On Friday, August 25, 2017 at 9:47:12 AM UTC-4, Nancy Young wrote:
> On 8/25/2017 6:29 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > On Thursday, August 24, 2017 at 6:50:23 PM UTC-4, wrote:
> >> On Thursday, August 24, 2017 at 4:15:35 PM UTC-5, notbob wrote:
> >>>
> >>> The avg price for a car is now about $33K-USD. You can buy a house
> >>> fer less! 8|
>
> >> Where can you buy a house for less than $33,000? I mean a house
> >> that is turn-key.
> >
> > Probably not even in Detroit.
>
> I actually wrote those very words and deleted them.

Yah, well, I was born in Detroit, so I'm allowed to
criticize it.

> I gather you can pick one up cheap from the city if you agree to
> renovate it. I think Detroit's coming back. Seems you can buy
> the adjacent lots for a song, plenty of empty ones where they
> razed the houses, I'd buy as many as I could.

You'd want to pick your neighborhood fairly carefully. There's
no point owning lots if the entire block they're on is razed
and never re-developed.

Cindy Hamilton