A San Francisco couple thought they got a deal of a lifetime when they placed a bid on a property right next to their home. They bid $25,000 on a roughly $1 million home at a tax collector’s auction and won. They didn’t realize what they actually bought was a dirt alley.
JJ Hollingsworth and her husband were not the proud owners of an alley behind their home. They thought they were buying the duplex next door, but it just ended up being the strip of dirt between the two homes.
They had been trying to get the city to rescind the deal and get their money back with no luck. Then she heard from a potential buyer…