Originally Posted by
wawaweewa
Originally Posted by
SuperAntigen
Originally Posted by Toy Collector123
Sad part is, I could flip those houses and make a killing.
Bingo.
Many of you are so naive it's unbelievable. Like most cities, Detroit is having a huge economic downturn. Unlike most cities however, detroit doesn't have the luxury of some booming industry and/or sector to rely on. This is why it's in the state it's in. But you'd be a fool to think this is permanent. At some point in the future, industry is going to move back because of prime real estate and a prime labor force. Of course, with the arrival of what is essentially "new" money into the city, you'll see the development of restuarants, apartments, shopping malls, and more forms of economic growth.
Purchasing a crib, for cheap no less, and watching it appreciate is sweet icing on the cake. If i had loot, I would seriously be in detroit buying property and investing for the future.
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What the hell are you talking about?
"At some point......". At some point when? 50. 60. 100 years from now?
What's so "prime" about Detroit? They lived solely off of the US auto and auto parts manufacturers and those will not reach the heights that they once had in the US.
GM and Ford just opened new plants in Russia. Yeh, they basically told Detroit to *!%# off.
What "prime" real estate are you talking about? What "prime" labor force?
You'd be better off buying 16k worth of land in China or India and hoping to strike it rich in a few decades.
First, for any city to boom, one needs jobs and lots of them. Who the *!%# is going to bring jobs to Detroit nowadays?
I'll give you an example of a once vibrat industry laden area that turned to #%@! ala Detroit; Binghamton, NY.
Look where it's at now after 30 years of the industrial corp. leaving. It's still a ****hole.
You're dreaming if you think another boom is destined for Detroit in the near future.