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going to give it away” Bernice said, though she and her husband of 52 years, her business partner of more than 30 years haven’t yet established a reserve price.
“I know this sounds a little strange in this day and age,” she said, “but if a young couple with children wanted to buy this place, and they could swing anywhere in a reasonable ballpark [to the asking price], we’d bend over backwards to make it work. We have said we’d finance it in order to make it possible.”
There is an open house Thursday, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Other than that, potential buyers of the home and acreage need to come to the auction prepared.
“They will have to have a $20,000 certified check or letter of intent from a bank, or a pre-approved card from one of us,” in order to make a lastminute tour and assessment on Saturday, Bernice noted.
“This property doesn’t owe us one penny. We have loved every minute of being here. It financed Carry-On Trailer,” their son’s extremely successful business, which now has plants in about a half-dozen states and has, for the past seven years, been named the largest and most successful in the industry, “it financed Pearson Auction, it sent three kids to college. What else could you ask for?”
Bernice launched the auctioneering career that helped make all that possible at the relatively advanced age of 42. She was, without a doubt, the
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