Day six of the house left on 101 Freeway

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houseon101.jpg For rent: Green ranch home with incredible freeway access. Close to shopping. Cheap.

That could be the ad for the slowly disintegrating house that was abandoned last week during a moving nightmare and now sits on the shoulder of the northbound 101 Freeway near Studio City. It's day six of the saga, and overnight someone hung a "for rent" sign on it.

The drama began last Saturday when owner Patrick Richardson tried to move his house from Santa Monica to northern L.A. County and along the way ran into all sorts of troubles -- from wheels falling off his vehicle to smacking the house into a freeway overpass. The extreme moving adventure snarled traffic on the Hollywood Freeway for eight hours. Get the whole story HERE.

Caltrans says the house will remain a roadside fixture until Patrick can safely move it again. He has not been cited for the debacle. But taggers are having a field day with it.

Meanwhile, commuters have grand ideas for the place -- from turning it into a Starbucks, a lemonade stand or throwing a party inside. Living out of state, my dad is thinking of buying it since it should go for a reasonable rate, and he'd finally own some California property. He could pass the time there shouting at speeders.

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