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Posted on 05/17/2021 5:30:01 AM PDT by mylife
Visiting a ghost town is one of the closest things we have to time travel. If left undisturbed, the town remains suspended in time; perpetually stuck in the year it was abandoned. Fortunately, some ghost towns have been incorporated into state and national parks, which tend to leave them in their state of natural ruin—the most famous example being the former gold mining town of Bodie, California.
But there are at least 3,800 ghost towns located throughout the United States (in a variety of conditions), and on occasion, entire towns are up for sale. While owning your own ghost town may sound great in theory, in practice, it could be a very different story (depending on what you want to do with the abandoned property and structures).
Before even getting to that part, you have to go through the process of purchasing the ghost town—which, it turns out, is a little different than buying your average not-abandoned home. Here’s what to keep in mind if you’re in the market for a ghost town to call your own, courtesy of an article by Joe Pye on Debt.com.
READ MORE The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide To Kid Culture: Is Elon Musk Funny? 35 Movies That Made Public Domain Characters Cool Again What to Look for During Your Final Walk-Through Before Closing on a House It’s more than just a house Attention-grabbing headlines on ghost towns being sold at what appear to be shockingly reasonable prices may give the impression that as long as you have the cash, you could be the proud owner of your own abandoned mining village relatively easily.
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Or is that St. Elmo, Colorado?
I want to buy a ghost town in Japan.
There are thousands all over the countryside and up in the mountains. The rice patties only need a little care to get them going again and you have 10-15 houses in different statuses of disrepair to choose from.
the pic is st elmo
There are quite a few of them in PA. Trouble is, you’re accountable to some local or regional govt which will be on you like ants. Fix this, fix that. Spend a fortune doing it. Liability issues keep you awake all night. Insurance is a nightmare. And if you get all that addressed, environmental issues crop up. Eventually you will find you can’t please everyone, they’ve more pockets than you have dollars.
If it’s worth saving/restoring, it’s probably on the radar of some historical society anyway. And they’re worse than HOA’s.
Cheaper by far to buy some vacant land and build your own ghost town.
japan is a beautiful country
I understand
Fun fantasy, but unless you have the funds and self contained resources, it is only a dream.
Abandoned Titan missal bases are more my cup of tea.
St. Elmo is cool I’ve been there several times. Hard to get to. Part of it burned down a few years ago.
“St. Elmo, Colorado?”
It is, unless the rockies have moved to Texas.
I’m an bit of an super isolationist type, I could probably handle it.
I have seen a photo book of old Japanese farm houses, all wooden very neat, small but cool. If you had those many houses you could deconstruct a couple and build a nice place.
I heard of a few some co-irker visited on a mountain trip in Colorado. That is something I could handle.
YOOPER Michigan has some
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