Let's check in with the sale of one of Charles M. Schulz's houses, shall we? The house is one that Schulz, the creator of Peanuts, lived in during the 1970s; he bought it back in 1973 for around $250,000.

Some of details original to when Mr. Schulz lived in the Montecito Heights-area house are still present in the home, like the chapel where he married second wife Jeannie Clyde in Sept. 1973.

(He purchased the home from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa shortly after divorcing his first wife, Joyce, with whom he had five children.) The book, Schulz and Peanuts, A Biography says that Schulz converted the chapel into what he called a "combination gym and family room."

Located just a few miles from Santa Rosa and the Charles M. Schulz Museum, the 7,230-square-foot home, which was built in 1949 and is located at 3699 Montecito Avenue, "is on a park-like, gated setting that has hilltop and city views. It sports four bedrooms, including the main- and second-floor master suites; five full baths plus a powder room; an in-ground pool; and a cabana with changing rooms and showers."

And the good news, it's still up for sale. Back in February, the original $2.9 million price was dropped to $2.275 million, a savings of over $600,000. Why the plunge? Well, you might think market conditions and the fact that no one's taken it since it went up a year ago, but the realtor in charge says that an adjoining building that was originally offered with the house is now being offered separately for $600,000.

You could probably proclaim yourself to be Peanuts fan #1 with the multimillion dollar purchase of a Schulz house. Though it you've got that kind of money, you could probably buy the adjoining building instead and spend the rest on a copy of Action Comics #1 with enough left over for copies of The Complete Peanuts from Fantagraphics.

So, what are you waiting for? No one ever loses money in real estate, right?

[Artwork: Snoopy's Doghouse, snagged from Fantagraphics' website, © United Features Syndicate]