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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CVJ who wrote (48901)	12/6/2002 7:28:46 AM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

That doesn't look a thing like me, and I don't like snow..like this. Who would pay that much for a house to live in Michigan??? Buyers back out of eBay bids for Eminem's former house STERLING HEIGHTS, Michigan - Will a serious bidder for Eminem (news - web sites)'s former home please stand up? The 450-square-meter (5,000-square-foot) colonial home with a swimming pool and Jacuzzi went on the Internet auction site eBay last month and drew an initial bid of US$600,000. Someone bid US$99.9 million but backed out of the deal, and the next-highest bidder probably will pull out, too, The Detroit News reported Tuesday. The first suitor told current owner Darren Martens that the bidding got out of hand. "He said he talked to his bank and they wouldn't let him borrow that much," Martens said. Eminem lived in the house from 1998-2000, but sold it for US$475,000 when kids started stealing his mailbox and leaving M&M candy wrappers on his lawn. Martens said he never took the US$99.9 million bid seriously. He said he's also writing off the next-highest bid of US$20 million. "We think we have some real bona fide offers at US$2 million," Martens said. Martens said he put the house up for auction "more or less for a joke" after he heard about another Eminem home that went up for bid on eBay. That house has drawn bids as high as US$11 million.