Things are too quiet: How about big game - a tax sale for a NHL Hockey team

[Dave2]

This one is a little rich for my blood but for maybe one of the smarter players on the board like this guy  .   

 http://www.mfi-miami.com/2012/12/as-detroit-slides-into-insolvency-red-wings-tigers-owner-owes-city-1m-in-back-taxes/

[netpred]

This reminds me of the Silverdome sale for half a million to a Canadian investor. I see G2020's fingerprints all over the Silverdome auction. Read the details here:

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20091117/METRO/911170327

The big lesson here is that the only way you can knock one out of the park is if you play the game and step up to the plate. You never know...........

Now, having said that, I will bet Dave (and anyone else here) and give my usual 24 to one odds (one pint of my choice vs. one case of canadian swill) that the Pizza man will redeem. Anyone???

[ErnestBidder]

 AAAAGGGGGHHHHHHH! Things are so quiet, I registered, so as to un-lurk, and gave Dave2 and Netpred a gold star just for posting and keeping the site alive. Is it too bold to suggest others do the same for Rob and some of the most helpful/interesting posters?

  Kudos, guys(or gals, as the case may be. Never assume anything)

[netpred]

Yes, really quiet - so why don't I throw out some news.....

Dave didn't win (or even bid) on the only property in Trent Hills that sold.

[ErnestBidder]

  I made an error: I didn't give a gold star, I gave an applaud. As far as Dave2 not bidding, he did tell us that he was going to be otherwise engaged, for a while this year, in the management of his victories over the last few years.

  I am often fascinated by the thought given to some of the winning bids; with the board being in the doldrums for a bit, perhaps past winning bidders will give the board some insight as to the reasons for past winning bids, or the story of the happenstance that led to a particular win. (Mine is below) There have been a number of interesting stories told by winners over the years: updates would be interesting.

  I wouldn't mind paying tuition at a "School of Advanced Tax Sale Property Practices & Rumination" that was run by any one of a number of senior board members; it would be worth it.

  I will tell my story in the next post.

[Dave2]

Dave didn't win (or even bid) on the only property in Trent Hills that sold.

Ernestbidder:

The board is quiet because compared to other times such as spring last year the quality of properties in at least my hunting territory is not up to my criteria.  

If they don't meet my criteria and my price I don't bid its that simple.  The property that was bought was bought by someone who I know with a different criteria.  Its not that it is a bad buy its just we have different things we look for and thank heaven because we would be bidding on the same property otherwise.

I have bid and bought in Trent Hills in past and will again in future, but I don't just buy anything and at any price.

While I await for something worthwhile to me and in territory I hunt in I need your help to settle a bit of an argument with Netpred.  Take a look at a recent picture of him doing something he has lots of practice at. (thanks to my stupidity in betting with him.)  

I say each glass counts as a beer.  He says because he drinks it all at once it is only one beer.  Opinions?

[ErnestBidder]

  I consulted a higher authourity (my wife) and she says it's 4 beers, and I agree. If it's just one beer, he will have to hold it in just one hand, not two as in the picture. It's about time you insist he drink his winnings all at once, then, when he's done, make him a "can't lose" bet, and recoup your losses. Or at least break even. All is fair, in love and beer.

  My story will wait until another posting.

[netpred]

Wanna bet that it qualies as only one?

There is only a single cup with a very unusual shape. Further, anything that I can down without taking a breath qualifies as a single beer.

Let's hear your story and I might tell you about the time I took Dave's advice and came in second by a hundred bucks  .

  I consulted a higher authourity (my wife) and she says it's 4 beers, and I agree. If it's just one beer, he will have to hold it in just one hand, not two as in the picture. It's about time you insist he drink his winnings all at once, then, when he's done, make him a "can't lose" bet, and recoup your losses. Or at least break even. All is fair, in love and beer.

  My story will wait until another posting.

[DRD]

Guess I will have to search prior posts.... bet somebody that dave would bid on trent hills

[Frank]

Ernestbidder:

Tried that once but Netpred is one smart dude.  I lost because he bet me that he would have a valid use for the extra beer and still be okay with the cops. I lost. 

See photo of his wife he provided for explanation. (This is a copy of the g rated family acceptable one he provided as proof. To make photo acceptable to Rob Netpred  had to select a brand of beer that gives a good head.)

You would not believe how good a skin conditioner beer is (it depends on the yeast) as he proved to me in shall we say other photos. 

Enough we have to get back to work otherwise I will lose my tax sale junkie status.

I've got to make me some of that 'bath-tub' beer....looks good.   Been lurking, and negotiating some non-tax sale stuff, might be able to flip to Dave for a tidy profit, and probably be able to talk him into buying beer.

[ErnestBidder]

  I will (re)tell this one: I had bid on a building lot for our new home, & attended for the opening of bids. Just after I joined others congregated in the hall, some folks beside me, in animated conversation, made it obvious, before I had time to just walk away, that their bid was higher than mine. Having read a particular story on this board (thank you, Frank), I had gone overboard on the deposit, so I went to the clerk's office, and asked to change my bid. They quickly refused, until I explained that I had decided to raise it, whereupon they looked at me as if I had lost my mind. A quick conference ensued, it being only minutes to bid opening time, a call was made, an OK received, I filled out the new paperwork (they held the old until the new was in hand), a new bid envelope, and, 60 seconds later, went to the bid opening.

  My bid won, but that's all: my wife had been working late, so we had not discussed the whole affair in any detail. That night, we set out to view the lot together. We arrived at the dirt (now mud) road, just after a healthy rain, and she said "Get rid of it". Next day, I paid the balance, and, to save myself another long drive, requested immediate registration: they drove the new deed over to the registry office and registered it! For some reaon, I couldn't get the info for the folks I'd overheard in the hallway, and I felt bad about that. It was sold within a few weeks.

  Moral: do not discuss your bid in public, and do not try to bury your wife at the end of a muddy road!

[ChrisCentral]

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