Re:For Sale: The $100 House
by brk on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @07:05AM
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Haven't there been recurrent musings on Hacker News about getting a bunch of friends together and buying up a whole city block in Detroit?
Wow. I remember discussing that exact idea with a hacker colleague back in probably 1995 or so.
Buy a block. Fix it up. Surround with barbed wire fence.
I friend of mine that I haven't caught up with for about 10 years now owned 4 houses on Appoline last I knew. He probably owns at least a dozen now. He had them setup almost like "rooms". One had the PC and TV on the first floor and a gym in the basement. He "lived" in another, one was for his mom, and the other for a cousin.
Wow. I remember discussing that exact idea with a hacker colleague back in probably 1995 or so.
Buy a block. Fix it up. Surround with barbed wire fence.
I friend of mine that I haven't caught up with for about 10 years now owned 4 houses on Appoline last I knew. He probably owns at least a dozen now. He had them setup almost like "rooms". One had the PC and TV on the first floor and a gym in the basement. He "lived" in another, one was for his mom, and the other for a cousin.