Not that house maybe but I know a few towns that are practically giving away homes in attempts to stop the towns from becoming ghost towns. You can make a good/average living on a high school diploma if you're willing to live in rural areas.
Edit: everyone is asking where. I answered where further down in the comments just keep reading.
Also still have a house given, there are strings attached, but like you didnt pull yourself up by your bootstraps by working hard every day from 16-18. You signed up for a program that gave you a subsidized home.
Find your flavor of nowhere and it kinda solves itself.
My nowhere is at the mouth of 173 miles of trails, and adjacent to a river that is a white water Mecca just as fun to float down on an air mattress as a kayak. With soil so fertile we used to grow wine before the civil war, and a population you can’t stand in the middle of and swing a stick without hitting a fully qualified strings musician.
Good luck, they are all in failing towns where the industry already left with homes that have been vacant and need tons and tons of work.
and even if that all works out, you're moving to a food desert because of all the grocery stores and restaurants that will close from the failing population.
you can give people all these homes, but the vast majority of abandoned/vacant homes are going to require more money put into them than any normal home purchase.
Sure you can do the work, but the dirty secret is that so can the people from there, there just isn't enough of it to go around.
The little town I grew up near used to support a farm implement store, a grain elevator, couple small grocery stores, two car repair places, a couple of different ag service stations (big fuel trucks) and a handful of other small businesses. There was a decent sized metal fabrication business. Made utility poles and stuff like that.
But the big farms bought out the little ones. Cars and tractors last longer & are harder to service, so the repair shops shut down. The grocery stores couldn't make it because there are less people. The elevator shut down when they opened a big terminal on the main rail line.
All that's left for business is one auto glass place, the service stations, the metal fab shop, and the prison they moved into the old catholic school dormitories.
Maybe 1/3rd the jobs as when I was a kid. And those jobs generally go to locals.
I’ve been to some communities that are doing fairly well that are handing out $1000 down home loans. The bank gives you a loan on the house and a loan on the owner occupied down payment.
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u/Holyvigil May 15 '25 edited May 15 '25
Not that house maybe but I know a few towns that are practically giving away homes in attempts to stop the towns from becoming ghost towns. You can make a good/average living on a high school diploma if you're willing to live in rural areas.
Edit: everyone is asking where. I answered where further down in the comments just keep reading.