Fifteen this season. One from last year.
The auction ended. Fifteen certificates this season, all new, all going into the tracker.
One line above them wasn’t from this season at all.
Same county I’ve worked before. Bought last year, just over $2,000. Still open, still unresolved, a full auction cycle later, sitting right above the fifteen I just won.
Everything about it said I should have a better idea by now. Nothing about it said when.
The longer it sits, the less it feels like waiting for a check and the more it feels like waiting for something else to become true.
That’s the part nobody tells you going in. Winning ends your part of the decision. It doesn’t tell you when the system will finish making its own.
A year doesn’t change that math. It just gives you more time to notice it hasn’t changed.
The fifteen new ones I logged and moved on. The one from last year I check first, every time. Not because it’s more likely to go wrong. Because I’ve had the longest to sit with not knowing.
Checked it again this morning.
Fifteen from this season.
One still from last year.
If you want to follow this path as it develops — I’ll write what I see.
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