Free Houses (or nearly free $1.00).. Here's one in Joliet

[SoCalDem]

http://www.landmarks.org/how_for_sale.htm

[avrdream]

1. Wish I owned a plot of land

and a house-moving business.

These are some great historical buildings. What a shame to lose them.

[SoCalDem]

2. $188K buys this beauty in Sylvan Grove

http://cgi.ebay.com/23-500-SF-Brick-School-Building-in-Sylvan-Grove-Kansas_W0QQitemZ300090992813QQihZ020QQcategoryZ15825QQcmdZViewItem




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Sylvan Grove Elementary School
Building Exterior Pictures






Dave Rose, of United Country - Mid West eServices in Salina, Kansas is offering for sale the former Sylvan Grove Elementary School. This wonderfully maintained building is located in Sylvan Grove just a few miles off Interstate-70 surrounded by rolling hills, limestone bluffs, and only 10 miles from Wilson Lake, the largest lake in Kansas. This is a rare opportunity to purchase a beautiful school facility while it is still operational. The facility would be a great location for a boarding school or similar business! Included in the sale are a 23,500 square foot building, a gymnasium with 10 showers in the locker rooms, 10 classrooms, offices, 4 bathrooms, music room, dining room, and outside tennis and basketball courts. The school district is hoping to sell the building now with occupancy scheduled for June 30th, 2007. The asking price has been set at $188,000.00.

[alphafemale]

3. Whenever I pass by an old house...or even a nearly fallen down house

I try to imagine to the time when the place still smelled of fresh wood and promise. A place of first steps and celebrations. A place that saw anger and forgiveness. A place where generations were sheltered. A place startled by its irrelevance.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Me too. And I always wonder how it came to get so rundown and abandoned.

[SoCalDem]

5. People used to stay in their homes their whole lives

and then leave them to the next generation. Now they move to a bigger better house and rent the old one out. Once it's a rental, it's not long until it's too rundown to repair, and a whole neigborhood devolves once the majority of the homes are rentals.:(

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. All too true. Then too their are the homes whose families died out

and the nearest relatives didn't do anything with it.

[alphafemale]

8. Especially when you know somebody had to have pride in the place once.

Perhaps even worked on it with their own hands.

[youthere]

6. I always wonder about that too... who might have lived there,

and what kind of families they were...what made them laugh.. what made them cry...what they hated and what they loved.

[alphafemale]

9. Old houses have thousands of tales they'll never forget and never tell. nt