Bidders on home draw straws to break deadlock
By Don Dodson
Friday February 22, 2008
Robert K. O'Daniell
Tammy Brandt, left, pulls a straw from the straws held by Andrea Poling in the Prudential Landmark office in Champaign on Thursday morning. Brandt was one of two buyers that submitted identical bids for a house repossessed by HUD. Brandt pulled the short straw and the house will go to the other bidder.
CHAMPAIGN – It was a draw.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development foreclosed on a house in Tuscola, and two prospective buyers submitted identical bids for it.
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