# Do car or home auctions offer good deals

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 29, 2005, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-car-or-home-auctions-offer-good-deals/314799 "2005-07-29T20:02:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-car-or-home-auctions-offer-good-deals/314799/1 "2005-07-29T20:02:29Z")

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In your experience do auctions for homes or cars offer better deals than you’d get with a more planned out purchase, or are they the same price but without the ability to do research ahead of time?

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**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-car-or-home-auctions-offer-good-deals/314799/2 "2005-07-29T22:15:58Z")

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I bought my house at auction. And yes, I knew going into I’d have to put a lot of money into my 150-year old farm house. But I got a 2300 sq ft farmhouse with 14 acres. The house has 10’ and 12’ ceilings and 4 fireplaces. It has white oak plank floors and beadboard ceilings and a 6’ X 25’ covered front porch with porch swing. The same family lived there the whole 156 until I bought it. And yes, it also has no central heat and air, no insulation, tin roof (which is sound) and a well. I got it for $60K. Land alone in my county usually goes for somewhere around $8-10K an acre. [Here’s](http://www.angelfire.com/ga3/DianneCameron2/stgermain.htm) my house.

StG