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todd ellis · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 8:04 am Post subject: $750 Detroit House

crack dealers and hookers extra
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bobsouer · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 8:57 am Post subject:

Todd,

Planning to move to Detroit? How did you happen across that ad?
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todd ellis · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 9:19 am Post subject:

a friend sent me the link. we were talking about a radio story i heard last week - thousands of properties in detroit nobody wants to buy ... at ANY price.

oh, and ... no.
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bobsouer · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 9:22 am Post subject:

Todd,

Didn't think so. Laugh

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Deirdre · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 9:50 am Post subject:

My heart is breaking.

Poor Detroit.
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Sounds like a great place for non commuters. Let's all buy a property there and make one great big voice over community....it could be fun.

then again.......

todd ellis · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 10:08 am Post subject:

ya know greg - that is almost exactly what i was thinking this morning - not US per se, but this seems like a great opportunity for a group of like-minded folk to get together and re-hab the neighborhood ... maybe lots of neighborhoods. why wouldn't civic groups get together and buy $10k - $30k worth of property, find people with sweat equity to contribute and clean up the joint?
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Bruce · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 12:02 pm Post subject:

Holy crap. I thought it was a typo/joke kind of thing, but no! I looked at the agent's other listings and there are all kinds of houses, nice looking houses, going for prices like $15,000 or around $10 a square foot. How sad.

Indeed what an opportunity for someone, but one that no one will likely pursue anytime soon.

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audio'connell · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 12:14 pm Post subject:

I kid you not, I just bought a mic for that amount today (within the past hour!) and it included shipping.

My head is spinning just a bit at the comparison.
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Ed Gambill · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 12:52 pm Post subject:

If it weren't for the cold winters.
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bransom · DC Joined: 06 Nov 2008 Posts: 650 Location: St. Louis, MO

There may be typos in the ad as what's shown on the map isn't "one block north of Grosse Pointe" ... not even close. (One block north would be St. Clair Shores, not Detroit, and it's not that, either.)

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ShaniaJackson · Joined: 09 Feb 2009 Posts: 8 Location: Charlotte, NC

How depressing. How many US cities will be actual ghost towns in the years to come?
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