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How To Buy A House For $4000
How one hermit thrives in poverty.
The Land Bank inspector came to my house yesterday. I’d known about the inspection for a few weeks; I’d called to schedule it myself in early February. It’s part of the process of buying the house that I live in from the Land Bank, a government agency that takes tax foreclosed homes and tries to get them sold and occupied as quickly as possible.
Because I’ve lived here since December 2017, but was not the owner of the home when it went through tax foreclosure in 2019, I’ve been offered the chance to buy the house.
For $4000.
It’s a two-bedroom house with a full basement, kitchen, living room, dining room, and a lot and a half that includes a garage converted to a workshop with its own fuse box. Pre-existing gardens, a pond, raspberry patches, and mulberry trees make it ideal for my dreams of turning an urban home into a sustainable hermitage, growing as much of my own food as possible, and creating an oasis of spiritual renewal in the midst of a city nearly destroyed by poisoned water.
I have a couple of months to come up with the money. It’ll be a stretch, but based on past fundraising efforts, it’s within the realm of doable for me.
