An Australian couple make their tropical island resort first prize in a raffle
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An Australian couple are moving but instead of selling their home, they're making it the first prize in a raffle.
Doug and Sally Beitz moved to the remote Micronesian island of Kosrae in the 1990s, but say they now want to return to Australia to enjoy being grandparents.
Tickets for the island raffle cost $49 (£37.33) and whoever wins gets the 16-room Kosrae Nautilus Resort, external.
The competition will be drawn on Tuesday.
The red pin points to their tiny island which you can't even see on this map
"We've tried to market it in a way where we are attracting people like ourselves," said Doug Beitz.
The former firefighter said he was hoping the winner would be "someone who likes warm weather, likes meeting new people from around the world and is adventurous".
"It's a big life change," he said talking about living on the tropical island.
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It lies north of the Solomon Islands and southwest of Hawaii and is home to about 6,500 people.
The competition website says the resort, which is popular for diving and fishing, is debt-free and profitable, employs 16 full-time staff and has $10,000 (£7,618) cash in the business bank account.
A night at the resort costs around £90 and is popular with surfers and divers
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The prize includes the manager's four-bedroom residence, five rental cars, two 10-seater vans, a pick-up truck and the resort restaurant.
The Beitz family originally said a minimum of 50,000 tickets would need to be sold for the contest to go ahead but they removed this requirement after the raffle began attracting global interest.
Doug and Sally's son Adam said it was his idea to stage a raffle to allow someone else the chance to live in paradise and run their own business.
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"Everyone has crazy ideas, this one just wouldn't leave me alone," he told Australia's Channel 7 earlier this month.
"The thought of selling it in a traditional way is really boring."
A close-up of the island...
Doug and Sally Beitz moved to Kosrae with their three young children in 1994 after seeing the island on a TV documentary.
They'll return as millionaires after selling more than the original allocation of tickets.
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