Thursday, April 5, 2012

Got A Spare $100,000 Burning A Hole In Your Pocket? Buy your own zip code: towns for sale in Montana, Wyoming


No, seriously readers. Reuters reports that Buford, Wyoming, the nation's smallest town, will lose its long-time - and only - resident on Thursday when the outpost along Interstate 80 is auctioned off to the highest bidder. The minimum bid for Buford, 10-plus acres with a convenience store-cum-gas station situated between the capital city of Cheyenne and Laramie, Wyoming, is $100,000 (62,870 pounds) for a sale to take place in town at noon local time.

Buford is one of two tiny Western towns to be sold by owners whose spouses have died and whose adult children have moved on. Pray, Montana, population 8, is on the market for $1.4 million, a price realtors say is a steal for property just north of Yellowstone National Park in the scenic Paradise Valley….

Read all about it at http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/04/05/oukoe-uk-usa-towns-sale-idUKBRE83403U20120405?feedType=nl&feedName=ukoddlyenough

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