• Let's Go 2 the Mall!@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I live in a small town in the SE US. I bought my house for $89,900, 12ish years ago. There are 3 vacant houses on my street and they are all listed for $250,00 or more. My house is bigger than all of them. They have all been empty for over a year.

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      1 year ago

      They really should tax empty houses at 100%. You’ll see how fast they will sell, and how low the price will go to achieve that.

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        1 year ago

        We do that in Vancouver and it’s good. The fines are steep.

        But it’s opened a mini industry of people being paid to visit homes so they aren’t ‘empty’.