One man's trash is another's gold: Detroit. 1,419 square foot, 2 bathroom home with trees in the f

I used to live in the suburbs of Detroit, and believe me, you don't want to go into Detroit itself for any reason whatsoever. I broke down, and pulled off the highway onto a side street down there once, and had the most harrowing hour of my life waiting for the tow truck. Someone was murdered in that same area a few hours after I left. I had another friend who unwisely decided to drive side streets to go to a meeting downtown, and had a group of guys start rear-ending his car in an attempt to activate the fuel cut-off mechanism, so they could rob him. I cannot even begin to express how much you DON'T want to go there...

While that house may appear nice on the outside, I'd get on Google and look at the houses and area surrounding it to see what they look like. The last time I was there, it was like a third world country. Burnt out shells of homes, frames of burned cars in the streets, rats the size of dogs, torn up cement with four foot tall weeds growing out of it, garbage everywhere, fields of unmowed grass where homes were torn down, some houses are little more then piles of ruble, drug houses, gangs, etc... the city is in that shape, and no efforts to “revitalize” have work so far, for a reason.

I believe that a few years ago, as part of the push to revitalize Detroit, the city was selling property for as little as $1, as long as you cleared the land. Yet I still don't see much new popping up down there, and that is because f two other reasons. First, crime. If you again take a google map stroll down a street downtown, you'll notice that many houses have enough bars on them to put Fort Knox to shame. Secondly, you better be of the correct race for the area you are considering buying land in. If not you will not last long down there at all...