woman pays $1.75 for a house, but why?

[xnikki118x]

This makes no sense to me at all. Why buy a cheap home--on eBay no less--just to try to sell it? To get your name in the news or something?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081001/ap_on_fe_st/odd_cheap_home

Bid of $1.75 on eBay gets abandoned Saginaw home

Wed Oct 1, 6:03 PM ET

SAGINAW, Mich. - With a winning bid of just $1.75, a Chicago woman has won an auction for an abandoned home in Saginaw. Joanne Smith, 30, recently was the top bidder for the home during an auction on eBay, The Saginaw News reported. Her bid was one of eight for the home.
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"I am going to try and sell it," she told the newspaper. "I don't have any plans to move to Saginaw."

Smith said she hasn't seen the property or visited Saginaw, which has been hard-hit by economic troubles in recent years.

There's a notice on the door of the home saying a foreclosure hearing is pending, the newspaper said. She must pay about $850 in back taxes and yard cleanup costs.

The Saginaw News said it could not reach the seller, Southern Investments LLC, for comment.

[demi]

Women are dumb as bricks: fact

[Beezy]

 

[Tieno]

If someone buys it from her for 2$ she makes  25% profit

[Tauntaun]

If someone buys it from her for 2$ she makes  25% profit

  Tieno layin down the %

[tiesto]

Don't houses go for $1 in Dee-troit all the time?

[Kestastrophe]

I subscribe to TVC's theory that women aren't real people

[Yeti]

If someone buys it from her for 2$ she makes  25% profit

Well, if you don't incluede the $850 in back taxes and yard cleanup costs.

[Tauntaun]

If someone buys it from her for 2$ she makes  25% profit

Well, if you don't incluede the $850 in back taxes and yard cleanup costs.

Minor details.

[xnikki118x]

If someone buys it from her for 2$ she makes  25% profit

Well, if you don't incluede the $850 in back taxes and yard cleanup costs.

Haha seriously. She had to know about those costs before she bought the place on eBay. I just don't understand.

[CajoleJuice]

If someone buys it from her for 2$ she makes  25% profit

Well, if you don't incluede the $850 in back taxes and yard cleanup costs.

Haha seriously. She had to know about those costs before she bought the place on eBay. I just don't understand.

That's quite an assumption when it comes to your gender.

[Cormacaroni]

If someone buys it from her for 2$ she makes  25% profit

She makes 25 cents, not 25%, excluding the costs. Why am i compelled to point this out goddammit

[Cormacaroni]

But I hate math, and I suck at it.

Misused words are my true bugbear. Like this, which I just read on Salon.com, who really should know better:

'Dunst, as an inspiring novelist mired in an unsuitable relationship, has nearly nothing to do here but furrow her brow in disdain until an inevitable drunken bonding experience thaws her heart.'

I am 99% certain that the novelist in question is aspiring, rather than inspiring. Grrr.

[etiolate]

I would use it as a retreat for whenever I needed to do some serious hermiting.

[Cormacaroni]

Given that it was abandoned, you could just move in and save yourself *strains mental faculties* $851.75.

[xnikki118x]

But I hate math, and I suck at it.

Misused words are my true bugbear. Like this, which I just read on Salon.com, who really should know better:

'Dunst, as an inspiring novelist mired in an unsuitable relationship, has nearly nothing to do here but furrow her brow in disdain until an inevitable drunken bonding experience thaws her heart.'

I am 99% certain that the novelist in question is aspiring, rather than inspiring. Grrr.

Oooh that's a good one. That one and "literally" vs "practically" really get me.

I have a friend who is VERY smart, going for a phD in mathematics, and often misuses "literally". It grates on my nerves so badly!