Where the auction is: Q&A with surreal estate innovator Jerry Paffendorf
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Jerry Paffendorf is the co-founder of LOVELAND Technologies and one of the main people behind some of the Detroit's more outlandish, and sometimes controversial, projects. He and a small group of friends came up with inchvesting, a concept where anyone could buy an inch of land in Detroit for $1 and be part of a microhood.
He is also one of the driving forces behind the Imagination Station , a community project turning two blighted houses into art. The $50,000 campaign to build a Robocop statue in the shadow of the Michigan Central Station. That's Paffendorf, too. His newest projects is called WhyDontWeOwnThis.com , a tool that makes the morass of information from this month's Wayne County Tax Foreclosure Auction (13,000 properties mostly in Detroit) easily digestible thanks to an online mapping system. Each property entry provides vital information, such as property ID number, opening bid, condition of the property and a Google Street
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