Here's what happened. When I decided to do this contest I contacted a couple of real estate lawyers here and my accountant. They all saw no problem with the contest or selling my home in this way. They also said to keep asking around, I did and I couldn't find anything on it being a problem. So I launched the site, and began the contest.
I got an enormous amount of positive response and a fair amount of negative response.
I've received no entries as of May 14th 2008, if I do receive any in the mail, I will return them to sender unopened from the post office. They are of no use to me.
So today I got a few e-mails telling me that what I was doing was illegal and that I better get a lawyer. So again I made a bunch of calls to see if this was possible. This time the lawyers all told me well we don't know and you should call the attorney general's office. Which I promptly did.
The AGO told me that this was not legal and that if I take the site down and cancel the contest now, I will not reap any repercussions. So that is exactly what I did.
I apologize for any inconvenience I caused anyone or any hopes that have been dashed by this turn of events. But, both jail time and fines are not on the agenda to getting to Nashville. So it goes...
The house is still for sale and you can contact my Real Estate agent for more info. Thanks and peace be with you.