RE: I hear Detroit is cheap.
At one time you could get an abandoned house in Detroit
for $100 if you agreed to bring it up to code after a one year deadline.
Assuming you lived that long.
Detroit decline for 7 straight decades since the 1.86 million peak in 1950s. Now “immigration” has led to a small increase.
A whopping 1.1% upswing.
There are places near Detroit, like Clinton Twp., that are not bad. A family member bought a house for cheap there and redid it. The home is on a dirt road, so it is rather countrified.
We were in Detroit for a wedding last Saturday. GPS was NOT our friend. She sent us down some scary streets. One spot, like an old church, is okay, but a street over the buildings are all boarded up.