Author Topic: Anybody want to buy a town in South Dakota?  (Read 1071 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

benjipwns

  • your bright ideas always burn me
  • Senior Member
Anybody want to buy a town in South Dakota?
« on: July 26, 2011, 07:10:01 AM »
Just under $800,000!

http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/for-you-can-buy-town-of-scenic/article_6414400e-b669-11e0-b14b-001cc4c002e0.html
Quote
Scenic, once known as a Wild West town next to the Badlands, now finds itself in an unlikely place: listed for sale by the woman who has owned much of the town for years.

And she is hoping to get as much as $799,000 for 46 acres of West River land that includes 12 acres of a town that holds fond memories but finds itself in danger of becoming another Western ghost town.

“The businesses and land has always been family-run, but now, it’s time for someone else to come in and bring it back to life,” said LeeAnn Keester, the daughter of Twila Merril, who has listed most of the town of Scenic for sale. “It’s just me and my mom now, and now, with her health being what it is, it’s just too much for us.”

...

“The town sees around 700 cars go through on a day-to-day basis,” said David Olsen, broker associate for Coldwell Banker Commercial Real Estate. “We just need one to stop long enough and get a buyer in here.”

The listing includes 46 acres, with 12 acres in town and 34 acres surrounding it. It includes a U.S Post Office land lease, the Longhorn Fuel & Food Convenience Store, the Longhorn Saloon, a museum with knotty pine interiors, two homes and two jails.

...

Scenic is an unincorporated town that is governed by a township board, which means that a sale of the community to another party will have no effect on fire protection or the availability of water and sewer services, according to Scenic Fire Chief Mike Lehrkamp.

“As far as the fire department, it won’t affect us at all because it’s owned by the township,” he said. “The water and sewer system is owned by the township, too, so that won’t be affected, and everything will go as it always has up until this point."

...

Olsen said the listing has the potential to do very well during the Sturgis rally, especially the Longhorn Saloon, which he said was once a hot spot for motorcyclists passing through.

chronovore

  • relapsed dev
  • Senior Member
Re: Anybody want to buy a town in South Dakota?
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2011, 07:04:27 PM »
South Dakota.  :-\

BlackMage

  • The Panty-Peeler
  • Senior Member
Re: Anybody want to buy a town in South Dakota?
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2011, 07:51:59 PM »
we as a collective could buy it.
UNF

Human Snorenado

  • Stay out of Malibu, Lebowski
  • Icon
Re: Anybody want to buy a town in South Dakota?
« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2011, 07:54:30 PM »
we as a collective could buy it.

And turn it into a rape dumpster.
yar

Groogrux

  • Unofficial Bore Prude
  • Senior Member
Re: Anybody want to buy a town in South Dakota?
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2011, 08:02:58 PM »
we as a collective could buy it.

"And we shall call this land...  Boresboro."  :tophat
WTF

chronovore

  • relapsed dev
  • Senior Member
Re: Anybody want to buy a town in South Dakota?
« Reply #5 on: July 26, 2011, 08:52:46 PM »
Nice.

Joe Molotov

  • I'm much more humble than you would understand.
  • Administrator
Re: Anybody want to buy a town in South Dakota?
« Reply #6 on: July 26, 2011, 09:59:56 PM »
For $800,000 you should get the whole state.
©@©™

Cormacaroni

  • Poster of the Forever
  • Senior Member
Re: Anybody want to buy a town in South Dakota?
« Reply #7 on: July 27, 2011, 02:27:05 AM »
Let's start an enclave with guns and polygamy and aim to secede from the Union by 2015.
vjj

Shaka Khan

  • Leather Jihadist
  • Senior Member
Re: Anybody want to buy a town in South Dakota?
« Reply #8 on: July 27, 2011, 08:31:30 AM »
I'll provide the guns and medium well women.
Unzip

BlueTsunami

  • The Muffin Man
  • Senior Member
Re: Anybody want to buy a town in South Dakota?
« Reply #9 on: July 27, 2011, 09:24:15 AM »
I hope some eccentric billionaire gamer buys it and turns it into a real life replica of FFVII's Nibelheim
:9

Mupepe

  • Icon
Re: Anybody want to buy a town in South Dakota?
« Reply #10 on: July 27, 2011, 09:36:57 AM »
can i be the sheriff???

Shaka Khan

  • Leather Jihadist
  • Senior Member
Re: Anybody want to buy a town in South Dakota?
« Reply #11 on: July 27, 2011, 09:37:38 AM »
No, that would be boogie. You'd be the usual suspect along with Himu.

spoiler (click to show/hide)
$200
[close]
Unzip

Mupepe

  • Icon
Re: Anybody want to buy a town in South Dakota?
« Reply #12 on: July 27, 2011, 09:40:09 AM »
Isn't the Sheriff usually crooked?  Boogie is the town John Wayne or some shit

Himu

  • Senior Member
Re: Anybody want to buy a town in South Dakota?
« Reply #13 on: July 27, 2011, 09:43:54 AM »
I hope some eccentric billionaire gamer buys it and turns it into a real life replica of FFVII's Nibelheim

i like you
IYKYK

Human Snorenado

  • Stay out of Malibu, Lebowski
  • Icon
Re: Anybody want to buy a town in South Dakota?
« Reply #14 on: July 27, 2011, 10:55:13 AM »
Himuro will be our Minister of Religion- he's had experience w/ all of them at this point.  And since we'll probably be operating on a shoestring budget, he's also gonna have to be the Park Ranger.
yar

Himu

  • Senior Member
Re: Anybody want to buy a town in South Dakota?
« Reply #15 on: July 27, 2011, 10:56:36 AM »
i've only had experience with christianity and islam :(

wait, that is every religion :(
IYKYK

Great Rumbler

  • Dab on the sinners
  • Global Moderator
Re: Anybody want to buy a town in South Dakota?
« Reply #16 on: July 27, 2011, 12:02:07 PM »
oh man can i be the crazy old prospector

Only if you change your name to Pipper:

[youtube=560,345]wxHCsFmwubs[/youtube]
dog

Madrun Badrun

  • twin-anused mascot
  • Senior Member
Re: Anybody want to buy a town in South Dakota?
« Reply #17 on: July 27, 2011, 12:16:21 PM »
Let's start an enclave with guns and polygamy and aim to secede from the Union by 2015.

I don't think trying to secede again is a good thing.  You know what happened last time.  They freed the black people.

Madrun Badrun

  • twin-anused mascot
  • Senior Member
Re: Anybody want to buy a town in South Dakota?
« Reply #18 on: July 27, 2011, 06:57:56 PM »
:( no one likes my racist jokes anymore.  I miss tauntaun.

T234

  • Canadian Legal Expert and Hillballer
  • Senior Member
Re: Anybody want to buy a town in South Dakota?
« Reply #19 on: July 27, 2011, 07:02:27 PM »
WHERE AM TAUNTAUN
UK