Subject: Making Sense of Detroit Foreclosure Auctions — Why Don’t We Own This?
This is the text of an email I’m sending out to some friends, contacts, and mailing lists. If you don’t get it in your inbox, consider it sent to you, too ♥:
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Dear Hopefully Interested People,
Round 1 of the 2011 Wayne County Tax Foreclosure Auction is in progress with the first set of bids closing tomorrow morning.
LOVELAND Technologies is doing its best to clearly show what Detroit properties get bid on and sold to whom in close to realtime at http://whydontweownthis.com/live .
We’ve also mapped out the 13,000+ Detroit properties up for auction at http://whydontweownthis.com with the ability to comment on and follow properties.
If you have a desire to bid on something but haven’t registered for the auction, you can try reaching out to http://landblank.tumblr.com .
NOTE: Sometime near the end of October the properties that don’t sell will be re-auctioned in Round 2 with an opening bid of $500 (the county is not publicly clear on details yet). It will be particularly interesting and important to provide these services around this dramatically lower opening bid, where just $10,000 can buy ***20*** properties. If ever there were a time for transparency and neighborhood involvement, this would be it.
We are currently providing all of this as an unpaid public service. If you’d like to write about it or sponsor it, please get in touch. We’re getting good, interested traffic to the site with great and thankful feedback.
LOVELAND is an open door if you have ideas for how to improve this service and grow it into the future. On our drawing board at present are things like
• Making it easier to converse about properties (there’s a commenting system but not a lot of conversation yet)
• A system to crowdfund un-purchased $500 properties and find them some love (in partnership with The Land Blank)
• A mobile location-aware version on your phone at wdwot.com (so you can clearly see what’s around you and easily visit properties)
• Better realtime dashboards for all auction activity
Please check it out and get in touch if you’re interested in talking or learning more. And by all means tweet it, book it, smoke signal, paper airplane, morse code, say it and pray it.
May you live in incheresting times. High fives to you and yours,
Jerry Paffendorf & Team LOVELAND
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