(MONEY Magazine) – "In our local paper I saw an ad to buy a house and get a free trip to Hawaii." --Cheryl (and John) O'Keefe, Pleasant Hill, Calif.

"We're selling now, and we had to come down $20,000 and divide our property into two lots." --Bruce Morton Wright, Erie, Pa.

"There never used to be open houses where we live. Now they're everywhere." --Eileen (and Russell) Lynch, Scarsdale, N.Y.