Sounds much like the situation in Detroit. I know someone who tried to pull that stunt and bought a house in Detroit for just a few thousand dollars. It reall

Sounds much like the situation in Detroit. I know someone who tried to pull that stunt and bought a house in Detroit for just a few thousand dollars. It really did not take the city all that long (less than a year for sure) to decide he was not going to fix the place up. They made him an offer he could not refuse -- give it to the Detroit Land Bank for nothin, or go to court.