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Are $1 homes worth buying?

Posted August 14, 2008 - 17:43 by Xin Lu

Personal Finance, Real Estate and Housing, General Tips

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This week a story from The Detroit News reported that homes are being listed in Detroit for $1. One particular $1 home sold for cash after being on the market for 19 days. The buyer seems to have gotten the deal of a lifetime, but did she?

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101 things to do with a $1 bill.

Posted 2 years ago by Paul Michael

Filed Under: Frugal Living

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What can a dollar buy you these days? Certainly not a gallon of gas, which it could have done 6 years ago. Anyway, this idea actually came out of a lunchtime chat with some friends. I’m a sucker for writing lists and I wondered how many different uses I could find for your humble $1 bill. Some are fun, some are silly, some may actually be useful. The list took me a whole week to compile. Enjoy.

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Turn $1 into $100 in about 2 minutes.

Posted 2 years ago by Paul Michael

Filed Under: Life Hacks

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So, I can think of a few ways to turn a $1 into a $100 bill in a few minutes.

One would be to back a winning horse that has ridiculous odds. Another is to steal it. You could always ask your kind folks or other relatives for the money. Or perhaps pull a con or scam on some unwitting passers by.

But this way seems the easiest. If only I knew how he did it.

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