Housing...

[pyat]

Attention, Slans!

Detroit has the affordable housing you need to start a Slan Commune, independent nation, religious compound, or slum!


$10 will buy you a cute bungalow..


$200 gets you this handsome 1650 square foot brick home with recent carpet and paint!

At the time I am posting this, there are 944 houses in Detroit for sale costing less than $5000. A significant number of those are under $1000.

Comments

[kianir.livejournal.com]

Fabulous prices all.

Unfortunately, they're cheap for good reasons:
- No jobs
- No schools
- Fascinating neighbors
- Fascinating people living and working in nearby abandoned structures
- Still paying property tax on what the city thinks it's worth
- Still have to insure the place, and your vehicle, both of which have obscenely high premiums in the city.

I do have dreams about winning the lottery and scooping up huge square blocks of Detroit prairie (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=42.376673,-82.944331&spn=0.001831,0.004828&t=h&z=18), though, and making a little homestead.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Google Street View doesn't go there. But you can set down on a neighbourhing street and watch the sun set over the empty lots. :)