Two fixer-uppers on College Avenue for $1 each. Oh, you need to move them, and there are some trees in the way. Surely that’s not beyond the ingenuity of some ambitious Berkeley house buyer. How much does it cost to move a house in any case?

Lance Knobel (Berkeleyside co-founder) has been a journalist for nearly 40 years. Much of his career was in business journalism. He was editor-in-chief of both Management Today, the leading business magazine... More by Lance Knobel