All Forum Posts by: Benjamin Cowles

I'm taking preforeclosure leads from an online publication's public notice, checking them on the local CAD to make sure they're not under water and one I ran into says under the "last transaction" section:

"Sales disqualified as a result of examination of the deed:

Transfer to or from bankruptcy trustees, administrators, executors, guardians, personal representatives, or receivers" 

which I'm not sure what that means, but usually it's accompanied by like a $100 price tag, or something really low as if just to have a number in there but this one in particular has a $207,800 one from back in 2011. So I'm just trying to figure out what this could mean and just understand this info better. 

What is a bankruptcy transfer? Is that when they're trying to protect their property from seizure? 

And what would this $200k price have to do with anything?

A local online news publication I'm using for public notices conveniently lists pre-foreclosures by sale date. How far out from the present date should I start using these leads? What's the minimum time needed to acquire one of these about to be sold via auction? Thanks

 Yeah, every time I subscribe to a blog in here I get a confirmation of the subscription from wordpress, like it's middleman for managing BP subscriptions, maybe just to blogs. Idk. Not gonna look into lol. Got other things to do. If I can't updated on blogs oh well

It was a page I used to click through to subscribe to a blog from here, no questions asked. Now suddenly they're asking for my credentials and assuming whatever they were they must have gotten lost in my browser's last cache cleanup so I attempted to sign in using my email to find out I never had an account. Strange? So... Do I need an account to subscribe to blogs here? And how was I doing it before? And what is it as it's not a simple 'create a username and password and get started' process it didn't appear. 

 I don't know about "old" but so far the issues to be concerned with as far as I've found are whether the PO will care if they've been taken off of unused envelopes which stamp collectors apparently get a lot of their stamps from. I'm not sure how they determine if the stamps have been used or not but even if they have been "cancelled" but they had their gum removed from say removing them from an unused self-addressed envelope by hot water or one of various solvents, then taped, with the original envelope paper still intact on the back or glued, they might deem it re-used and send you to federal prison. I've just gleaned a few forums and gathered inconclusive info. The deep discounts will be with the stamps that are still attached to paper or removed with the gum also removed. I'm thinking it's legit so long as they haven't been used unless some post office has some strict guidelines or you bought "uncancelled" ones that were actually cancelled through some UV laser scan method I only just read a little something about rather than the obvious black ink stamp method. So google up on it. I just bought like $30 with for $10. Will have to remove them from the envelope paper tho. But I just started mailing anyway so not a huge initially work load. 

oohh... Okayee. I just realized I just entered into the underworld of black/grey postage market involving "uncancelled" and "gumless" stamps, where I've found these great discounts. Well they're selling em on ebay and unethical only if you believe the gov't ethicially taxes you with legitimate representation! Well that takes care of that...

 Sweet! Blood stamps. Lol. 

and I just want to point out to anyone reading, at least at the time that I'm writing this I've found stamps at half the price on eBay, basically because they either have no gum and/or they're of various values adding a bit too the labour labor involved in appropriating the correct account to each letter. Way with 50% discount in my opinion. 

Speaking of which, if anyone knows, I'll find out soon enough, can you hand the post office clerk a stack on stamps and your attack of letters and they'll treat your stamp stack like currency, make the trade then stick your stamps in a drawer and then like 'rubber' stamp the letters for you? Or would you still have to take your stamps and manually stamp each letter? Because that way unless you had the exact stamp combinations you'd inevitably lose some cents in the process. ...?

 Thanks Brionne. Done some shopping already and found indeed you can get them for .4 off eBay, maybe less. I guess the .3 figure you mentioned would be off craigslist where there's some risk involved. No risk no extra reward. Cool. Glad I asked. I'll never pay the standard rate, and all my letters will have that informal random aged stamp look lol. Which should give them a better touch

 Thank you brionne! Wouldn't have known unless I had asked!