By LEILA SUMMERS
FORKS — A Forks-based business has received the bid to sell office equipment from the Enron building in Houston, Texas.
Kitty Sperry, who owns Northwest Office Network with her husband Bill, said it’s a case of everything must go that’s inside the building that housed Enron before its infamous bankruptcy.
Items are sold on a first come, first served basis, Sperry said.
Buyers from all over the country have traveled to the 44-story building to look over items and “tag” them for purchase. Items are negotiable, Sperry said, and sold for very low prices.
“It’s (sold for) pennies on the dollar,” she said.
Sperry said every item must be paid for before it leaves the building and buyers must provide their own crews to remove a purchase from the Enron building.
Sperry said items ranging from office furniture, to “thousands and thousands of office cubicles” and approximately 2,000 chairs are up for sale.
Anything left by employees inside a desk goes with the desk, Sperry said.
Lay office already gone
Buyers might be disappointed to learn that not everything in the building is up for grabs. Sperry said the office of Kenneth Lay was already purchased before the Sperrys were granted their bid for the Enron project.
Also already purchased is the tilted “E” sculpture in front of the Enron building that began the word “Enron,” Sperry said.
Sperry said she and her husband, who was expected to return from Houston over the weekend, have had their current business for two years but have been in the industry of selling used-office equipment since 1990.
