Hacker News Reader

Comment by onetimemanytime | Hacker News Reader

as soon as I sell my $5 Detroit homes :).

There's a reason they're being given for free...

I always felt like The Walking Dead was missing an opportunity to do some good.

Years ago I read about a movie production crew that got permission to demolish a rundown public building as part of filming in exchange for rebuilding it afterward.

For TWD you could use several of those abandoned Detroit neighborhoods for a sequence and then bulldoze the neighborhood to the foundations afterward, reducing the health and safety concerns.

Ha. The idea of using Detroit for TWD, or even perhaps it's own spinoff series, is pretty gold, tbh.

It's not about the location, but about the tax credits...

Gov Snyder (with house) got rid of tax credits.

= no Walking Dead in Detroit :-)

Probably too expensive to do the bulldozing consider asbestos etc..

Seriously, Can you give some addresses ( or Zillow web url links) of Detroit home addresses where the home prices are so cheap

Here are some below $10k https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/Detroit-MI/17762_rid/0...

A lot of those ads seem to think that anyone would buy those homes to renovate them. Tearing them down seems to be the smart decision, if you could even consider buying abandoned Detroit homes smart. One of them has fire damage throughout the home, literally holes in the roof from the fire. Ad calls it a "handyman special".

https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/Detroit-MI/88117170_zp...

Realtors make "runs and drives, needs head gasket, $20 part, no time to fix" sound like something a pessimist would say.

There are a few auction sites online, I believe the city runs one or two of them. The thing people miss on these is their annual taxes, which are not forgiven, as well as the near instant requirements to meet livability standards (reno) lest they be fined. There's a lot to it that's over looked. As they say, no such thing as a free lunch.

Here's some that start at the 4k range.

https://www.point2homes.com/US/Cheap-Homes-For-Sale/MI/Detro...

Reply on news.ycombinator.com