I just stood in awe of the people that showed up.

Not because they were anything special, but because after the auction started, these people were going wayyyyyy beyond anything even reasonable for even market price, much more what you'd think you would score at an auction.  

2 acres - $18,000.

27 acres of inaccessible property - literally there is no legal way to access it - 60 grand. 

Properties with junk houses are uninhabitable - 10, 15, and more thousand. 

People buying up empty lots for ridiculous amounts of money.  I waited until all the properties I was interested in were bidded on way too far for anything I would even consider buying and left.  

No, I'm not disappointed, more properties will come next time. And the time after that.  It was just a slew of people with money-lined pockets getting into bidding wars.  I do wonder if they will regret any of it after they find out that what they bought? Was nothing worth near that much money. 

One house that was burned down sold for over 10k, I can't remember how much, but it's worthless.  The property is definitely not worth that much money,. lol. I did warn the man next to me about the 27 acres - you can't access that property, dude and the person that owns it tried for a year to sell it.  He stopped bidding on it. I don't usually warn people but this dude was standing right next to me.

So, I ended up leaving there empty handed. Yes, I could have bid way up, but why?  Here's what's going to happen, these properties will end up going for sale it ridiculous amounts of money and they will sit there forever.  No one will buy them and I will laugh at them.  

I came home after that, sat around talking with Taylor and waiting for the rain to stop.  When it did finally stop, I took the boys with me - get them out of mama's hair for a bit - and went to search out this 22 acre property. They were determined to go hiking, I described it as an adventure, but not all of it would be fun.  I knew that because this entire region is vexed with thorn vines that are not pleasant to get stuck inot your skin.  

I was as patient as I can be with a 4 and 6 year old, tho the 4 year old was definitely not liking some of it.  He didn't hate all of it, but when we got down the grade and into the thick of everything, well I was helping him quite a bit.  Not that that matters, but he was hollering and whining alot.  We got in there as far as I determined I could go with these boys and decided it was time to head out of there. The brush was only getting thicker.

I likely won't even take my dogs in that this stuff, they will get cut up pretty good plowing their way through it. 

After looking at the 2 videos I made, I determined that I need a body cam to take decent video of everything in front of me. It's too hard to try and make your way through all of that stuff and try to keep the camera - Iphone - in a position to get a good view. Neither video was all that great in those terms.  

I mean, if I'm going to take videos I don't want the view to be terrible and annoy the viewer.  I've seen enough videos of incidents and terrible views, a body cam is affixed and isn't subjected to moving of the hand that is holding the camera.  They're kind of pricey, but it's a hobby and hobbies you spend money on.  

So that's that.  I don't consider the auction a waste of time - it just depends on who shows up and some of these people knew each other - they weren't at any previous auctions, I remember the faces of the people that are doing a lot of bidding. The rich dude showed up, he was bidding up lots of properties including the 2 acres I wanted.  I went up to 8 grand and quit. The property ended up going for 18 grand, they can have it, it's simply not worth that much money.  Not to me anyway.  

Other acreage out in the middle of nowhere also got bidded way up.  I was in awe of how much money these people were willing to pay for this stuff. Do they know something I don't? Overpriced properties simply don't sell,, I could link just one of the realtors sites loaded with auction properties that no one is buying.  

Okay, so the property I was looking at today with the boys? That driveway, starting at the road, is around 900 feet long.  I could do something with that property just from the driveway alone and save the rear of the property for a later date.  If it's even accessible.