Buy a house in Detroit for a dollar

[GeezerMan]

Link

Buy a house in Detroit for a buck. Too bad someone can't figure out what type
of industry to bring to town. Lots of room to set up shop.



But, the city council is a problem
too.
Link

 

[halik]

No thanks, virtually all of those places will run you 5-6G on taxes alone. Plus take a look at google street view of the hood (literally)

 

[soccerballtux]

Halik would you mind linking?

 

[halik]

Originally posted by: soccerballtux
Halik would you mind linking?

Sure thing
Sample $100 house

the ghetto that it is in

Interwebs is slow, gimme a min to pull up the tax value for that one

edit:
Market Value: $53,438.00
Tax Amount: $2,618.21

Plus figure in back taxes and water bill (if you want them to turn it back on...)

 

[sandorski]

Wow. I think some people are going to make Big Bucks in Detroit. I seriously doubt it won't recover within 10 years.

 

[Zebo]

You'd have to pay me to take a house in Detroit. Safer in Baghdad or Kabul.

 

[soccerballtux]

Originally posted by: Zebo
You'd have to pay me to take a house in Detroit. Safer in Baghdad or Kabul.

Seriously?

 

[soccerballtux]

Originally posted by: halik

Originally posted by: soccerballtux
Halik would you mind linking?

Sure thing
Sample $100 house

the ghetto that it is in

Interwebs is slow, gimme a min to pull up the tax value for that one

edit:
Market Value: $53,438.00
Tax Amount: $2,618.21

Plus figure in back taxes and water bill (if you want them to turn it back on...)

Those are some pretty big houses!

Just down the road those houses look nice...I gotta say I'm tempted.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=...029783&z=16&iwloc=addr

 

[soccerballtux]

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[abaez]

Man, there is alot of greenery and with some work that block would look great. Too bad no one wants to live there.

 

[ranmaniac]

Kind of sad if not a bit creepy how Detroit isn't too far from the dystopia represented in the Robocop films. A quote from the movie now applies to Detroit real estate: "I'd buy that for a dollar!"

 

[JSt0rm]

we should do a anandtech group buy on like 3 square blocks.

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: halik

Originally posted by: soccerballtux
Halik would you mind linking?

Sure thing
Sample $100 house

the ghetto that it is in

Interwebs is slow, gimme a min to pull up the tax value for that one

edit:
Market Value: $53,438.00
Tax Amount: $2,618.21

Plus figure in back taxes and water bill (if you want them to turn it back on...)

Damn, looking at those pics I can literally smell paid-for sex and the odor of crack in the air.

Wow. I think some people are going to make Big Bucks in Detroit. I seriously doubt it won't recover within 10 years.

Detroit's population has, IIRC, gone down about 50% since its peak. The city is moribund, epically.

 

[Vette73]

Originally posted by: sandorski
Wow. I think some people are going to make Big Bucks in Detroit. I seriously doubt it won't recover within 10 years.

:laugh: Yea you don;t know much about Detroit history do you? How about this, you invest first and then you can laugh at us later... :evil:

 

[WhipperSnapper]

Originally posted by: sandorski
Wow. I think some people are going to make Big Bucks in Detroit. I seriously doubt it won't recover within 10 years.

I seriously doubt it will recover in our lifetimes. The suburbs around it might recover, but not the City of Detroit itself.

 

[Robor]

Originally posted by: halik

Originally posted by: soccerballtux
Halik would you mind linking?

Sure thing
Sample $100 house

the ghetto that it is in

Interwebs is slow, gimme a min to pull up the tax value for that one

edit:
Market Value: $53,438.00
Tax Amount: $2,618.21

Plus figure in back taxes and water bill (if you want them to turn it back on...)

Those brick houses look like they were nice at one time. Or maybe I'm just used to the boring ugly vinyl siding and stucco in FL?

 

[RichardE]

I love the city council link. Tell the whites to go home, than bitch when no industry comes to town. Fucking idiots.

(Not saying blacks don't have money to set up industry, but the council is just acting anti-business, no businessman black or white is going to save this town when the government is more or less being racist against an entire segment of potential customers/suppliers/business).

 

[ebaycj]

Originally posted by: JSt0rm01
we should do a anandtech group buy on like 3 square blocks.

That is very likely what will happen, if prices get cheap enough (they may be already).

 

[RichardE]

Originally posted by: ebaycj

Originally posted by: JSt0rm01
we should do a anandtech group buy on like 3 square blocks.

That is very likely what will happen, if prices get cheap enough (they may be already).

I got 5$ for it. We can make a new server farm that would rival google...

and become the new google...

 

[Robor]

Originally posted by: RichardE
I love the city council link. Tell the whites to go home, than bitch when no industry comes to town. Fucking idiots.

(Not saying blacks don't have money to set up industry, but the council is just acting anti-business, no businessman black or white is going to save this town when the government is more or less being racist against an entire segment of potential customers/suppliers/business).

I didn't notice the link to the council until you mentioned this. WTF!? How is open racism like that allowed in a public official? Can you imagine if this were reversed?

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: Robor

Originally posted by: RichardE
I love the city council link. Tell the whites to go home, than bitch when no industry comes to town. Fucking idiots.

(Not saying blacks don't have money to set up industry, but the council is just acting anti-business, no businessman black or white is going to save this town when the government is more or less being racist against an entire segment of potential customers/suppliers/business).

I didn't notice the link to the council until you mentioned this. WTF!? How is open racism like that allowed in a public official? Can you imagine if this were reversed?

Detroit is an epic sh*thole. Average selling price of a home has fallen to just under $6000 <- not a typo. I think median price (I am aware of the difference between average and median, but not sure if the articles I read these numbers in were) was $7500 in December. Detroit has to be one of the least desirable cities in the country now. It has been bad for a long time and it's just so much worse now.

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: Robor

Originally posted by: RichardE
I love the city council link. Tell the whites to go home, than bitch when no industry comes to town. Fucking idiots.

(Not saying blacks don't have money to set up industry, but the council is just acting anti-business, no businessman black or white is going to save this town when the government is more or less being racist against an entire segment of potential customers/suppliers/business).

I didn't notice the link to the council until you mentioned this. WTF!? How is open racism like that allowed in a public official? Can you imagine if this were reversed?

Detroit is an epic sh*thole. Average selling price of a home has fallen to just under $6000 <- not a typo. I think median price (I am aware of the difference between average and median, but not sure if the articles I read these numbers in were) was $7500 in December. Detroit has to be one of the least desirable cities in the country now. It has been bad for a long time and it's just so much worse now.

The Detroit City Council would be a perfect fit for a Central African Country Government like Zimbabwe or Rwanda

 

[Genx87]

Amazing how a city council can act like that and almost nobody says a word. Let them wallow in their own misery.

 

[jpeyton]

Taking a virtual tour of Detroit using Google Street View is addicting.

Found another cheapie!

 

[halik]

Originally posted by: RichardE
I love the city council link. Tell the whites to go home, than bitch when no industry comes to town. Fucking idiots.

(Not saying blacks don't have money to set up industry, but the council is just acting anti-business, no businessman black or white is going to save this town when the government is more or less being racist against an entire segment of potential customers/suppliers/business).

Oh I forgot to add, you can petition to have the taxable base reduced by the city. But the outcome of a white boy asking to have someone else's tax burden reduced is predictable...