SL Starter Ranch
Sold on April 26, 2021
from 4:00 PM to 4:00 PM UTC
Location
Smoky Lake, AB
Sale Size
1 Parcel, 319 ± Acres
Final
$880,000
Insolvency Sale: Hay, play or stay. Over 480 acres being sold in 2 parcels, just minutes from Smoky Lake, Alberta. Ideal for ranching and outdoor activities. The home parcel is established with bonus Surface Lease Revenue. The half section slopes well to the SE, fenced with impressive views over Gregory Lake. See Parcel Details for the Starting Bids.
Insolvency Sale: Hay, play or stay. Over 480 acres being sold in 2 parcels, just minutes from Smoky Lake, Alberta. Ideal for ranching and outdoor activities. The home parcel is established with bonus Surface Lease Revenue. The half section slopes well to the SE, fenced with impressive views over Gregory Lake. See Parcel Details for the Starting Bids.
Sale Details
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Sale Description
Insolvency Sale: 3 quarters near Smoky Lake, AB being sold in 2[https://clhbidstorage.blob.core.windows.net/documents/Auctions/e6886959-88af-450a-dbac-08d8e572e7f5/TinyMCEPictures/ff6f6aaa-aa85-45da-adea-512d527de7cd.jpg] parcels:
Parcel 1: This half section, 25 km NW of Smoky Lake AB, can be anything you want it to be. With good 4 wire perimeter and cross fencing, an afternoon spent checking fencelines and you would be ready to turn the cows out. Or, continue haying the land as the previous owner has been doing. With over 200 acres producing hay, this land is ready to go to work.
With a nice SE slope, and an old unserviced and fenced off yardsite in the southeast corner, this half-section offers the best of all worlds. Accessed by paved road, you could build your dream home, or park your RV for the summer, with civilization on one side and complete privacy for your livestock or wildlife watching on the other.
Gregory Lake to the east offers a sense of vastness to your view from the south, and provides lowland for water on the east side of the property. Surrounded by established farms and ranches, leasing the land to a neighbour is always an option, or make it your own home base.
[https://clhbidstorage.blob.core.windows.net/documents/Auctions/e6886959-88af-450a-dbac-08d8e572e7f5/TinyMCEPictures/3c6bb565-8151-4e76-9fe2-d54be1e4ce87.jpg]Parcel 2: Only 9 km SE of the town of Smoky Lake AB, this quarter-section offers lots of options. Move onto the established yard site, complete with a tin roofed house, built in 1960. The dwelling is recently upgraded with an unfinished, concrete floored basement, vinyl siding, and a wooden deck. A single detached garage, and an older metal roofed barn are accessed by a gravel driveway with parking pad. This property is reportedly serviced by natural gas, overhead power, a drilled well and a septic system. You can work from home while your cattle pasture on the fenced quarter section, or you can lease the pasture to your neighbours and watch their livestock graze from your kitchen window.
With Surface Lease Revenue of $2,100 per year to help with the payments, and only 1.5 hours from Edmonton, you could rent the pasture out and watch your land appreciate in value; with the added bonus that you could spend your weekends out of the city, in your country home.
Nearly half of the quarter section is already in pasture and more brush could be cleared, or leave it as is to shelter your cow/calf pairs as they put on pounds. Surrounded by established farms and ranches, this property would be the perfect spot to create your country home.
Please review the Purchase Agreement in the Parcel Details section to see the specifics of the offer.
‘SL Starter Ranch’ will be offered for sale by online electronic tender by CLHbid.com. Check the website for updates from time to time.
Viewing of Property: Registered bidders may view the property by contacting us by email at info@clhbid.com.
SLR Details: Parcel 2
SL Starter Ranch is being offered for sale via online escalating tender by CLHbid.com. Check the website for updates from time to time. The property may be viewed by interested registered bidders. Please contact us by email at info@clhbid.com for an appointment. As a law firm, CLHbid never discloses bidder's names to any party, including the Seller. Only the successful buyer's name is ever disclosed to the Seller as part of the closing process.
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Frequently Asked Questions
There are existing auction platforms out there such as the ‘Iowa Auction’ that stop bidding after all individual parcels have received high bids. Then for round #2 of the auction they allow past as well as new bidders to ‘up the ante’ by bidding on the entire farm or ranch with a reserve bid set at the aggregate price just bid on all individual parcels in round #1.
