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From: Sean_Q_ on 25 Nov 2009 03:10 Let's all chip in and buy one of these 50 fix'r'uppers in Detroit for a Reeky HQ. (I really like the castle). http://www.robotnine.com/2009/10/abandoned-houses-of-detroit.html SQ
From: TOG on 25 Nov 2009 04:26 On 25 Nov, 08:10, Sean_Q_ <no.s...(a)no.spam> wrote: > Let's all chip in and buy one of these 50 fix'r'uppers in Detroit > for a Reeky HQ. (I really like the castle).http://www.robotnine.com/2009/10/abandoned-houses-of-detroit.html > That is so terribly, terribly sad, that site. Some of those old houses are/were wonderful. What a waste. Reminded me of Robert Frost's poem 'Directive'. http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/984/
From: 83LowRider on 25 Nov 2009 05:38 "Sean_Q_" wrote > Let's all chip in and buy one of these 50 fix'r'uppers in Detroit > for a Reeky HQ. (I really like the castle). > http://www.robotnine.com/2009/10/abandoned-houses-of-detroit.html > On the auction block in Detroit: almost 9,000 homes and lots in various states of abandonment and decay from the tidy owner-occupied to the burned-out shell claimed by squatters. Despite a minimum bid of $500, less than a fifth of the Detroit land was sold after four days. http://www.reuters.com/article/gc03/idUSTRE59O17F20091026
From: sleazy on 25 Nov 2009 07:19 On 2009-11-25 05:38:03 -0500, "83LowRider" <nohopenoch(a)nge.com> said: > > "Sean_Q_" wrote >> Let's all chip in and buy one of these 50 fix'r'uppers in Detroit >> for a Reeky HQ. (I really like the castle). >> http://www.robotnine.com/2009/10/abandoned-houses-of-detroit.html >> > > On the auction block in Detroit: almost 9,000 homes and lots in various > states of abandonment and decay from the tidy owner-occupied to the > burned-out shell claimed by squatters. > > Despite a minimum bid of $500, less than a fifth of the Detroit land was > sold after four days. > > http://www.reuters.com/article/gc03/idUSTRE59O17F20091026 What they fail to point out is the extremely high real estate tax in the city. Friends have a nicer place over in one of the historic districts and they pay nearly $10k a year in property taxes. The school system has failed so badly and are so unsafe, they sent their kids to a local private school, tacking another $15k a year onto that. The historic district has hired a private security firm to patrol, due to the fact the Detroit PD sucks so bad. Minimum response time is down to 45 minutes for a priority call. Have your house broken into? Call in the report yourself, if you can get someone to take it. I work in the city and they nail my pay at 1.5% for the "privilege". We've had at least 8 cars stolen out of the store lot in the past year. Detroit needs to be bulldozed, used as a target range for our military or just be pushed into the Detroit River and let nature take it's course in restoring it to a nature preserve. -- sleazy 2001 BMW R1150GS 1988 Honda XR600R 1996 Triumph Daytona 1200
From: TOG on 25 Nov 2009 08:11
On 25 Nov, 12:19, sleazy <n...(a)nil.net> wrote: > What they fail to point out is the extremely high real estate tax in > the city. Friends have a nicer place over in one of the historic > districts and they pay nearly $10k a year in property taxes. The > school system has failed so badly and are so unsafe, they sent their > kids to a local private school, tacking another $15k a year onto that. > The historic district has hired a private security firm to patrol, due > to the fact the Detroit PD sucks so bad. Minimum response time is > down to 45 minutes for a priority call. Have your house broken into? > Call in the report yourself, if you can get someone to take it. > > I work in the city and they nail my pay at 1.5% for the "privilege". > We've had at least 8 cars stolen out of the store lot in the past year. > Detroit needs to be bulldozed, used as a target range for our military > or just be pushed into the Detroit River and let nature take it's > course in restoring it to a nature preserve. > I had no idea it was as bad as that. Interestingly, there have been news reports here of British buyers at some of these auctions of abandoned homes. They seem to take the attitude: "It's only a few thousand dollars and, hey, the land might be worth something one day..." Is there *any* motor industry left in Detroit? |