One Five Monopolisto Man Overcomes Some Challenges

We left our hero near gloating over his good fortune. But nothing works as one who gloats surmises. As of now our, hero is property rich and capital poor and Mr. Coffee is moving along with enough capital to make yet more purchases.

How could this have come about? Actually by a stroke of fairly good luck. Mr. Coffee had the chance to buy one each of the three most expensive properties. He bought the first two but was a few hundred shy of the asking price for the most expensive property of all. He auctioned it and our hero followed his rule and purchased it for slightly less than the asking price.

Our hero also managed to land on his third major service, which set him up to make a good amount whenever anyone availed themselves of his good offices.

Meanwhile Mr. Coffee, managed to purchase two out of three of the lesser properties, creating the one situation that could mean curtains for our hero. Improvements and knock out rents should be forced to pay.

In short the strategem is working but there is no guarantee that it will bring victory. B8ut the the denouement is not yet.

For Coffee, luck is his only hope. For Monopolisto Man, inducing Coffee to go broke is the name of the game.

Mr Coffee purchases yet another lesser property.  Monopolisto Man purchases the one next to block
loss of a whole cluster.. Our hero continues to have less cash than Coffee does. Monopolisto Man wonders if he can finish the day without going into hock. And, for that matter,  how he is going to win.

But within a move the die seems cast, or so our hero senses. By a stroke of luck, he manages to acquire his fourth major service by mortgaging a lesser property.  Having all four virtually guarantees a victory because of the high return on investment.

And MM's next moves feel like frosting on the cake. Mr. Coffee lands on his second expensive property in the first cluster. But he does not have the money to buy it so he auctions it. At which point Monopolisto Man mortgages every bit of property he has that is not a service. He has five services which he will only mortgage in extremis. But he frees up over $4 million in non-service property o pit against Coffee. And he forces Coffee to bid far over the asking price to create a pair of linked properties.

Our hero ends up with about five times the actual cash in the game. He does not care that all of his non-service properties are mortgaged, including the most expensive.The only way Coffee can win now is to own three in a property cluster and then to have the resources available to improve these properties until they can
exact enough payment to bankrupt our hero.

The contest is not over. But one set of actions has changed the tune. And the third day is not even complete.