[Swordmaker]

Do you have an urge to be a home owner? Here's your chance! For the cost of an iPhone 6+ or a 32GB iPad, you can be the proud owner of this fine manse in beautiful suburban Detroit. . . it just needs a little TLC and some paint, and it'll be ready to move in. Nestled among similar homes, it's a good starter home. . . if what you have in mind is starting a fire. — PING!

Apple Real-Estate iSwap Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[GeronL]

Who would want to live in Detroit?

[fieldmarshaldj]

*Detroit ping*

[House Atreides]

I feel sorry for the Austrian who was duped into buying this Detroit property. It’s pretty sad that he has to, in effect, do a near total write-off of his “investment”.

Perhaps he’s selling it for either one iPhone or six Android devices. JUST KIDDING for any of you who are non-Apple phone owners.

[bigbob]

Well, sounds like the market value of an iPhone 6 has been established

[detective]

Imagine you bought a nice home in a good, safe middle class neighborhood in Detroit in the 1960’s or early 1970’s.

You and your family live there. You work hard to keep up your home. You have a mortgage.

Then the neighborhood goes bad. Your home is broken into. Your kids aren't safe going to school. Your wife is threatened shopping for groceries.

You try to sell your home. It is worth nothing.

You can't pay off the mortgage and afford to buy a new home in a nice area. Your family is not safe where you live. The neighborhood gets worse every day. The stores close and are boarded up.

That actually happened to thousands of middle class families in Detroit.

If you want to feel sympathy, feel it for them. Not for some speculator living in Austria.