Dream Home Competition – Win A House

Win a Walt Disney Resort ,Florida Entry Fee:£10 • Stylish 4 bedroom mid Townhouse Holiday home, Inc Hot Tub. • Situated in Coral Cay Resort, with amenity area complete with swimming pool, Cinema , exercise area etc. • Valued at £220,000.00 . Rental income aprox £30,000.00/year

Welcome to Caravelle Cove, a beautiful Florida townhouse nestled in a stress-free gated community right on Disney’s doorstep. Enjoy the many luxuries that Caravelle Cove offers…
Why not relax and enjoy the serenity soaking in your own private hot tub? Or a leisurely game of golf? Or for the thrill seekers, get on board one of the rides at any of the nearby theme parks!

Caravelle Cove is a 4 bedroom vacation townhouse comfortably furnished in a tropical Floridian style – your home away from home!
The house is decorated in beautiful light warm tones, enticing you into a world of serenity and relaxation.
With a fully equipped kitchen and large open plan family room, Caravelle Cove caters for all families large and small,
• The master bedroom boasts a queen sized bed and ensuite bathroom. It is located on the ground floor, making it suitable for disabled access.

•The second bedroom is located upstairs with a double bed.

•Bedrooms three and four are bright and airy, boasting two single beds.

•The upstairs bedrooms share a family bathroom. All bedrooms have separate televisions.

•Caravelle Cove is fully air-conditioned, so the tropical Florida climate will never be of any concern.

•The kitchen is fully equipped with cutlery, utensils, everything. It adjoins the living area making entertainment and catering for all occasions more enjoyable!

•The living room hosts a 42″ flatscreen television, for the whole family to enjoy!

•At the back of the home, enjoy a fitness trail, seating area AND your very own private hot tub! Tranquility at its best.

Coral Cay Resort is an amazing newly built development, located just off the 192 on the border of Orlando and Kissimmee, Florida. It is only a short distance from the Orlando International Airport and is minutes from all major theme parks including Disney World, Universal Studios, Sea World and other entertainment venues, theatres, world class shopping and Golf.

A stylish 4 bedroom mid townhouse, 2.5 bathroom, and hot tub. With a community amenity area complete with its own cinema, snooker room, swimming pools and exercise area.

This is a beautifully furnished 4 bedroom Townhome decorated in Sunny Florida Style.

The Master Bedroom is located downstairs for Disabled Access, furnished with a queen size bed and ensuite bathroom.
The 2nd bedroom located upstairs is furnished with a double bed.
The 3rd bedroom contains two single beds.
The 4th bedroom located upstairs has twin beds

Separate bath and vanity area in all bathrooms.
Fully air-conditioned throughout the house.
Exceptional Townhome features includes a Gourmet Kitchen with a large side by side Refrigerator, glass top range and all utensils.

To the rear of the property is a screened patio area with outdoor seating and a heated hot tub
Area Description
Coral Cay has been designed to provide a comfortable and family-friendly holiday Lifestyle. Comfort and peace of mind is evident throughout this quiet, amenity-rich neighborhood. The Gated entrance is graced by extensive landscaping, in all the boulevards and park areas. The community is surrounded by lush landscaping and complimented in a style that is understated and elegant.

Win a house vs Buy a house. Is Dream Home Competition a revolutionary type of Estate Agent?

This novel ‘Estate Agent’ type house-sale-competition aims to combat the downturn in property prices by selling multiple luxury or ‘Dream’ homes in a competition. Dream Home Competition Ltd. was set up by Jon Sammon of Sammon Building Contractors in 2008. In the current housing market, many people, especially those with larger more expensive properties, would loose hundreds of thousands of pounds if they were to sell their house on the open market. This novel way of selling houses allows the vendors to achieve, at least, the price they would have received pre-recession, whilst also offering anyone in the UK the exciting chance to win a life changing ‘Dream Home’ using their skill and judgement.

There have been a handful of house-sale-competitions in the UK and, to date, only one competition has successfully sold sufficient tickets to offer the house as a prize rather than a prize cash fund; The Oldborough Retreat in Devon successfully sold 46,000 £25 tickets and were able to award the house to the lucky winner in May 2009. However, they were fraught with legal issues and problems and the competition was twice stopped by the Gambling Commission.

