Entire Town For Sale On Ebay
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Nov 1, 2007
Nov 1, 2007
By Knox Bardeen
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It’s not Atlanta real estate, but I couldn’t resist posting about a small town for sale. It seems that the owner has decided to sell the entire town of Albert, Texas. And what’s even more intriguing is that he is selling it, via auction, on eBay.
Albert, Texas is a 13 acre town just 50 miles north of San Antonio. It used to have a post office, but now only sports peach and pecan orchards, a dance hall, a pavilion, a three bedroom house with a tractor shed and a tavern that is only open on weekends.
The reserve price is $2.5 million, which hasn’t been met yet.
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By Carl H. Martens on Nov 7, 2007 | Reply
Growing up as a young kid in the midwest, our family use to take vacations to the north woods of Wisconsin…we’d alwas visit the town of Minong. Minong is famous for it’s Jack Links (beef jerkey) factory…in fact, everything in this town was owned by Jack Links, the cleaners, car dealer, boat dealer, etc.
It was at this point that I decided I could move to some rural town and just start buying businesses up…eventually running and owning the town. In some ways I’d be like “the mob.”
In my later years I realized that the mob were always in big towns…I really didn’t want to live in a rural town so I changed my philosophy…start up 10 internet based companies that earn a net profit of $10,000 - $20,000 each and I’d be content. So far I have two companies at the age of 25 and they are earning within that range…8 more to go!
By Ryan Ward on Mar 6, 2008 | Reply
Knox,
Wasn’t there a town in south Georgia that was for sale and owned by Michelle Pfeifer or some actress like her?