Posted on 07/03/2014 6:21:58 PM PDT by Lorianne
Check your pockets and dig into the couch cushions — if you can rustle up some spare change to the tune of $400,000, you could be the owner of your very own town in South Dakota. The man who owns Swett, S.D. — and its bar, single house, workshop, three trailers and 6.16 acres of land — is looking to sell.
Sure, $400,000 is a lot of money for anybody. But instead of just owning a single house, you could crown yourself Grand High Empress/Emperor of this unincorporated hamlet about two hours from Rapid City, reports the Rapid City Journal.
The sole owner of Swett — and one of its two inhabitants, along with his wife — is selling everything in order to focus on his traveling concession business.
“Like I say, I hate to get rid of it,” he said Benson, after listing the town last week. “If I don’t sell it, if I don’t sell it this first year, I would probably keep it.”
Swett used to have as many as 40 people but has now shrunk down to only two residents and handful of buildings. At least the bar sounds like it’s there to stay, as a meeting place for the locals.
“This place is pretty much where the highway ends and the Wild West begins,” joked one patron of the bar’s previous rough reputation, though now it’s not out of place for families to come there for a meal.
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The same $400,000 will buy you half of Detroit.
Yeah, but in Swett you have a chance of living to see the sun rise tomorrow.
Nice looking place.
Love the sunflowers.
It has a bar/restaurant too.
I bet it’s cold in winter though.
I bet you're absolutely right.
“Freeperville.”
But probably with no High speed internet.
Can I raise the local taxes on my subjects?
So are you WReepers?
Well, with a mortgage......
Or a cheaper option would be to get your country home granted a township.
First, you need subjects. Build a trailer park, and advertise, mostly to retirees with a little money to kick around. When younger folks come along, they'll need jobs so you create a little infrastructure and hopefully your tax base will grow. You own the land, have them build the structures. I don't know if they'll long tolerate you being king unless you're very kind to your subjects or you have good security.
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