Bid placed on Eminem's Detroit home

[croatia]

http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/detr ... _home.html

DETROIT, MI - A 28-year-old Tennessee woman and avid Eminem fan made the first step Monday morning toward her dream of potentially owning a piece of Detroit hip hop history on the city's east side.

After reading several MLive stories about Slim Shady's former home at 19946 Dresden, Shelly Hazlett of Clarksville, Tenn. claimed she pulled the trigger and put an initial $100 bid on the blighted 767-square-foot home.

"A lot of people think it's insane," Hazlett said. "But I'm so excited. I can, however, see why nobody wanted to do it because you have to send in a lot of stuff.

"It’s not like, 'Hey! I want to buy this house.' It's not as easy as that."

An image of this Detroit home is featured on the cover of Eminem's new "Marshall Mathers LP 2" album that will be released Tuesday.

The Michigan Land Bank owns the 1945 bungalow-style home and is expected, according to Hazlett, to notify her whether or not she won the bid within five days.

No Michigan Land Bank officials, however, were willing to confirm or deny by noon Monday whether or not a bid or multiple bids on the property have been made. Messages left with Mario Morrow, a state spokesperson, weren't immediately returned.

A woman who answered the phone at the Michigan Land Bank in Lansing said the office hasn't completed any applications for purchase of the property and mentioned the selling process for the property being "on hold" because of the blighted neighborhood it's in.

Hazlett said she's agreed to pay a $35 processing fee for the property and put down a $500 deposit - if the State of Michigan accepts her bid. Hazlett also said she's in the process of submitting required information about the city and county taxes she currently pays in Tennessee, an itemized budget for the Detroit home and proof she can fund a plan to buy and rehab it.

Wayne County Treasurer's office's automated delinquent property tax hotline claimed Monday that this Dresden home didn't owe the county any money or have any liens on it.

The ultimate goal for Hazlett and her 47-year-old husband David is to turn the home into an Eminem museum with the exact or near exact specifications of the home's layout and condition when the rapper lived there in the early to mid-90s.

"I don’t know how well that would go over since it’s a not a multi-million dollar mansion," Hazlett said. "But I think it would be awesome. I don’t understand why Eminem doesn’t buy it. He must still drive by the house from time to time.

"How awesome would it be if you’re fixing up the house and he drives by?"

Shelly Hazlett said she and her husband want to eventually move to Detroit are looking to buy another home for themselves.

They fell in love with Detroit during a 2010 visit for the Eminem/Jay Z concert at Comerica Park.

"I don't like cold weather, but I love Detroit," she said. "I think it's an amazing city - from where it came from, the Motor City history, everything. Just driving through the city (for the concert), I just thought it was an amazing city with incredible potential."

If the Hazlett's win the bid for Eminem's childhood home, they first want to secure and winterize it, start fixing it up this spring, and make it museum ready by the end of 2014.

Shelly Hazlett said she's not focussed on buying Eminem's old home to make money; she claims to be just an avid Slim Shady aficionado who can relate to the rapper's issues with addiction and his recovery process.

"Most rappers rap about stupid stuff, but Eminem is real," said Hazlett, who has been free of alcohol and drugs for five years. "He raps about his life."

Hazlett added she's not sure if she'd even charge admission to an Eminem museum and is eager to place bids on vacant homes on either side of the property.

There appears to be plenty of homes to choose from based my visit to this eastside neighborhood late last week. This area between 8 Mile and 7 Mile roads, based on my count, has at least 70 vacant homes on Dresden.

"I want to do my part to help put Detroit back on the map," she said.

[slimsoxshady]

i'm gonna beat her bid

[cryonseris]

If I legally could, I would definitely put in a bid.

[LEVITIKUZ]

I got 12 bucks in my pocket. Is that enough?

[Jimmy Conway]

Koolo will probably buy it and have an orgy with all the studio leak worshipers in it and then burn it down because not enough people answered his "Do you like me buying this house" poll.

[mdemaz]

Fucking crazy bitch.

[cryonseris]

Koolo will probably buy it and have an orgy with all the studio leak worshipers in it and then burn it down because not enough people answered his "Do you like me buying this house" poll.

[kkaniff]

Jimmy Conway with the win once again.

[OneOneSix]

Koolo will probably buy it and have an orgy with all the studio leak worshipers in it and then burn it down because not enough people answered his "Do you like me buying this house" poll.

Thank you. I needed a good laugh today.

GOAT post

[2PointOBoy]

Bidder want to get home "one way or another":
http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/detr ... en_ho.html

Edit: House to be demolished...?

http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/detr ... ate_t.html