One Four Monopolisto Man Strikes for The First Time

As of this minute Monoplisto Man has more than half his stake and Mr. Coffee has less than half, being a bit ahead of MM in the buying department.

Another negative surfaces. The best properties are services. There are six in all. Our hero has two of them. But now he is joined by Mr. Coffee who snags one of the lesser ones.

The only encouraging thing is what our hero knows already. He will confine his purchases to the least expensive properties and hope that Mr. Coffee is stone broke and mortgaging very soon.

We shall see.

It happens that our hero picks up a humble dwelling while our enemy  picks up a place on the verge of arriving at the expensive triad I referred to.  Our hero has four places. Mr. Coffee has six. If he can be induced to purchase two or three expensive ones, he will become cash poor and vulnerable to stage two of our hero's stratagem which is to buy expensive properties at cut rates.

It is not long in coming. Monopolisto Man likes to advance without the need to do business. There are places where one one can be given, for example, the right to avoid  an onerous prison sentence. This right has a list price of $500. As it happens, this is just what takes place as our hero draws ever closer to Mister Coffee.

Even better than this recent good fortune is chance to directly deplete Coffee's coffers. Our hero has his first opportunity very soon. Both he and Coffee own of a property on either side of an available spot in the cluster just mentioned.

By a stroke of luck, our hero lands on this center property and immediately puts it up for auction. Why? Because to own two of three properties in a cluster is useless.  Only by owning an entire cluster can one  make improvements that enable income to grow on each piece of property far above the initial rent.

Coffee is flamboyant, Now Monopolisto Man. Coffee bids a few hundred over the actual mortgage value. Our hero bows in defeat. Coffee now owns two properties he can do nothing with. His capital is moving toward zero because very his next act is to purchase one of the first available expensive spots.

Monopolisto Man believes he has already delivered a patented blow that can mean a fortune in theoffing.