Going, going, still going: Detroit family home still for sale after 519 days despite

http://www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | july 30, 2013 | Anthony Bond

[crazyhorse691]

I don't expect that there is any salvage left in the house except a few hundred cockroaches and some broken meth pipes...and an incredible amount of trash.

[Carriage Hill]

That’s a great two-family “fixer-upper”, alright. NOT.

[cripplecreek]

Those taxes are largely the reason scrappers haven’t come in and solved the blight problem of Detroit.

There is a guy near me who does large scale salvage. He drools over some of the old red brick and copper roofs in Detroit. He checked into it and the city said he was welcome to them but he had to take possession of the properties and assume responsibility for the taxes.

[GeronL]

The taxes are probably brutal

[Carriage Hill]

2nd floor meth lab?

[GeronL]

You have to knock it down. The city cannot afford to do it.

[GenXteacher]

Much much more- as in a basement crack furnace and meth lab complete with chemicals.

[pennyfarmer]

The area is massive and I thought that offering metal detecting tours would be awesome. It would be a revenue stream the city could utilize. I would go on a trip like that for the opportunity to hunt abandoned yards, and if they leveled the homes it would be even better.

There are other issues with the idea but I think it would be workable.

There has to be lots of valuable coins and relics from the turn of the century buried there.

[PATRIOT1876]

It’s barely worth a dollar when you consider that your life is constantly in danger and you have to pay all the repair bills to get it into habitable shape.

It is no bargain at all if you have to pay any back taxes, utility bills, liens, etc.

[cripplecreek]

Interesting thought. I know various colleges around the state are constantly conducting archeological digs at Fort Wayne. There's some serious history buried under Detroit.

[freepertoo]

So sad. I was born in Detroit (although my family left in the early 60s).

[varyouga]

I’d buy that for a dolla

The garbage can in front is totally worth it...

[longtermmemmory]

People have not left detroit. People are REFUGEES from detroit.

Now with a cleansing bankruptcy, the few left should also evacuate.

With the bankruptcy, those back taxes could be negotiated.

I don’t think detroit can be saved. It has to be de-chartered and then chartered as New Detroit without all the liability OR pensions OR bonds.

[Tea Party Terrorist]

That’s why you should hire someone to conduct a TITLE SEARCH before you buy a property.

[PoloSec]

Someone will figure out how to make Detroit into an opportunity.

[baddog 219]

[Balding_Eagle]

It obviously was a beautiful house in it’s day.

All it took was Time, and Liberalism.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

I will bet it just reeks of urine and feces as does most of everything else in Detroit and that includes city hall. PASS

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Still a smart man.