Originally Posted by
Lorax
Honestly, it was the taxes [[NEZ reductions included) and the idea of leaving it empty for months on end while traveling that precluded us from buying in Detroit as well. Love BE, and would have bought any one of them that weren't too crazy tax wise. Funny, some of the posted taxes are actually low on just a handful of these homes- like 200 bucks a year or less. My agent says they are true taxes, just didn't ever catch up to current rates for some reason. I saw one for only 78 bucks a year in my research!
In a related issue, I had looked at the home at 7640 LaSalle Blvd. at Lamothe, a perfectly proportioned Georgian colonial built in 1902, which was for sale a couple of years ago for 8500 bucks, and was in surprisingly good condition- when we decided to buy it, the agent told us it had suffered a fire- not a total loss, but bad enough to pass on buying it.
This house had gorgeous paneling in the entry hall and downstairs rooms, great fireplaces, and a pallaidan window on the stairwell, slate roof and dormers. It made me sick that it burned.
I took photos of it on our next trip up, when we actually bought in Southfield instead.
And the worst part of all, is that it later sold for only 500 bucks!!! If I had known, I still would have bought it, but had moved on by then.