your first house doens't have to be your dream house.

I'm not too worried about finding a particular house.  I don't mind putting in hard work to get things the way I want them.

I'm just a little obsessed with the garden, composting, and building up soil at this point, because I have been reading books about agricultural methods, maximizing yields, etc. 

68 million empty apartments in China and climbing.

68 million empty apartments in China and climbing.

Pretty much the same here in the states. Yet they keep building more.

Yeah, I dont get that... the train trip from Philly to NYC was an eye opener the first time round... all through Jersey empty factories, hundreds of them. Ok, sure the land probablly isnt habitable by any menas, but tearing through that much arable land just to poison and waste it makes no sense to me.

Building codes almost always make it cheaper to build a new factory or apartment building than to refurbish an old one.  Rehabbing old buildings for asbestos, lead, and other contaminants is often prohibitively expensive, so people just don't do it unless there are other constraints that limit them.

I'm moving to the Jacksonville area in Feb, starting a new yurt after the holidays. I have my eye on several properties in southern WV, TN, and KY.

Building codes almost always make it cheaper to build a new factory or apartment building than to refurbish an old one.  Rehabbing old buildings for asbestos, lead, and other contaminants is often prohibitively expensive, so people just don't do it unless there are other constraints that limit them.

Yep what's a good American businessman to do when he finds he has two 110 story corrosion riddled white elephants on his hands, spend billions to properly demolish them or ...

Exactly ...

That's the free market way.

Rezone farm land to built new facilities and houses instead of dealing with rehabbing or demolishing the old.

I'm moving to the Jacksonville area in Feb, starting a new yurt after the holidays. I have my eye on several properties in southern WV, TN, and KY.

Didnt you already buy some and in WV?

Maybe he plans to dig a tunnel into CIA headquarters.

I thought that was Emp ...

I've been monitoring the market up there closely but unless and until I'm in a position to go walk a property I'm not buying. And prices are plummeting there too.

Get a $1 property ...
No love lost there ...

Nah. I've lived in MI and visited Detroit. Pass thanks.

Hahahaha ...
I still like our idea though ...