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A youtuber shows a day in life of a Japanese Elementary School with only 8 students and 11 teachers. The school has about 20 rooms and had over 400 students in previous generations but is now virtually empty. There are about 11 million akiya, or abandoned homes, in rural Japan. Here we see a nearly abandoned school. The video shows happy students and teachers but you can also feel the sad decline. The school built for more capacity. The number of teachers should have been 20-30 and the number of students was and should be hundreds. All of the nearby...

While there are a variety of options for homeowners in foreclosure,many have chosen to cut their losses and abandon their property. The housing market has been improving across much of the nation. However, some cities still have a long recovery process ahead of them as the market deals with a glut of homes in foreclosure, which can often stay in the system for several years. Meanwhile, many of these remain vacant. In Wichita, Kansas, nearly half of homes in foreclosure were abandoned as of the first quarter of 2014. In six of the nationÂ’s most populous metro areas, at least...

The Motor City has a deal for you—classical homes with a starting price of just $1,000. The online auction for abandoned, but sturdy homes is the latest plan by city leaders to fight blight and boost property values as Detroit crawls its way out of bankruptcy. […] The city isn’t hiding the fact that nearly all of the homes up for auction will require a lot of work to repair. …

When Alberto Trigo moved into his wife’s Montgomery Village townhome over a decade ago, the block was full of occupied, well-kept homes. Now, he says, the street is plagued with several abandoned residences that have severely deteriorated. Trigo said he believes up to four properties on Coltfield Court, which is across the street from Watkins Mill Elementary, have been abandoned by their owners and left in disrepair. Chipped exterior paint, trash in the yards and other issues have him concerned that his own property value is sinking and that the neighborhood is losing its appeal to prospective buyers. “I cannot...

Bigfoot Living Among the Ruins of Detroit! DETROIT (Cryptozoology News) — A family claim they saw a strange ape-like creature Thursday afternoon coming out of the window of an abandoned house on the outskirts of the desolate city. C. Brown, his wife, and their two children said they were “driving around, looking to buy a new house”, when they allegedly witnessed the unidentified beast. “The economy has been devastating here man,” Brown explained. “One day, you are living in this beautiful city with over a million and a half working people, next day all you know is all is gone…crime...

"A Cincinnati man has been entering the homes of strangers in southwest Ohio and then claiming them as his own....Robert Carr, is currently in the Hamilton County Justice Center, where he’s being held on a $55,000 bond and facing six felony charges for breaking into three Hamilton County homes. ......

Mayor Dave Bing is trying to save Detroit by offering incentives to lure residents back to abandoned neighborhoods. One program offers $150,000 in housing renovation money and requiring only $1,000 down to police officers who are willing to relocate to the city. Another offers college graduates $2,500 to rent and $20,000 forgivable loan to buy properties. Potential home buyers can choose from plenty of cheap or free homes, especially in the blighted neighborhoods of Woodward Ave. and Brush Park.