Looking to make a major life change?
Looking to make a major life change?
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I'm sure you could find a cheap condemned shit hole in your nearest rural area too. That doesn't mean that it's a good deal.
It's so cheap because the current owner doesn't want to spend the money on demolishing the structure before selling vacant land. And if it is still available it is because no developer has looked at it and thought that they could make money on the flip.
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Also watched a video about a $4K unit in tokyo because you are literally not allowed to renovate it.
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Do you remember the title of that video? Even if it's got concrete floors and walls you're not allowed to cut, I'm surprised if you can't improve it enough to sell for more than 4K.
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Tons of places like that in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsyltucky, and all over the Midwest US. My girlfriend was scrolling through them talking about selling her house and buying one of those places on a big plot of land and thank fucking Jeebus I talked her out of it. I was like "babe, have you never seen the cinematic masterpiece 'The Money Pit' with Tom Hanks?"
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My husband occasionally talks about the same things. There's no way of making real money out there, and there's no way I'm living in a small town/city ever again, unless a high six figures job somehow hinges on it.
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Two weeks...
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Can confirm.
There's properties about 2 hours drive from where I am in Western Australia that are unsellable.
There would've been 100 people living in a community there in the past but now it's just a few old people waiting to die.
When someone does die the houses just end up being abandoned because you can't even get an agent to drive out there and put up a for sale sign.
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The interesting part about a bunch of the homes in more rural Japan is that they're not actually condemned or shit holes. They're old and would definitely need some love and attention but their population hasn't been at replacement levels for a long time and people would rather live in a big city where they have access to all of the things so slowly and steadily the outer Fringe population areas in Japan have ben getting more and more empty leaving perfectly good houses to sit vacant for years. That's not to say that there aren't shit holes that aren't worth the time it takes to go see them but a large portion of them are actually quite nice.
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There are no visible electric or telecom lines running to the house which means they have a generator for power And no communication. And it looks like it might not have a poured foundation although I'm not sure about that.
But the farmer who lived there didn't need those things. Someone who plans on working from home will need such things.
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That place is abandoned likely because the farmer who lived there died or went into a senior care facility. There are houses like this one all over the world in rural areas and I can guarantee two things: poor infrastructure and septic tanks. The reason it's cheap is because no developer wants an undeveloped lot.
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