Z, Problem here is out of town slum lords buy 20 houses at a time at auction with intention of flipping them to some unsuspecting buyer in another city. The houses don't sell and become boarded up crack houses that eventially blight the rest of neighborhood or someone sets on fire and then a firefighter or neighbor gets burned in fire. They attract rats, smell bad in warm weather and hurt the value of the homes that decent people live in and maintain. Kevin ---- zona himmelsbach <[email protected]> wrote: ============= If I had the circumstances to return to the Township of Tonawanda, I would buy such a house to live in and make the necessary repairs and improvements that would make it comfortable. Then I would search the attic to see if walls do talk to find out who lived there and search their family history. Is it not legal to purchase an auctioned house in Erie County? On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Cynthia Van Ness <[email protected]> wrote: > Veering off topic again, I see. > > Sorry, gotta jump in. Not that you were considering doing this > but I have to post a warning in case anyone else was. Buying > Buffalo houses at online auctions and promptly reselling them at > higher prices without making any improvements is a fraudulent > practice called flipping. It has destructive consequences for > the surrounding neighborhoods. There is a made-in-Buffalo > documentary about it: > > http://flippedmovie.com/news.php > > There is also a task force charged with halting it. See: > > http://www.buffaloflipping.com/ > > Apologies for being lecturesome. We now return to our regularly > scheduled genealogical programming. > > --- zona himmelsbach <[email protected]> wrote: > > > What is the name of your relative in Erie County who bought an > > auctioned > > house? > > > > Look what I found on a google search > > http://www.bid4assets.com/auction/index.cfm?auctionID=373537 > > > > zh > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:**:-.,_,.-* > Cynthia Van Ness, MLS, bettybarcode AT yahoo DOT com > http://www.BuffaloResearch.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) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message