arch of a bridge over- looking the Alhambra wash.
The house, built in 1949, was listed for $250,000, but listing agent Douglas Lee said a bidding war ensued and the home ended up selling for $430,000.
"It's definitely the most unique listing I've ever had in my entire residential real estate career," Douglas Lee, the sales associate handling the prop- erty for Compass real estate, previ- ously told KTLA- TV.
The house fea- tures a "rooftop patio," a fenced-in area adjacent to the street that runs over the bridge.
"There's a lot of just unique inter- est," Lee said. "And instead of it being off-putting to people, it's actually come off as very unique and cool."
Lee said the previ- ous owner pur- chased the house in 2005 with the intention of making it into a unique getaway, but ended up only using the property
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