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2014-11-08 Economy

At $188, is this America's cheapest house?

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Posted by Fred 2014-11-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Is a house for sale for $188 even imaginable to most Americans? It might be when one around the corner is on the market for $210.

It is to me, well at least the doorbell works in the house for $210.

Posted by Spanky Thuth2245 2014-11-08 08:28|| 2014-11-08 08:28|| Front Page Top

#2 With 5% down and 30 year mortgage the payment is about equal to the stamp on the envelope. But add in taxes and security measures then the cost skyrockets.

Posted by Airandee 2014-11-08 09:14|| 2014-11-08 09:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Oh, a garden, huh. Yeah, gardens still spring up from the ground, no work at all.

Sounds like a great neighborhood. I'd have one rifleman for every 3-4 gardeners, increasing as produce comes into fruition. When produce becomes harvestable, overnights in the pill boxes will be necessary, with noise traps and flares if available.

This is just for the ferel dogs and hogs.

It can take generations for good farmland, gotta get all those clumps of glass and concrete and trash out of the soil so a plow can work easily, and the security to not get jumped or hunted when bent over pulling stuff out of the ground.

Gardens.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-11-08 09:41|| 2014-11-08 09:41|| Front Page Top

#4 at least the doorbell works in the house for $210.

Probably not. I'd bet neither house has a scrap of copper inside, plumbing or wire. I've been to Flint with a brother-in-law who was working to set up community gardens. A lot of abandoned, boarded-up homes, often with a scrawled sign saying No Copper to reduce further scavenger damage.

There is already quite a bit of empty space, but as mentioned it needs major work since some of it has been vacant for years. Just cutting through years of grass and weeds to get at the dirt takes a tractor.

Posted by SteveS 2014-11-08 11:08|| 2014-11-08 11:08|| Front Page Top

#5 Lets see, I'll buy Tennessee Avenue and St. James Place for a total of $360.... With prices like these we can play Monopoly for real.

Posted by Neville Brown5379 2014-11-08 11:08|| 2014-11-08 11:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Better to get Illinois go to jail, do your time and take a shot at Kentucky, and use the jail time as you alibi for the missing $20s from the bank. Nobody thinks to count the $20s anymore.

Posted by Shipman 2014-11-08 12:27|| 2014-11-08 12:27|| Front Page Top

#7 The Landlord's Game

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2014-11-08 16:55|| 2014-11-08 16:55|| Front Page Top

#8 $188 is still too expensive in some neighborhoods when this sort of thing can happen:

Detroit – — A likely gas explosion Friday on the city's southwest side damaged at least eight homes and sparked a blaze that spread to seven others, destroying them, officials said.

Joseph Slate said he was sitting on the porch of his home not far from the scene near Oakdale and Vernor Highway about 4 p.m. Friday when he heard a blast.

"I was dizzy, stunned," said Slate, who saw a man emerge from the rubble of the house, which was abandoned, and leave. He believes the man was scrapping.

"He got away," Slate said. "(The fire) caught all the houses up. ... That's putting children and people at risk. All for a $10 pipe?"

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-11-08 19:15|| 2014-11-08 19:15|| Front Page Top

#9 There's one on Pennsylvania Avenue that's worth less.

Posted by gorb 2014-11-08 23:23|| 2014-11-08 23:23|| Front Page Top

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