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For sale: $600,000 Denver home comes with a hitch - a bride, 48

Hector Gutierrez, Rocky Mountain News

Published November 2, 2005 at midnight

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Home is where the heart is, and Deborah Hale wants to put them both up for sale.

Hale, 48, is not kidding about the package deal. Her heart always will be with the man who manages to win her heart. And pay $600,000 for her Washington Park home.

Male candidates, between 40 and 60, better not snooze or they'll lose, because as far as Hale is concerned she is in her prime and ready to settle down.

"The thing is I'm 48 and I'm at the best time of my life," maintained Hale, speaking from her jewelry business in Albuquerque. "I have girlfriends between 35 and 55 that are single, and we're making our own money. We have our own careers. We're independent. We have self-confidence, and this is the best time of our lives."

From what Hale has seen on her Web site and the responses to her ad on eBay - so far, so good, she said.

"I have to say that the e-mails that I have got have been very kind and very nice," she said. "I had 50 responses on my Web site and about 10 responses through eBay so far. So everybody has been very, very nice, which you don't know how much I appreciate because this is not an easy thing to put this out all out there."

By Tuesday afternoon the ad on eBay could no longer be found, and Hale said she would look into the matter. "Hmmm," she said. "I'm not selling body parts."

She said she came up with the idea to sell her 1910, 1,847-square foot, bungalow-style home after watching an Oprah Winfrey episode in which an elderly man was touting his availability on a Web site.

"And so I was thinking I wanted to sell my house and then I wanted to also be able to meet someone, and so the idea was kind of borne out of those things," Hale said. "I thought I saw men going to extremes and doing different things, and I thought, well, no woman had ever done it."

Hale lives in Albuquerque most of the time where her wholesale company, which designs and manufactures jewelry for national retailers, is based. However, Hale said she tries to spend as much time as possible in Denver, where she has owned her home for the last four years.

When the right man buys her home and agrees to spend the rest of his life with Hale, the Minnesota native said she hopes to be able to continue operating her company out of New Mexico.

The deadline for bidding for the blonde's home and heart is Valentine's Day 2006.

"I'm looking for my soulmate, and looking for that one special person." Hale said. "I'm just a regular girl."