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Thursday, June 26, 2008 12:00 AM

Beautiful new home comes with free ... wife?

One Florida real estate agent will sell you a lovely house -- with her in it.

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Thursday, June 26, 2008 02:28 PM

Just like Soylent green

In the movie, women came with the homes, like furniture, and coordiated with the decor and value of the home.

Ick.

Thursday, June 26, 2008 02:30 PM

Wife?

You know, I think she's actually a Real Doll. Look at the pictures. Different clothes, different rooms, but almost exactly the same strange and unnatural pose. Her neck looks very uncomfortable. Either she has a weird idea of how to emphasize one's assets or her joints aren't fully articulated and would only bend so far.

Thursday, June 26, 2008 02:30 PM

The Florida real estate market has crashed.

She's likely lost her income and is about to lose her home. She's probably desperate.

This is sad, but on the continuum of prostitution, she's just more overt and extreme than most, but we all sell ourselves.

ALL of US.

Thursday, June 26, 2008 02:45 PM

Extended terrace?

You can say that again!

Thursday, June 26, 2008 02:51 PM

Obvious Ms Devon no have MBA

If want for sell self and house in package deal for potential male buyer absolute no include word "fairytale" "romance" or "real love" in copy. This is why have Ms Devon no bid so far.

Need Ms Devon understand need of target market and be sure for mention many addition and upgrade, blonde tone and central rack.

Make extreme sad me this on several level.

Thursday, June 26, 2008 02:59 PM

Funny

"Extended terrace?

You can say that again!"

HA!!!

Thursday, June 26, 2008 03:03 PM

This violates equal opportunity housing laws...

...unless she'd also sell to a straight woman and be her maid.

Thursday, June 26, 2008 03:07 PM

How come?

Nabob gets a star for saying my comment is funny but my comment doesn't merit a star?

Thursday, June 26, 2008 03:15 PM

The wonders of Craig and his list.

This ad is posted under "Vacation Rentals". I think that pretty much clears it all up.

Thursday, June 26, 2008 03:21 PM

@Drachen

I think it's because there are stars and then there are stars. The "editor's choice" comments get a little red star next to the title. I'm not sure what the little yellow stars by people's names are, but I remember it meaning something different. Maybe when you get a bunch of red stars you get a yellow one.

Thursday, June 26, 2008 03:25 PM

"Maybe when you get a bunch of red stars you get a yellow one."

No, you get a yellow one when you start paying for a subscription.

Thursday, June 26, 2008 03:34 PM

Okay.

Two things:

Svutlana is funny...and kind.

Ms. Berman's concern strikes me as regressive. Here's why:

I have a friend whose artist-mother stayed alive at Auschwitz by painting the guards' wives. So, she prostituted her creativity to live. Many artists do this today. Attend any craft fair and you'll see artists selling their clay cups so that they can, on occasion, create the thing they want. Yet, such prostitution, which strikes me as more intimate than an orifice, won't ever warrant a Broadsheet alert. Why is the vulva considered more sacrosanct than the cerebral cortex of an office worker? The hands of a carpenter? The eyes of an editor?

The ideological continuum isn't a straight line. It's a loop, where the far right and the far left cuddle. Ms. Berman's concern is an example. It reminds me, in its reductiveness and prudishness, of a conversation I recently heard on one of those Christian stations. That conversation was about sex, but they couldn't say "sex" because it was...so important. It was like the folks who write G-d, as if God is even God's name. Ms. Berman is alarmed that this woman is selling her crotch, but why is the crotch holier than other body parts?

Thursday, June 26, 2008 04:14 PM

Yellow stars imply idiocy; red stars usually imply complicity

A yellow star is the sign of someone who is stupid enough to pay Salon for a subscription. Why anyone would bother subsidizing this rag is beyond comprehension. You'd think HRC's campaign could pick up the tab. Oh, wait, right -- they ran out of money.

A red star is granted by an editor when the writer says something the editor likes. Usually it implies complicity in the editor's agenda. I am sorry that I have ever gotten one.

Thursday, June 26, 2008 04:30 PM

Mmmmm

She's cute. Must be really really weird.

Thursday, June 26, 2008 04:52 PM

Something about this screams "scam"...

I can't quite put my finger on it, but there is somethng about this whole set up that just seems...off. I'm thinkning there's some kind of huge catch (and I'm not talking about her chest). Another poster made the observation her pose in both pictures seemed unnatural and identical, I noticed this too. Could be photoshopped image of the same woman with a different outfit.

Thursday, June 26, 2008 05:44 PM

Do the carpets match the drapes?

For a half mil they better.

Thursday, June 26, 2008 06:34 PM

I see a big fool that was was caught by sub-prime lending

Every guy I have shown Devon Traboscia's craig's list-offer says they are more interested in the house without her in it, but they want it at a much lower price. Traboscia obviously got herself into some big trouble with a sub-prime loan, and is trying to make something off of the deal before foreclosure, even if that means marrying a man that treats her like a trophy.

One guy I work with said he would be interesting in meeting Traboscia, and possibly taking over Travoscia's payments, as long as he could get out of whatever bad loan Traboscia has gotten herself into, and if a partnership deal (without marriage) can be worked out between the two of them. But he wasn't hopeful.

The one bit of advice my father gave me is never marry someone with bad credit or severe credit problems, because you obtain their credit if you do.

Thursday, June 26, 2008 06:38 PM

Not Eco Friendly

In the long run I think it would be cheaper to "drill" off the coast of Florida; she looks like high maintenance to me.

Thursday, June 26, 2008 06:52 PM

On second thought

This might not be such a bad deal for a man of moderate wealth to obtain both US citizenship and property.

Friday, June 27, 2008 06:36 AM

sorry lady

I'm pretty sure than men looking to purchase a trophy wife are looking for a woman with, shall we say, fewer miles on her. I don't think they are looking for a 42 yr old divorced mother of two.

Bleach blondes with breast implants are a dime a dozen in West Palm Beach, sorry.

Friday, June 27, 2008 07:01 AM

She posted the wrong pics

She inadvertently posted pics of her dog.lol

Friday, June 27, 2008 10:14 AM

Equal Opportunity Laws...

"This violates equal opportunity housing laws...

...unless she'd also sell to a straight woman and be her maid.

-- area woman"

The advert doesn't say anything about the buyer needing to be a man (I think she knows better being a realtor). Honestly, I think she'd just be happy to have someone get her out of her crappy mortgage and let her keep living in the house.

Depending on the details of her offer of "summers in Europe," I might be interested in buying her out. As long as my husband can come along.

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