A man bid $5,000 on a vacant lot in Ohio. He accidentally bought a whole street.

A man bid $5,000 on a vacant lot in Ohio. He accidentally bought a whole street.

Jason Fauntleroy went to a sheriff’s auction in 2021 to do something fairly ordinary: buy a cheap piece of land where he could eventually build a home. He placed a $5,000 bid on what he understood to be a vacant lot in Trenton, Ohio, a small city north of Cincinnati, and won. Then the paperwork arrived, informing him that he was now the owner of an entire street. As WCPO-TV reported, the parcel Fauntleroy had actually bought was Bloomfield Court…