This past week, the Town of Richfield did something I consider to be rather unusual. The town owns some land on Bark Lake, and has decided to sell it. Instead of doing a typical sale via realtor or public auction, they chose to list the
properties on E-Bay. I’m not sure why I think that’s so unusual, especially given the popularity of E-Bay these days. It just seems odd that a government office would be selling something on E-Bay to me!
So anyway, here’s the scoop…the town bought the parcels a few years back to provide public access to Bark Lake. The Wisconsin DNR has now told the town that they will be installing a public access site on the lake in 2009, which somewhat makes the Richfield site unnecessary. They have divided the site into two parcels, each 10 feet wide by 20 feet long. Quite small actually, but big enough for someone to install a pier and have lake access. As of this posting, the bids are up well over $6,000 for each site. Now I’m no real estate expert, but a 10 foot by 20 foot piece of land on Bark Lake doesn’t seem worth nearly that much money to me. It’ll be interesting to see what the final selling price comes in at when the auction ends on Monday, October 8th.
And for any bidders that do not win the E-Bay auction, my homestead is on Bark Lake Drive. I have a pond, which is right across the street from the sites on the lake. So I’m thinking, if you’re willing to dish out an obnoxious amount of cash for a 10 by 20 foot piece of land, call me and we’ll work something out for some prime pond access!
May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it. ~Irish Blessing
