Cheap Houses For Sale

We found cheap houses for sale all over the country.in addition to it's beautiful mountain scenery, a ski
My wife Ana and I were on a seven-week driveresort and a Jack Nicholas golf course. Houses cost
around the country. It was a vacation, but we lookedfour times as much an hour in any direction, and
at houses too, and bought one in a great little townthose prices are bound to reach Anaconda
in the mountains of western Montana. It costeventually.Cheap Houses You Don't Want To
$17,500, and after $2000 to fix it up, we lived thereBuyThere are towns like the one in South Dakota
for several months before selling it for $28,000.Wewhere we stopped for lunch one day. A bulletin
loved Anaconda. Where else can you fly fish, go to aboard had ads for cheap houses for sale by
three-dollar movie in a beautiful old art-deco theatredesperate people trying not to be the last to leave
(the 5th most beautiful in the country, according totown. There was a photo of a beautiful old
the Smithsonian), drop some nickles in a slot machine,five-bedroom farmhouse for $11,000. As we ate, we
eat at a fine restaurant, stop by the bar for a dollarlooked up the deserted street and noticed that most
beer, and buy a house for under $30,000 - all within aof the buildings were boarded-up. This was a dying
four block area! There are good schools andtown, with nothing to help revive it. A free house
churches, a library with fast internet service, andwouldn't be a good enough reason to move
wildlife (including bears) a few hundred yards fromhere.Cheap House For Sale - Our CriteriaThere are
downtown.Why Are There Cheap Houses Formany wonderful towns, from Florida to Oregon,
Sale?There are cheap houses in Anaconda, andwhere there are cheap houses for sale. After our
nearby Butte because there aren't many good jobs. IMontana experience, we started a website about
easily found jobs in Anaconda - but not good ones.them. What does a town need in order to make our
This explains why people left the area in the 80's,list? The criteria are certainly subjective, but include
after the mines and smelters closed.Thirteen percentat least the following:1. Population of 4,000 to 80,000.
of the "housing units" in Anaconda are vacant,2. Decent library.
according to the 2000 U.S. census. This has driven3. Good grocery store.
down the home prices dramatically. Since it still has all4. Movie theatre.
the basic ammenities, is cleaner now, and is slowly5. At least six houses for sale under $50,000.
recovering, it's a great place to retire to or to move6. The town has a good "feel" to it.After much
to if you have an internet or otherresearch, we found a number of towns that met our
non-location-based business.A poor local economy iscriteria, including some with homes for under $30,000.
the reason you can buy cheap houses in many partsThere really are nice towns out there where you can
of the country. These are towns that have seenfind cheap houses for sale.Steve Gillman has invested
troubled times, but are often recovering, sometimesin real estate for years.
with good reasons. Anaconda, for example, now has,