When we first received a press release from one David Jenneson, Canadian writer, stating that he had plans to put the deed to the White House up for sale on Ebay, we thought, gee, this guy must be crazy. But sure enough, there it is, with the bid as of 2:45 p.m. today at around $15,000. With the estimated value at $106 million, seems like a steal to us.

So what’s the story? Jenneson claims that while researching his new book, “Night of the Realtors,” he stumbled upon an interesting piece of D.C. arcana: The deed to the White House was never signed nor recorded, and may never have existed in the first place. And because District code states that when two competing deeds for the same property exist, legal status is given to the earliest recorded one of the two, Jenneson has laid claim to the landmark himself and has placed his “property” on the open market.

Somehow, DCist suspects that this Ebay sale will not stand up in court. But as far as brilliant publicity stunts go (the winning bid also receives a free copy of Jenneson’s book), we’ll give this guy a well-deserved nod.