If you dreamed about winning that marvelous million-dollar Teller County home in the Pikes Peak Rotary Club raffle, well, dream no more.

It’s not going to happen.

Not unless more than 16,000 of the $100 tickets are sold — in the next day.

The club hoped to sell at least 18,000 tickets for the raffle that started in February with the grand goal of raising $1.8 million before a house drawing on July 9.

How close did they come?

“They sold 1,800,” raffle spokeswoman Dana Bincer said.

Uh-oh.

“We figure people will be mad. There will be flak from the general public,” Bincer said. “If  someone feels misled, they didn’t read the rules. There were minimums for every single drawing. Ticket sales were slower than expected.”

The good news is that during the past four months there were six periodic drawings, with a total of $50,000 in cash prizes awarded from $1,000-$10,000.

Bincer said tickets were sold to buyers from Colorado to Canada and Germany. She blames the economy for poor ticket sales.

The proceeds from the raffle benefit the local Goodwill, Habitat for Humanity, Prospect Home Care, Teller County Regional Animal Shelter and TESSA.

Bincer would not disclose Tuesday how much has been raised for charities so far after expenses.

Ticket buyers were notified by e-mail Tuesday that the house was out of the raffle.

“We wanted to be transparent by letting everybody know what’s going on,” Bincer said.

The e-mail came with a plea for people to buy more $100 tickets.

Bincer said if 1,205 more tickets are sold by midnight Wednesday, there will be a drawing July 9 for seven winners with prizes from $4,000 to $$28,000. If less than 1,205 more tickets are sold, the charities will get all the money from the additional sales.

“The focus should be on the charities, not the prizes,” she said. “Donations to all five are down.”

The house belongs to a former Rotarian who offered it to the club as a fundraiser for an undisclosed price, if the minimum number of tickets were sold.

The 6,300-square-foot home sits on 20 forested acres and features a penthouse to watch the sunset over Wilkerson Pass and a whirlpool bathtub where you can let it all hang out.

Now, it will go back on the market the old-fashioned way.

For raffle details: www.pikespeakrotaryraffle.com

This Teller County house was top prize in the Pikes Peak Rotary Club raffle, but it’s out of the pot now due to not enough sales of $100 tickets. The house required the sale of 18,000 tickets. Only about 1,800 tickets were sold as of Tuesday. Photo by