Jon said, “We set up the web site having little understanding of the intricacies of the gambling laws and the competition was stopped by the Gambling commission after just one 1 month and we had to pay back all the ticket entries. I was given a rude awakening as to how to (or not to) run a legal competition.”  After a fast track lesson in running a legal competition Jon restarted his competition to sell the Yorkshire House. The competition ultimately sold just 731, £20 tickets which wasn’t sufficient for the Yorkshire House to be raffled. However, the competition was completed successfully and the Gambling Commission were happy for Jon to award the prize fund of £9,540 to Elizabeth Graham of Yeadon, Leeds.

With this experience under his belt and now a good understanding of running a legal competition, Jon came up with the idea of expanding the web site to have a choice of ‘dream’ houses to be won in competitions in a novel kind of Estate Agent set up, but where everyone could afford to purchase a ticket and potentially win a ‘Dream Home’. However, for Jon to have got to this stage it took 18 months and a whopping £45,000. Jon said, “We have encountered problems at almost every step including; finding a solicitor that was willing to be involved, setting up bank accounts (with Barclays) and payment options for ticket sales (ultimately Paypoint). Every business that we have graced has needed to satisfy it self that this is a legal competition and that it won’t get any negative press from the competition. All this has taken time…and money…and endurance!”

Despite the difficulties in setting it up, Jon has always been encouraged by the interest and support he has received from people with ‘dream’ properties to sell. “We even had very strong interest from a well known footballer who stood to loose £2,000,000 (2 million pounds) selling his property in the current housing market.” Along with the original five bed detached town house in Horsforth, Yorkshire worth £500,000, the web site now has a second property positioned in West Wickham, Cambridge; This six bedroom, SE Cambridge property, is currently being run as a successful holiday cottage and generates a cool £60,000 a year. The winner could either choose to live in it, continue using it as a holiday cottage and enjoy a monthly income, or cash it in and sell. The web site also encourages anyone interested in selling their property on the competition web site to make contact, “for the competition to work, we need a supply of unusual or extraordinary properties” Jon Sammon.

Over the next six to twelve months, Jon plans to take on up to three other properties, all in different categories for example; Apartment, Town House, Country residence and perhaps even a luxury Celebrity House? Each category would have a ticket price that relates to the property price and the odds of winning, for example, the less expensive Apartment may be priced at £20 a ticket and have odds of 8,000 to 1 and the Luxury Celebrity House may be priced at £50 a ticket and have odds of 100,000 to 1. What ever the odds are Dream Home Competition Ltd. always plan to give the punter a significantly better chance than they would have of winning the Lotto jackpot, (currently 14,000,000 to 1).

“‘We believe this legal completion could offer Dream Home Competition Ltd, the person selling their house and the competition winner a fantastic deal and, if successful, could offer a WIN-WIN….WIN situation!” Jon Sammon

In summary, Dream Home Competition Ltd. is an Estate Agent type house-sale-competition selling ‘Dream’ homes on a web site. By buying a ticket and using your skill and judgement to enter the competition any one could win a ‘Dream’ home!

Why did our first customers chose Dream Home Competition

‘West View Cottage, has been my ‘baby’ for 10 years; I bought it as the ‘ugly bungalow’ and during the first five years of owning as a single woman and whilst working full time I developed the Cambridgeshire cottage and my DIY skills, and had a tool box any tradesman would be proud of!

In 2005 I met my husband and moved to Berkshire, but just couldn’t let my ‘baby’ go. It had blossomed into a great party house and although I loved to have friends and family to stay, it was too big really for just the two of us. Letting it as a holiday cottage to celebratory groups just seemed an extension to this great party house and it allowed us to keep it and also still use it for our happy gatherings, it seemed to be the answer, and it was!

As the business developed and became successful, in tandem, my life in Berkshire also became settled. Then in June 2009, after nearly 3 years of ‘the process’, we adopted two beautiful toddlers, Claire and James, and they rapidly took over as my ‘babies’! With the two little ones it became increasing difficult to make the 2 hour journey up to Cambridge and keep the cottage up to date and well maintained. Unfortunately, this realisation coincided with a recession and large drops in house prices and it felt as if selling then would make all the personal hard work and financial strain of renovating it and developing it as a business, be for nothing. Then one late and sleepless night searching the Internet for ideas, I came across the Dream Home Competition….and the rest is history!’

We feel dream Home Competition has a real and affective way of selling homes. And decided we would like to give them the opportunity to sell our home for us. The whole process is very easy and hopefully if the more people who come on the site and buy tickets ,the quicker I’ll be able to sell my home.

Thanks

Jane Powell

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