Amazing Real Life ‘House From Up’ For Sale

In the Pixar classic ‘Up’, grouchy Carl Fredricksen refuses to sell his beloved family home to a company that want to bulldoze it and build a skyscraper on top.

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Amazingly, the same thing happened in real life. In 2006, 84-year-old Edith Macefield turned down $1 million to sell her farmhouse to make way from a business development in Seattle.

The five-story building had to be built around her house instead, and she became a folk hero.

The story didn’t inspire ‘Up’ as some media outlets have reported, but the marketing team behind the Pixar film piggybacked on the story when the film was coming out by attaching balloons to the house.

Sadly in 2008 Edith died, leaving her home to the building superintendent called Barry Martin who she felt looked after her so well.

He sold it to a guy called Greg Pinneo for $310,000 in 2009, but the house has been derelict ever since, as you can see from the latest pictures, which show it boarded up and generally looking the worse for wear.

Now it’s up for sale. According to seattlepi.com, the current owner owes more than $185,000 on the property.

It will be sold for auction on 13 March, unless the debt is settled, to anyone brave enough to take on this rundown but extremely famous part of Seattle history.

We hope this amazing property stays standing.

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Picture credits: Getty/Pixar/Disney