--- zona himmelsbach <[email protected]> wrote: > Is it not legal to purchase an auctioned house in Erie County? Yes, it is legal to buy a house by auction but not necessarily wise. Online sellers misrepresent properties all the time to "investors" who never set foot here. That is part of the problem. At the risk of repeating myself, what people may go after you for is buying and promptly reselling at an inflated price without bringing the property up to code. This is my last word on the subject. For the benefit of those who wish to use this list for its intended purpose, please take the discussion of flipping elsewhere. Here's one suitable place: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BfloIssueAlerts/ *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:**:-.,_,.-* Cynthia Van Ness, MLS, bettybarcode AT yahoo DOT com http://www.BuffaloResearch.com "Everyone claims to want a city, but no one here wants city living. City living by its definition is crowded. It is tolerant of other people. It is dependent on a sophisticated population that makes a hundred compromises daily so that they can benefit from the collective energy that a city generates." --Robert N. Davis, Jr. (1955-2007)