Wauconda consists of only a restaurant, a small store, a gas pump, a four-bedroom house and that exclusive zip code. Nevertheless, seller Daphne Fletcher claims to take in about $300,000 per year mostly thanks to the summer travel season with tourists passing through. The new owners, Maddie and Neal Love, came in and sealed the deal after a protracted month-long bidding war, including a hopeful bid from a young boy who tried to "surprise his parents by buying a town."
Amazingly, this is not the first time an entire town has sold on the auction site. Bridgeville, California, sold for $1.78 million in 2003 and tiny Albert, Texas, went up for a $2.5 million reserve price in 2007, among others.
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