The 1 Percent Is Buying Up All Of The Low End Real Estate

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37. Property taxes are on assess values, not actual prices.

The house was only $5,000. But as it is in a nice suburb of Chicago, its assessed value is in the hundreds of thousands.

I am doing well. But not well enough to pay a million dollars for a home primarily just to get the guy out of my basement.

His best friend and I have finally gotten him trying to do something. Specifically, we got him to apply for SSI. I'm no doctor, but he is defnitely not the same guy I used to know. I've had friends and family endure long term unemployment before. I've seen how it saps the life out of them.

But this is different. He seems incapable of sustaining anything for more than a day at most. He even keeps failing to renew his food stamps which only takes a few minutes each month. I got him into counseling once. Never made it back a second time. He needs help, and I'm not the right person.