Here is one of those “meaningful” pictures, the kind you find on blues album jackets. This is the road past my old place, which is now a ghost town. A-West and B-West, rather unique street names if you ask me. Oh, they were going to build condos everywhere, but now it sits. They could have let things be (the court was 80% occupied) and be further ahead than they are now.
Y’day I praised “The Derrick”, a small on-line newspaper owned by the Clarion people. That praise does not, however, extend to the staff over there, in particular a Marie Louge (rhymes with “rogue”). Thanks to her two-bit nosiness, they lost a customer. Hopefully, thanks to this blog, they will lose many more. The problem was entirely her own creation because she is an ignoramus. We do not give out private, personal information to strangers on the Internet, it is policy around here since day one.The rogue seems to have taken offense that we used the “required” name fields for our own advertising. Although there is no legal justification for it, she was insisting we use a “real name”. Don’t you just love her already? We paid using a valid credit card, but she wanted names—and there is only one reason for that: a hidden agenda. If you think somebody is breaking the law, old lady, you call the police, you don’t play vigilante with us. She is so stupid I don’t think she realized she was trying to pretext telemarketing information out of us. Clarion, fire that women, you don’t need her.
Have you heard of paid obituaries? It seems due to the recession many smaller newspapers are printing fewer issues per week and the word on deaths isn’t getting out. Don’t jump to conclusions, it was not the public or the deceased’s relatives complaining, but funeral parlors. You can figure out the connection on your own. If you can’t, you’re probably reading the wrong blog as well.
Anyone who coughs up the $100 can have an obituary played on local television several times per day. Optional are slide shows or videos. In view of my life’s accomplishments and the message I’ve got for the world, I think I’ll opt for the hand puppets. I’d considered stick figures but I want to be more entertaining than the people I grew up with. Subtle, or what?
Florida has become the first state to aggressively begin auctioning foreclosures on-line. No more unruly crowds at the courthouse. If you squint at the situation it is clear the move is designed to bring more than local buyers into the deal. Face it, well-monied locals had the market cornered and were dominating the sales, the rumor was the mob was in on it. The tactic emerges as a way to get more buyers into the game.
So you know, there are around 100,000 pending foreclosures, limited only by the inability of the courts to process more. There is a sign-up fee, around $60 beans and the system extends the time limit if the highest bid comes in less than a minute before closing. There’ll be no eBay type sniping here. I’ll attend the free seminar to learn the ropes. My bet of getting a place on Las Olas for $5,000 may be closer than we all thought. Of course, I want to honor my commitment here but that requires that others do the same. To the letter.
I might add that both Wallace and I agreed we did not buy this place for any other purpose than to share it (there was initially a plan to rent out his room when he was absent, but that never worked out). There was also an agreement that under no circumstances did we purchase this place to flip it for a profit, that during the period until my case was settled, we could only sell to each other for the price paid. After that, we split what profit is made, although I’m not interested in that.
Not everybody understands that in Florida you can be sued for selling at too high a price, even years later. And this state takes serious pains to protect the dolts who live here from speculators.
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