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anyone know whats going on with the house with the "auction sign" on it on Whitby shores greenway>??how does that work?

Which address on WSG is it?

I would guess that the owner defaulted on the mortgage and the lender is putting it up for auction (unlikely - they would probably just list it with an agent), or that the owner or occupant is no longer there and it's a "contents" auction to clean it out before the house is sold.

ahhh....its a nice smaller house just south on WSG after the stop sign at Bayside gate. If any one finds the price of it let me know pls?cant find it anywhere

I work for a bank (won't mention which one).  I can't speak for all banks but we don't auction houses when the client defaults. As vrehorst said they're assigned to a real estate firm to process the sale.  I would suspect this is either the town (didn't pay their property taxes) or maybe an estate sale.  It's also possible the owner is trying something different to make some money.

Its a realestate gimmik to get more interest in the property. That agent sold my first house in Ajax several years ago and advertised it the same way. Nothing special or funny about it. The buying/selling procedure is the same. Make an offer, barter back & forth, agree on a price, get the home inspection, barter some more, close the deal.

daaaaaaaaang! Sounds like Disco Stu's house.

Gotta love the seafoam green family room. But the kitchen looks nice & open

I love how no matter the state of a property, real estate agents will try and say anything to make it seem, at least to some buyers, that it's better than it really is. The blurb about it on the website says "This House Show's A '10' ...."

Hahahahahaha! I'm sure it's a fine enough house but it's one of the lesser curb appealing houses in the neighbourhood (no landscaping to speak of) and any house with seafoam walls and salmon carpets can't possibly be a '10' in most people's books. I just found that humourous and had to share ;o)

They sure are a creative bunch sometimes, aren't they? I will never forget that when we bought our house the listing said "professionally landscaped front and back yard" and "backyard shed".

Well, the "shed" was really a storage bin - IMO it's not a shed unless you can stand up inside it. And we viewed the house in January and with a metre of snow covering everyone's lawns it was hard to see the "landscaping". When spring came and we took possession we realized that "landscaped" meant half the front lawn was dug up and random shrubs, flowers, and other plants were planted haphazardly everywhere, and the entire thing had a border of bricks which had obviously been left behind or pilfered from the builder.