WhyDontWeOwnThis.com - LandBlank Non-Profit

[Islandman]

Interesting article in the News:

The site has a very user friendly interface [[interactive map). It also shows you who bought what at the last auction, along with addresses.

http://detnews.com/article/20111020/...d-ins+in+Wayne

[Lowell]

Another amazing project led by the intriguing and energetic Jerry Paffendorfer. A lot of people like to grumble about 'outsiders' but his projects are both entertaining and enlightening. WhyDontWeOwnThis.com

Paffendorf's name may sound familiar. The New Jersey transplant is founder of Loveland, the micro-real estate website selling Detroit real estate in 1-inch square "lots" at $1 each. He was the driving force behind the $50,000 Kickstarter crowd-funding of the RoboCop statue.

Paffendorf and Carter know a little about the foreclosure auction, having used it to purchase two vacant lots for their Loveland project.

The process was overwhelming, they said, but the tools they created to locate the lots for Loveland made property research much easier than anything offered by the county.

So, with programmer Larry Sheradon they devised an interactive map tool for identifying and assessing the city's available foreclosed properties.

That interactivity helped one city resident sidestep a potential auction disaster. A visitor to the site saw Michael Lee's metal finishing business on the auction list and posted a message about it. Paffendorf called Lee who said he was flabbergasted.

[darwinism]

Another amazing project led by the intriguing and energetic Jerry Paffendorfer. A lot of people like to grumble about 'outsiders' but his projects are both entertaining and enlightening. WhyDontWeOwnThis.com

We should all be very grateful that creatively smart individuals such as Jerry Paffendorf are making a difference building communities here in the City of Detroit.