• letsgo2themall@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    10 months 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.

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
      2·
      10 months 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.

      • mayo@lemmy.today
        0·
        10 months 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’.