如果哪天别人跟你说，一千块买套房子，你是不是觉得难以置信呢？不是每月的租金，而是整套房子就属于你了。人们常说“便宜没好货，好货不便宜”。一千块的房子就像是天上掉下的馅饼一样，但是世上没有免费的午餐。所以这房子的质量让人产生怀疑，其实要搞定这套房子，使得你能居住在里面，还需要一笔钱。所以，听到这些看似很“划算”的事情的时候，还是要三思而后行啊！How about a house for a thousand bucks?Not on monthly payment, a whole house for a grand. It may sound unbelievable, but it's happening in some cities due to the explosion in foreclosures. Now they may not be pretty or in the best part of town, but some sellers just want them off their books.

Take this one in Detroit, a three-bed, one-bath bungalow with about a thousand square feet, of course, it needs a total renovation inside but the exterior, well, it's in fairly good shape, the price tag, that looks even  better, it's just 500 bucks. Or this home in Cleveland, a four-bed, one-and-a half bath selling for 1900 bucks. For the same amount  you could get this house in Birmingham, Alabama. It's had major fire damage but it's located on a public road and sits on about a third of an acre.

To be sure, you will have to put more than a thousand bucks into these homes to bring them up to code. But four walls and a roof for about a grand, that may make a lot of sense to folks these days. But as always, be careful at what you buy.