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Going, going, still going: Detroit family home still for sale after 519 days despite
http://www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | july 30, 2013 | Anthony Bond

Posted on 07/30/2013 2:47:33 PM PDT by lowbridge

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To: GOPsterinMA
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.
21 posted on 07/30/2013 3:07:16 PM PDT by crazyhorse691 (Obama is just the symptom of what is destroying the U.S.)
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To: SeekAndFind

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


22 posted on 07/30/2013 3:08:10 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (Guns kill people, pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk & spoons make you fat.)
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To: MeganC

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.


23 posted on 07/30/2013 3:08:37 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: SeekAndFind

The taxes are probably brutal


24 posted on 07/30/2013 3:09:37 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Billthedrill

2nd floor meth lab?


25 posted on 07/30/2013 3:09:39 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (Guns kill people, pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk & spoons make you fat.)
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To: Slyfox

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


26 posted on 07/30/2013 3:10:08 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: SeekAndFind

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


27 posted on 07/30/2013 3:11:28 PM PDT by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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To: cripplecreek

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.


28 posted on 07/30/2013 3:16:11 PM PDT by pennyfarmer (Your socialist beat our liberal AGAIN.)
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To: Tenacious 1

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.


29 posted on 07/30/2013 3:17:30 PM PDT by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are crimes committed by illegal aliens)
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To: pennyfarmer
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.

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30 posted on 07/30/2013 3:23:41 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: PATRIOT1876

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


31 posted on 07/30/2013 3:24:05 PM PDT by freepertoo
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To: Billthedrill

I’d buy that for a dolla

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


32 posted on 07/30/2013 3:25:33 PM PDT by varyouga
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To: Tenacious 1

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.


33 posted on 07/30/2013 3:30:36 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: MeganC

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


35 posted on 07/30/2013 3:34:56 PM PDT by Tea Party Terrorist (Those who work for a living are now outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
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To: lowbridge

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


36 posted on 07/30/2013 3:36:42 PM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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37 posted on 07/30/2013 3:44:41 PM PDT by baddog 219
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To: SeekAndFind

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

All it took was Time, and Liberalism.


38 posted on 07/30/2013 3:49:51 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (When America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: SeekAndFind

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


39 posted on 07/30/2013 3:52:42 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: MeganC

Still a smart man.


40 posted on 07/30/2013 3:53:46 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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