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theHandpuppet

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3. Totally agree

Reply to davidpdx (Reply #2)

Thu Aug 15, 2013, 09:04 AM

Aug 2013

Seems to me the people who are going to jump on this will be slumlords. I had hoped this would be more of an opportunity for people of limited incomes who really need housing.

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Gary, Indiana to sell its abandoned homes for $1 [View all] theHandpuppet Aug 2013 OP

What's the problem exboyfil Aug 2013 #1

That is way too high for one person davidpdx Aug 2013 #2

Totally agree theHandpuppet Aug 2013 #3

That's right. LuvNewcastle Aug 2013 #7

Proof that it CAN work theHandpuppet Aug 2013 #10

Sell them for a dollar to the poor FrodosPet Aug 2013 #13

So they're flat out saying they don't want any poor people in their city. hobbit709 Aug 2013 #4

Sure sounds that way to me theHandpuppet Aug 2013 #6

looks like onethatcares Aug 2013 #5

I'm so flashing on R. Dean Taylor about now: HardTimes99 Aug 2013 #8

I understand where the comments are coming from, but remember that owning a house is expensive. Xithras Aug 2013 #9

I agree Marrah_G Aug 2013 #11

My brother in law used to rehab and "flip" abandoned tax-sale homes. Xithras Aug 2013 #12

Five hundred One Percenters, paying a half million each FrodosPet Aug 2013 #14

Many (most?) of these houses have been stripped of anything that could be sold SoCalDem Aug 2013 #16

Might help to actually read the article nobodyspecial Aug 2013 #15