homes for under 10 grand? yikes...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/04/fdic-fire-sale-11-homes-f_n_379120.html?

Detroit is the dirtiest city I've ever been to...and I've been to a lot of cities.

The last time I was there (for a Tigers game this year), we were on a tour bus for the Tiffin YMCA (it was a bunch of senior citizens, my sister and myself whom volunteered) a 10-13 year old kid was standing in the boulevard on a main, 4-lane street point his finger at us like a gun and pretending to blast at the bus. Just one of the more recent stories I have.

I read in SI earlier this year when they did an article on Detroit and the Tigers that the average home sells for only 14,000 and that was probably 3 months ago. I have to say that when I went to the final four Detroit surpassed my expectations. We walked virtually the whole downtown area between Friday and Monday. The people there were all very nice from people who worked in the offices to people we ment washing windows of cars as they drove by. The city itself had good public transportation and the entertainment and food seemed fine. The only problem was all the vacated buildings you could see. It is 1000x better then Topeka, Kansas or Gary, Indiana.

I thought it was well known that all the bums/homeless were vacated from that area prior to the Final 4?

My buddy of my dad's said that Detroit can be nice in some places, but then downright terrible in others. The terrible just is too much for the nice.

I am always looking at VA repos, to buy and I ocasionally look at detroit and you can get homes there for 3000.00 - 5000.00
I haven't bought on there though I can't helpo but wonder how bad it is there for a repo to really go that cheap.

The problem with Detroit isn't the downtown - it's the five-mile ring around downtown that's decayed beyond belief.

It's pretty cold, apparently. Which makes keeping peace a dodgy proposition.

SnotBubbles wrote: Detroit is the dirtiest city I've ever been to...and I've been to a lot of cities.

The last time I was there (for a Tigers game this year), we were on a tour bus for the Tiffin YMCA (it was a bunch of senior citizens, my sister and myself whom volunteered) a 10-13 year old kid was standing in the boulevard on a main, 4-lane street point his finger at us like a gun and pretending to blast at the bus. Just one of the more recent stories I have.

Downtown is really not bad at all anymore since they put up the 2 stadiums and retaurants in the area. I go up there easily 20-30 times a year and have never once had any sort of problem. Now you get away from downtown and there are some places I probably wouldn't go but from Joe Louis to Comerica/Ford Field is fine.

Time Magazine is running a year long story on Detroit where you can read about the plight that is going on there. I was amazed to read that in the entire city of Detroit there is not one major grocery store (i.e Krogers, Meijer's). There are also entire blocks of empty homes. It causes a problem for the city because square mileage wise Detroit is as big as it always was but population has shrunk drastically meaning tax dollars are down. The problem becomes policing the same size area with reduced funding. The Time articles are a pretty interesting read.

I once got lost in downtown(ish) area coming back from Windsor when I was 19. I was in some rough neighborhoods.... I finally found a sign for 75 and made it home. I guess that has no relevance to the thread..I would imagine if I was coming back from a casino at 2 in the morning in any major city that I have never driven in I would be freaking out.

Also I have been to Tigers and Lions games..never issues. Hell we parked about 12 blocks away from Comerica the one time and that was no big deal.

osu99 wrote: Time Magazine is running a year long story on Detroit where you can read about the plight that is going on there. I was amazed to read that in the entire city of Detroit there is not one major grocery store (i.e Krogers, Meijer's). There are also entire blocks of empty homes. It causes a problem for the city because square mileage wise Detroit is as big as it always was but population has shrunk drastically meaning tax dollars are down. The problem becomes policing the same size area with reduced funding. The Time articles are a pretty interesting read.

I remember reading that as well and findign that pretty absurd. you would thinkatleast 1 major grocery retailer would be there. things must be really bad up there

What are you talking about? Isn't Detroit an ideal place to raise a family?

osudarby08 wrote:

SnotBubbles wrote: Detroit is the dirtiest city I've ever been to...and I've been to a lot of cities.

The last time I was there (for a Tigers game this year), we were on a tour bus for the Tiffin YMCA (it was a bunch of senior citizens, my sister and myself whom volunteered) a 10-13 year old kid was standing in the boulevard on a main, 4-lane street point his finger at us like a gun and pretending to blast at the bus. Just one of the more recent stories I have.

Haha...not quite a civil as that. This kid had his hand tilted all "gangsta" and must have had a semi-automatic...because he was firing multiple bullets in a short period of time!

reminds me of the cleveland tourism video

This was in 91' mind you, but when Ashland played Wayne St in Detroit their Athletic department told us to tell anyone travelling to the game at Wayne st to stay on campus when parking and not to stray to far from campus because the university is located in a rough area of Detroit.