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You can buy a whole town in Colorado for $350,000
You can buy a whole town in Colorado for $350,000
Image of the cafe in Cabin Creek, Colorodo in the 60s.
cabincreekcolorado.com
If you are fed up with the way things are working in your town, maybe it’s time to just buy your own.
Sharp-eyed shoppers noticed a listing on Craigslist this week: an entire ghost town for sale.
Cabin Creek, Colorado covers about five acres and includes a gas station, an eight-room motel, a couple of houses and a partially working septic system.
Plus, you can make the rules. Isn’t that how that works? Maybe not.
Anyway, the whole town will run you just $350,000, according to the listing.
About half the cost of a two-bedroom house where I live in Oakland.
Maybe I should do it.
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