A disabled mother of six who took to Craigslist last month to swap her family home for a car has finally gotten what she wanted: trading her four-bedroom house in the Detroit neighborhood of Russell Woods for a 6-year-old minivan.
The city values the house (pictured above), located in an area where Diana Ross and the Supremes once lived, at $96,000.
The vehicle valuation company, Kelley Blue Book, puts the worth of this kind of van, a silver 2006 Chevrolet Uplander with 85,000 miles, at between $5,000 and $8,500.
Despite a number of perhaps better offers that flooded in from across the nation—including a 1996 Chevrolet Corvette and a 1996 Bentley Brooklands—LaWanda Flake, 36, said that she made the decision from her heart.
“I took one of the first offers I got because I felt like it helped us both,” Flake said. “They needed the house more than anyone I spoke with. I really feel like I made a good decision.”
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