After seeking input from many farmers and ranchers, most told us they didn’t feel a platform such as this was fair to bidders on individual parcels who in many cases have went to a lot of work to get pre-approved for financing etc. Farmers and ranchers also indicated they didn’t think it is fair for a large player to ‘lay in the weeds’ and not bid until after the initial round of bidding. They also told us that it would not be fair to allow a larger player to acquire the entire farm or ranch for only a few dollars more than the aggregate of the prior individual bids. Hence the rationale for the ‘premium bid’ amount for the ‘en bloc’ parcel at the conclusion of the auction.
At CLHbid.com, you as bidder only need to be high on a certain number (generally less than 50%) of parcels in order to have a chance to acquire the entire farm or ranch, whereas at national Auction firms you generally have to be high on 100% of the parcels in order acquire the entire ranch or farm.
Bidders have no knowledge of the identity of other bidders. Likewise, the Seller during the sale is not privy to who may be bidding or how many parcels someone may be ‘high on’. At CLHbid.com we set out to create a platform for the selling or leasing of agricultural land that was honest, fully transparent and offered no opportunity for bids to be shopped by the Seller. This is especially important wherein the Seller has final approval.
At CLHbid.com we have put safeguards in place in our CLHbid.com contract with our Seller to ensure the Seller deals only with the high bidder at the conclusion of bidding. During the timed auction itself, all back-end information is locked down including who is bidding or who is registered to bid. At the conclusion of the bidding, the Seller is privy only to the name of the high bidder on each parcel.
The minimum increment for bidding is set prior to each specific sale in consultation with the Seller. The increments are set having regard to the FMV of the parcel being sold with more expensive parcels generally having larger increments.
We have all been to live auctions where a quarter of land worth $500,000.00 starts at $100,000.00. The parcel is then bid up in large increments initially with the increments gradually decreasing in size as the bidding approaches the end. At CLHbid.com, given our predetermined minimum increments, we try and speed up the process by starting the bidding at what we see as a reasonable number to start serious bidding at, yet a number still below FMV.
In addition, given the ‘en bloc’ final parcel bidding option offered at CLHbid.com, we require a floor number for each individual parcel in the unlikely event a specific parcel doesn’t receive a bid, yet at the conclusion an eligible bidder wishes to bid on the entire farm or ranch. In such a case, the Starting Bid becomes the value to be used for that Parcel not receiving a bid when determining aggregate bids. It is important to note the Starting Bid is not a Reserve Bid.
PLEASE NOTE: Not all CLHbid.com sales have an ‘en bloc’. Please review the particulars of each sale for clarity.
No. The Seller waives their right to approve the sale if there is a bid on the ‘en bloc’.
This is really no different than in the tendering process wherein Tenders stipulate “any and all tenders will not necessarily be accepted”. One issue with tendering is the cost to put a tender in the paper is nominal and there is always a risk of the Seller perhaps just feeling out the market or wanting to know the names of the parties interested.
At CLHbid.com one of the paramount reasons for allowing the Seller final say is to alleviate the need for an expensive Guarantee to the auction house – expensive and seldom called upon yet often required by the Sellers bank. The Seller’s bank doesn’t require the Seller to purchase a Guarantee when using the CLHbid.com platform wherein the sale is at the Seller’s discretion.
CLHbid.com incurs significant marketing costs in the event the Seller fails to accept the high bid(s). The Seller is under contract with CLHbid.com and the contract references trigger values indicating when the right of the Seller to refuse a sale is taken away.
At CLHbid.com, our Sellers are fully invested in the process meaning the likelihood of a high bid not being accepted is extremely remote.
No. At CLHbid.com there is no advantage to waiting to bid. Our platform has a ‘refresh’ function on the clock such that any bid placed near the expiration of the timed sale will automatically re-set the clock adding additional minutes to the clock giving all parties (including the bidder that was just outbid) another opportunity to bid.
At CLHbid.com we take the human element out of the process. During the bidding process if you are high, you will receive an online notice saying you are High Bid. If you get outbid you will receive an online notice saying you were Outbid. Immediately upon expiration of the timed sale, the high bidder will receive an email indicating they were the HIGHEST BIDDER.
All emails are auto generated. The question cannot arise as to whether you were high or not or “was it shopped to someone they liked better” such as when tendering land.
No. The Starting Bid is just that. The first bid required for a Parcel is the Starting Bid and not some number above it. If you are the initial bidder and just bid the basic minimum increment your Current Bid will be the Starting Bid number.
CLHbid.com doesn’t publish the name of the high bidder. We do, however, disclose the name of the high bidder to the Seller as they are then in a contractual agreement to buy and sell. We leave it up to the high bidder and Seller to tell whomever they wish.
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