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Woman Buys Michigan Home For $1.75 On eBay
Buyer Must Pay $850 In Back Taxes
POSTED: 5:43 am PDT October 1, 2008
UPDATED: 6:07 am PDT October 1, 2008
With a winning bid of just $1.75, a Chicago woman is getting an abandoned home in Saginaw.The Saginaw Area News reported that 30-year-old Joanne Smith recently was the top bidder for the home during an auction on eBay.Her bid was one of eight for the home.
"I am going to try and sell it," she told the Saginaw Area News. "I don't have any plans to move to Saginaw. I don't have any plans of moving from (Chicago)."Smith said she hasn't seen the property or visited Saginaw. The newspaper said she also must pay about $850 in back taxes and cleanup costs.The fee is due by Tuesday, March 31, or the city will foreclose on the property."I was trying to go see it, but I am not going to make a 300-mile trip if I can't go in the house and see inside," Smith told the paper. "It could be haunted or something."
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