In San Francisco, a couple accidentally bought a side street at a tax auction for $25,000 and later resold it for $26,000, CBS News reported. Homeowners JJ Hollingsworth and Alemayehu Mergia spent remorseful months after a sealed bid they won mistakenly gave them keys to a 83-foot-by-7-foot strip of land rather than the neighboring $1 million duplex. The recent private transaction concludes their exhausting bureaucratic ordeal with the city's tax collector's office.
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