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

[saomigray.livejournal.com]

I noticed a good many are bank-owned and fire damaged. I had a boss one time who had lived somewhere in Detroit. The day she stepped over a dead prostitute on her doorstep was the day she decided to get her kids out of there.

I think she did something like borrow more than the house was worth and then default or something along those lines.

Ordinarily, I would say that was a dishonest and morally bankrupt thing to do. In her case, I didn't see any other way to get her kids out of the situation.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

*nods* That $200 house has been for sale for a couple of years. In her situation, I would be seriously tempted to just bolt the door and drive far away...

[saomigray.livejournal.com]

From Detroit to Alabama is pretty far. :D

It's tough to know what you'd do until you're up against a hopeless situation like this.