You are offering X product to the public with Y terms. 

They started with a butters then moved to public offers, no auction just a newspaper posting saying provide highest bid by this date.  

I may have to see a public adjuster about the furnace.

@Nicholas Amendolare, I don't think you realize that you posted this to a public community page, so BP may or may not actually respond to you in an official capacity.

We should focus on better solutions for providing rent relief to Californians than this initiative, including increasing tax credits for renters, passing new bonds to provide public funding for affordable housing construction, and requiring developers and cities to build more affordable housing across the state.Proposition 10 is the wrong solution for a state that desperately needs to create more affordable housing for middle class families.

If you want to know how the development is progressing you need to look into the public records and follow the local planning commission. 

You can come in up to 4 units with as little as 3% down.Also, since you're a public service employee, there may be special programs for you from the city/county that you live in.

I have been working for a few years (started at a Big 4 public accounting firm) and have now recently transitioned into the private sector.

When you post on a public forum, you are asking for public opinion.

I think because of that publicity, it makes it a place people want to live and a place investors want to invest.