Reply #51: Nothing

[hunter]

If you know the wrong sorts of people $500,000 might get you a "handyman's special" in which the previous occupants were shot to death in a drug deal that went bad. You could clean up the mess up and then rent it out to a very large extended family, maybe a dozen people, and they could put four beds in the garage and rent those beds out to other people.

Lots of families here live week-to-week in poorly maintained fifty year old motels. Lot's of people live in broken down cars and in the bushes too.

One previous occupant of the first house we rented in this city was taken away to jail for dismantling stolen cars in the backyard. Apparently he dumped a lot of oil, gasoline, transmission fluid, etc., on the ground, because it took us about two years before we could get anything to grow. When we first looked at the place I pointed out two poorly patched bullet holes in the front of the house to the landlord, but he insisted they weren't bullet holes without actually explaining what they were and I had to take him at his word because it was one of the few places we could actually afford that wasn't totally scary.