Russ Lenich's (napervilleruss) Blog

This is what I came to see, the rough and tumble world of a sheriff's foreclosure auction. Funny, the people sitting in the lobby around me didn't look like the old west, but then again, looks can be deceiving. The clerk (and not the sheriff), in her monotone voice, began reading off case numbers...

My curiosity was kindled by an office presentation by a fellow Realtor about his experience purchasing property at the county sheriff's foreclosure sales. So off to my first Sheriff's sale I go. I arrived about 15 minutes early and I was the first one there. The only indication I was in the right...