The Fayetteville, Georgia home was featured prominently in the early seasons of the hit Netflix series stranger things found a buyer just a few weeks after registration.
The home where Joyce Byers and her sons Will and Jonathan lived in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana, has a pending offer for nearly double its asking price after it went on sale for $300,000 in mid-September. according Gizmodo.
Katie Siplon, an agent for TriCounty Realty in Savannah, told the website that her client — a Portland, Oregon-based investor whose children are fans of the show — planned to transform the home into a floor in one scary vacation location on Airbnb and hopes to have it up and running by Halloween if the construction schedule permits.
But the new owner may have to hurry. An experiment SEO notes that the house is in serious need of repairs. It is currently owned by seven siblings who grew up there. Listing agent Michael Smith told the New York Post the family doesn’t have the ability to update it themselves, so they sell it.
siplo said Gizmodo his client hopes to transform the interior of the house into a replica of the interior of the Byers family home. They also hope to use the property’s six-acre land to create something a stranger things experience fans and recreate other sets from the show, including Eddie Munson’s season four trailer.
The humble property is already receiving a healthy dose of attention in its current state, the ad notes.
“Since the show aired, fans have traveled everywhere, almost daily, just to drop by and take a picture. So much so that the owners had to put up a barricade in the driveway and ‘Private Property’ signs just to keep people out, so it goes without saying that the house gets a ton of attention,” the listing’s description reads.
The house features prominently in the early episodes of the massively popular show, now in its fourth season which has ended with 1.4 billion hours watched according to Netflix, as the place where Will Byers’ mother, Joyce Byers, communicates with her missing son while stuck in the shadowy alternate universe called “the upside down” through a ouija board like display of Christmas lights and letters.
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