CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — The sale price for a Chattanooga, Tenn., house shaped like a flying saucer is nothing to phone home about.
The Space House sold at auction Saturday for a bid of $135,000. Auctioneer Terry Posey says he’s surprised bidding didn’t go higher. The sale of the 38-year-old, three-bedroom house got worldwide attention.
Posey says Pearl Johnson of Cincinnati bought the mountainside house but didn’t want to discuss the transaction.
The house has a retractable staircase that lowers to the ground. A neighbor says that feature came in handy for one former owner during an argument with her husband. She pulled up the stairway, drove her husband’s truck underneath so he couldn’t get the stairs down and left him stuck inside.
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