A consolation prize?
While there is no longer any doubt that Donald Trump will have to leave the White House on January 20, the real estate agency which is selling the childhood home of the future ex-president of the United States is appealing directly to the fans of the latter so that they contribute and offer him.
Gift price: $ 3 million.
Via the crowdfunding site GoFundMe, the Paramount Realty agency has been offering Trumpists since Tuesday to join their efforts to reach this sum, with the promise, if the goal is reached, to then give the home to the billionaire, a former mania. of real estate.
An "intangible value"
The agency had recently tried to sell the house in the affluent Jamaica Estates neighborhood of Queens for that amount through regular auctions, without success.
Before imagining this “never used before” sales strategy, explained Misha Haghani of Paramount Realty.
"We are more likely to find a million people willing to spend three dollars each, than a rich buyer willing to put three million," he said.
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Based on his real estate standards alone, this faux Tudor, five bedroom, four bathroom home - where Mr. Trump lived until he was four years old before moving to a more opulent house nearby - would not exceed little more than the million dollars.
But "its intangible value" makes it "unique", according to Haghani.
Only 80 dollars collected ...
Already, in March 2017, shortly after the arrival of Donald Trump to power, it had sold for $ 2.14 million.
And now that the ex-real estate mogul is about to leave the White House in January "people who love him might want to say thank you or give him a leaving gift," the agent said.
The idea is to try to capitalize on the passion aroused by this “very polarizing” president, he admits.
Donald Trump, now official resident of Florida and no longer of New York, was not consulted for this operation, underlines Mr. Haghani.
Even if he no longer wanted this house - which he said when it went on sale in 2016 that he "would like to buy it" - his fans would not have invested for nothing: the GoFundMe page specifies that the house would go then to a charity chosen by the outgoing president.
And if he did not choose a charity, "we would choose one for him," says Haghani.
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Will the fans take the bait?
This Wednesday morning, a few hours after it went online, the GoFundMe page showed $ 80 in donations.