DIBS!
Posted on 02/16/2011 12:34:51 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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.
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Why these 100 in particular? Detroit probably has 10,000 abandoned houses.
Mayor Bling.
I’ll take one if they deliver to Louisiana!
It’s a crying shame what liberals have done to this city via unions and taxes and plain stupidity. Some of these were, at one time, grand and beautiful homes! Now they’re boarded up crack houses. Now the SOB’s have to pay people to take them?! And then LIVE there?! Not a chance in hell.
Interesting business model when coupled with high property taxes.
DIBS!
You’re right, the prop taxes are considerable in MI.
Who in their right mind would get involved in something like this? These should be torn down.
Looks like everyone of them needs to be “Blowed Up!”
It wouldn’t matter what shape house they gave you. If you are not allowed to arm yourself and protect your property, you are a fool for living in any one of these whether you could fix it up or not. The fact that someone is even living there invites violent crime.
It’s what the people of Detroit have done, but I guess nearly everyone there is a liberal, at least 98 percent. People in MI don’t mind what has happened to their principal city, do they?
They wrote their own reputations and States like NY, California and NJ are right behind them following the same “business model” to disaster!
The failed States are horrible!
I’ve never been to Detroit, but I’ve heard about the abandoned houses. I looked at the photos, and some appear to be mansions. It’s a sad state of affairs when a city like this is in the U.S.
The shame of it all is that some of these houses are architecturally outstanding and may have been real, showplaces in their heyday. Its a damn shame what’s happened to them.
Salvage the brick, they would be worth more.
Is it cash and carry?
“I’ll take one if they deliver to Louisiana!”
I doubt you would. They’re not worth the gasoline it would take to burn them.
It’s tragic, some of those houses were fine homes at one time.
This one has lovely landscaping. A coat of paint would make it like new.
Cut them up and have them ship it to Alaska, building hardware is expensive up here!
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