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I would love to move in if I won, but can you handle the 1/2 mill taxes? Most winner walk through, maybe live in for a week and then have to sell. Funny thing is the people that can actually afford to pay the real estate taxes most likely already own their "dream house".
TYLER, Texas A free house may be too expensive for Don Cruz to keep.
Cruz won the five-thousand-square-foot house in Texas in the Home and Garden Television "Dream Home" sweepstakes. The one-and-a-half (M) million-dollar home on the shores of Lake Tyler also has a boathouse.
But to keep the home, Cruz has to find a way to raise about 631-thousand dollars he owes in taxes. He had hoped to do that by renting out the boathouse and the master bedroom, but city regulations may prevent him from doing that.
He says he doesn't want to sell the house, and hopes the Tyler City Council can help him out.
Cruz won the home in April when he was selected from 39 (M) million entries. He used to live in suburban Chicago.
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