Home at center of Vick dogfighting scandal sold

SURRY, Va. -- Michael Vick's rural Surry County home at the center of a dogfighting investigation has been sold and will be auctioned Dec. 15.

The deed of sale to Todd Builders Inc. of Carrollton was filed Thursday in the Surry County Circuit Court clerk's office, the Daily Press of Newport News reported on its Web site.

The 4,600-square-foot home and property sold for $450,000; it was assessed at $747,000.

Kyle Hause Jr., a real estate agent who assisted in the transaction, said Wilbur Todd Jr., the company's owner, bought the five-bedroom house as an investment.

"Only one person can own the most famous house in America today," Hause told the newspaper. "You can ask people from coast to coast which house has the most notoriety in the country today, and it's this house."

Hause will auction off the property at 1915 Moonlight Road at noon Dec. 15, five days after the Atlanta Falcons quarterback is sentenced on a federal dogfighting conspiracy charge. Vick faces up to five years in prison.

Vick and three others pleaded guilty to the federal charge. They also face state charges.

Vick bought the 15-acre property in 2001 for $34,000 and had the house built in 2003. The property was the site of dogfights dating back to 2002.

In April, investigators seized 66 dogs, mostly pit bulls, from the property during a raid in which they also found equipment associated with dogfighting.

Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press

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