This house is being sold in Toronto, Canada for $179,900! This was forwarded to me in an email, and this is the information that came with it.

“This house, located near the intersection of Dufferin Street and Rogers Road is believed to be Toronto’s smallest house. Occupying what used to be a driveway, it’s a one-bedroom, one-bathroom house that sits on a parcel of land 7.25 feet (2.2 metres) wide and 113.67 feet (34.6 metres) long and has an interior area of just under 300 square feet (under 28 square metres).”

Here are the house’s listed features:

a. “Completely Re-Done Top-To-Bottom, Front-To-Back!”
b. Tumbled stone entrance walk
c. Renovated Bath
d. Renovated kitchen with newer stove, new cabinets and new stacked washer/dryer
e. Bedroom with Murphy bed + “Built-Ins” – doubles as den!
f. Walk-out to fenced patio
g. 100-amp service
h. 2 satellite dishes and receiver
i.  ”Window A/C Available”

You will also note the pull down bed (Murphy Bed) that is just the right size for anyone under 6′ tall. To me, the best feature of this house is the very green lawn, albeit small. If this was a customer of mine and wanted to sign up for weed control, crab grass killer and fertilizing, the price per visit would be $36. In Canada, we would do 5 applications per year. This price represents my minimum stop charge.

Old news, but worth a look for my readers.

From Fox News:

December 5, 2007: Mitt Romney has a “sanctuary mansion” no more.

The former Massachusetts governor and GOP presidential candidate has formally cut ties with the landscaping company that manicures his lawn, after it was reported that the company continued to employ illegal immigrants a year after the hiring practices were first revealed.

Romney wrote a letter Tuesday to Ricardo Saenz, of Community Lawn Service in Chelsea, Mass., terminating his contract with the company.

“Today, I fired a landscaping company that I learned was employing people who are not permitted to work here in the United States,” Romney said in a statement Tuesday. “After this same issue arose last year, I gave the company a second chance with very specific conditions. They were instructed to make sure people working for the company were of legal status. We personally met with the company in order to inform them about the importance of this matter. The owner of the company guaranteed us, in very certain terms, that the company would be in total compliance with the law going forward. Read the rest of the story here.