Norfolt bidders, contact me to SAVE lots of MONEY !!!

[g2020]

Oh, and while you are taking jt's advice and doing CANLII searches, take a look at the Wasaga beach court case if you think that an owner will take his loss without a fight. In this case the Town of Wasaga Beach lost several million in total damages. Just one parcel was settled in court and the rest, including the large parcel that I purchased, were settled out of court, and the treasurer lost his job. When you eventually get a big one on the line you have to be squeaky clean - I was, and I got to keep a small fortune in this court case.

[worldjohn]

so mountainman if you are the high bidder you have made it very frustrating to try and save you $20,000. Perhaps you are very wealthy and don't care about money.  Judging from the way bid its seems to be the case.  You seem to be worried about the risk.  there is a risk to everything the and one must weigh the cost verses the potential. If you do an accurate cost/benefit analysis you will see that  In this case the risk is very very low and the benefit very high.   Several others have done this same deal and none have been voided!
Your first your concern was the owner coming to redeem but we explained how very unlikely that is. Your next your concern is whether our private deal could make the tax sale voidable.  Technically it is possibly voidable if it were found out that we made this deal but if it were voided it everyone would get their deposit back so no loss and no risk.  In fact that might even be a good thing because I bet you are wishing you didn't bid that much and could get your deposit back.   But the big question is; how would the treasurer ever know in the first place?  If we did it discretely 'the collector' would never know and even if there was suspicion it would be very hard for them to actually prove collusion took place.   
the only actual risk comes from this very public discussion we are having here.  so mountain man, the very smart thing to do is have a private conversation where I could explain how this could be done to minimize the risk.  However you have made that very difficult because you haven't joined this group so I cant send you a private message. and you have made no attempt to contact me privately.  It has been frustrating trying to decipher your riddles and trying to get you to contact me because obviously the way to make this low risk and not voided is to discuss this privately.  My email is worldjohn@hotmail.com  use it!
I think most here including the smart ones would agree that your bid was much higher than necessary and that my proposal is a very good idea that you should consider more seriously.  Now hurry up and contact me before there are too many more "rotations of our cosmic orb"  or don't, if you think $20,000 should be thrown in the garbage instead of your bank account.

[Frank]

Worldjohn
It would appear to me that you are spinning your wheels.  Unfortunately, you can't reason with the unreasonable.

[worldjohn]

LOL Frank yes it appears so.  But since he thinks you are one of  the "wise ones" maybe  you stating it will make him realize he is being unreasonable and silly.  I really wonder if he is actually the high bidder or someone just goofing around.

[ErnestBidder]

 How do you know (s)he's not the municipal treasurer, or their lawyer. I think (s)he's been  playing you from the start.
  Oh Oh!

[worldjohn]

I know hes not the treasurer or the lawyer as those positions require a certain level of intelligence that simply was not evident in his ridiculous riddles. the highest bidder has now paid the treasurer ( $40,000 more than he needed to and about $10,000 more than its worth)