Topic: In difficult housing market, real-estate agents find new ways to motiv

Realtor Bill Malone last weekend staged an open house, offered at what he describes as a "give-away" $169,000.

It's a foreclosure whose starting price was $229,000.

The four-bedroom, two-bath home a block south of Sea Isle Park on Estate touts the usual adjectives and nouns to spark desire: East Memphis, granite, stainless steel, Jenn-Air, LG, hardwood, deck, Corian, detached, two-car, shop.

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