28 Detroit houses selling for $500 at county auction
Some of the properties are abandoned and gutted, while others could fetch more than $85,000 in any other community.
Some of the properties are abandoned and gutted, while others could fetch more than $85,000 in any other community.
The reactions ranged from offensive and salacious to insightful or idiotic.
New CFO Jim Bonsall is accused of saying he wanted to “shoot someone in a hoodie.”
But the former council president was quick to deny sexual abuse allegations to a reporter last month.
Whoever wins the auction will inherit hefty costs, from demolition to a six-figure tax bill.
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During our one-hour drive, we saw scrappers, suspected drug dealers, a loose pit bull, gang-related graffiti, wide-open abandoned homes, dilapidated businesses and yards covered in trash.
Gone are pictures and urgent information about missing children.
This isn’t the 1967 riots. There’s no smoke or soot billowing into the air, but Detroit is still being looted by desperate people.
Melted plastic dolls, charred metal chairs and soot-covered stuffed animals poked out of the house.