<p><pre><code>  However, the tone here is a little patronising if another bidder was just trying to get enough to cover the rent.
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Didn&#x27;t seem the slightest patronizing to me. Brendan just seemed delighted that he could help out. I love that.<p>More important, any bidder in any circumstance can be outbid by someone else and lose rent money in the process, right? To dictate any other outcome would require a depth of knowledge about the market and its bidders that no one party could possibly acquire reliably.