<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7ff24776-2fcf-4ee0-8998-1b014b93014e/89276CD4-E256-4B93-8D2B-BD09E371EFA0/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/02/19/Family_to_sell_cave_home_on_eBay/UPI-59271235086834/" href="http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/02/19/Family_to_sell_cave_home_on_eBay/UPI-59271235086834/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.upi.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/02/19/Family_to_sell_cave_home_on_eBay/UPI-59271235086834/"><H1>Family to sell cave home on eBay</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/02/19/Family_to_sell_cave_home_on_eBay/UPI-59271235086834/">A Missouri family says the credit crunch has forced them to put up for sale the 17,000-square-foot home they created in a cave. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/02/19/Family_to_sell_cave_home_on_eBay/UPI-59271235086834/"><P>Curt Sleeper told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch he and his family, like so many others, are victims of the credit crunch. He has been unable to obtain mortgage refinancing for the cave.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/02/19/Family_to_sell_cave_home_on_eBay/UPI-59271235086834/"><P>"We don't want to move," he said. "But we need to protect our equity. We put everything we had into this home."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/02/19/Family_to_sell_cave_home_on_eBay/UPI-59271235086834/"><P>So the Sleepers have listed the cave on eBay.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/02/19/Family_to_sell_cave_home_on_eBay/UPI-59271235086834/"><P>The couple, who have two children and are expecting a third, bought the cave, a former mine, five years ago. In the late 1950s, it had been converted to a roller rink and night club called Caveland, where <A class="tpstyle" title="Topic: Tina Turner" alt="Topic: Tina Turner" href="http://www.upi.com/topic/Tina_Turner/">Tina Turner</A> and other major stars played, the newspaper said.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/02/19/Family_to_sell_cave_home_on_eBay/UPI-59271235086834/"><P>The Sleepers lived in tents for several years while they worked on the cave, calling their temporary quarters Tentworld.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/89276CD4-E256-4B93-8D2B-BD09E371EFA0/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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