Tiny house used to promote 'Up' may go up for auction

KING-TV, Seattle

Show Caption Hide Caption Tiny 'Up' house set for foreclosure auction The tiny house that inspired the movie 'Up' may go up for a forclosure auction next month. The current owners owe more than $185,000 on the property.

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this article mischaracterized the house's role in the creation of the movie 'Up'

The tiny Seattle house that was used to promote the movie Up-- and which sits right in the middle of development in Seattle --may go up for a foreclosure auction next month.

According to the Seattle P-I, the current owner of Edith Macefield's former home owes more than $185,000 on the property.

The report says unless the debt is settled, the house could up for auction on March 13.

Macefield made national news when she turned down a $1 million offer from developers to sell it to make room for the new Ballard Blocks development. They were forced to build around it.

Publicists for the Disney movie Up, which centers around an old man who escapes developers by taking flight in his home via helium balloons, tied balloons to the home in 2009 to market the film.

Macefield died in 2008.

This article originally appeared on KING5.