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  • Опубліковано 29 лип 2023
  • In recent years dozens of towns across the country, from abandoned mining settlements to desert enclaves, have been listed for sale. Correspondent Christina Ruffini reports on opportunities for someone in the market to own a town of their very own, from a 40-acre village in Maine, to a sprawling Rocky Mountain ghost town.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 211

  • @heidifluteatl
    @heidifluteatl 10 місяців тому +48

    If I was a movie maker I would buy the Maine property. You could make so many different movies set in this area.

    • @KatjeKat86
      @KatjeKat86 10 місяців тому +8

      Personally, if someone has the money and the interest they could use it for movies, weddings or all sorts of things and make a decent living off of it.

    • @aaronbenjamin2210
      @aaronbenjamin2210 9 місяців тому +2

      For some reason, I keep thinking it can be used for hallmark movies lol

    • @theironclads
      @theironclads 3 місяці тому +1

      I thought the same thing. Film studios & TV networks could utilize some of these towns for their productions. Hallmark Channel, are you watching?

  • @ZebsterP43
    @ZebsterP43 10 місяців тому +74

    And Tutville is not a town…it’s a private enclave of private buildings on private land in a tiny piece of a real town

    • @owenjohnson7447
      @owenjohnson7447 10 місяців тому +7

      Exactly. Nothing about this is a town

  • @dedik8SKB
    @dedik8SKB 10 місяців тому +38

    5.5 million? I hope it went into the right hands. I've worked on properties 25 million plus that weren't this gorgeous or large.

  • @boycott2720
    @boycott2720 10 місяців тому +300

    So if you buy a town, and rent all of the businesses and buildings, can you build a Manor house and call yourself a LORD?

    • @CWROOFMASTER
      @CWROOFMASTER 10 місяців тому +27

      Yes you can.😊

    • @joanneweiss3864
      @joanneweiss3864 10 місяців тому +23

      You can do whatever you want, it's all yours😂

    • @sharonh2991
      @sharonh2991 10 місяців тому +19

      LOL! I don’t own a town and I still consider myself a Lord!

    • @weaponizedglitter69
      @weaponizedglitter69 10 місяців тому +4

      Yes

    • @HughJass-jv2lt
      @HughJass-jv2lt 10 місяців тому +16

      You can call yourself _THE GOVERNOR..._
      😜😜

  • @joshuacoldwater
    @joshuacoldwater 9 місяців тому +13

    I’d love to buy a town and help older kids that are in the foster system- It is a dream though.

  • @Bettinasisrg
    @Bettinasisrg 10 місяців тому +19

    Good for his dad! I hope a wonderful person or preservation group buys it! I'd love to buy a town!!

  • @Rudster14
    @Rudster14 10 місяців тому +46

    A lot of these aren't legally towns but rather compounds. Unless it's a town you can't make your own laws

    • @poundtrader1414
      @poundtrader1414 10 місяців тому +3

      so true 👍👍

    • @rizkyadiyanto7922
      @rizkyadiyanto7922 10 місяців тому +2

      you can make your own law on your private property.

    • @Rudster14
      @Rudster14 10 місяців тому +4

      @@rizkyadiyanto7922 no you can't. You can't control zoning, you can't have elections and so on

    • @poundtrader1414
      @poundtrader1414 10 місяців тому +3

      @@rizkyadiyanto7922 No you can't make our own law

  • @serafinacosta7118
    @serafinacosta7118 10 місяців тому +16

    There are ongoing costs … law enforcement , maintenance , ……

    • @kamuelalee
      @kamuelalee 10 місяців тому +2

      Taxes, surcharges

  • @adelaferreira4575
    @adelaferreira4575 10 місяців тому +15

    Great buy for a movie studio ,or TV set ,the one in Maine of course !

  • @happygilmore1844
    @happygilmore1844 9 місяців тому +11

    Australians are always welcome here in the USA, love their entreprenuer spirit!!!

  • @ImYoutubing247
    @ImYoutubing247 10 місяців тому +6

    “Why does a circus want to buy a town?”
    “Well we’re an hour from Vegas and I like gum trees”

  • @nata3467
    @nata3467 10 місяців тому +9

    This could make a great vacation complex... antique stores

  • @PDogB
    @PDogB 10 місяців тому +95

    Loved this, especially the part about the circus property. Thank you! I was wondering if the towns have utilities, or they generate any of their own? Functional septic systems, etc?

    • @BeardedDragonMan1997
      @BeardedDragonMan1997 10 місяців тому +1

      That is NONE of your business! 😂

    • @PDogB
      @PDogB 9 місяців тому +1

      @Iceman72185 I like to find out more about things in the background of a good story, that's all. I have already found my home.

    • @BeardedDragonMan1997
      @BeardedDragonMan1997 9 місяців тому +2

      @@PDogB RFK Jr

  • @karentrimmer
    @karentrimmer 10 місяців тому +21

    Wilcox Farms in my ancestorial home of Roy/Yelm WA on Hart Lake Rd, was doing this on a smaller scale back in the 1950s. They had reassembled the town on their property. The school my grandmother, and mother attended, the post office, and my grandfather's hip-roof barn was added later. They were still there in the 1980s

  • @patrickfitzgerald2861
    @patrickfitzgerald2861 10 місяців тому +12

    Those prices will buy you a little beach shack in southern California these days, or a really nice place elsewhere in most of the country . . . interesting choices.

  • @BigRobChicagoPL
    @BigRobChicagoPL 9 місяців тому +2

    That tuthill place would make for a super antique retreat and walkable museum, kind of like the castles in europe. So much potential and the preservation has already been done

  • @MrWaterbugdesign
    @MrWaterbugdesign 10 місяців тому +10

    I've never heard a case of anyone buying whole towns and it not being back on the market before any dream is realized.

  • @MiriamLove366
    @MiriamLove366 10 місяців тому +82

    I love your show and all your stories.❤️

    • @mandcbruce
      @mandcbruce 10 місяців тому +2

      Me, too

    • @jim6811
      @jim6811 10 місяців тому

      @@mandcbruce except when it is political. I stopped DVR it for that reason.

  • @debrahelmlinger6256
    @debrahelmlinger6256 10 місяців тому +18

    In Florida this being done in many communties to save the oldest buildings, many are now museums that hold events to preserve the past

    • @sentientarugula2884
      @sentientarugula2884 10 місяців тому +1

      Where for example?

    • @scott.baierscott2198
      @scott.baierscott2198 10 місяців тому

      Well, no one cares about fl. That's why all insurance companies but 2 have pulled out of fl.. they dont care to insure it anymore.

  • @pancakeday4866
    @pancakeday4866 10 місяців тому +25

    I want someone to buy it and turn it into a senior/family living community.

    • @dwaynehall6356
      @dwaynehall6356 10 місяців тому +2

      Sounds good to me.

    • @mstreich
      @mstreich 10 місяців тому

      That’s exactly what I was thinking.

    • @Seaflower722
      @Seaflower722 10 місяців тому +8

      The other day I saw a documentary where a small town was built solely for people with Alzheimer’s and like memory loss conditions in Canada and people live very independently. But it was closed off and secure to keep them from going away too far. Very clean and very cute living conditions.

    • @whitepouch0904
      @whitepouch0904 10 місяців тому

      @@Seaflower722they also have in Netherlands I think

  • @vasantos-re4hb
    @vasantos-re4hb 10 місяців тому +2

    This is so next level. People would come and visit.

  • @coryprocise5354
    @coryprocise5354 10 місяців тому +1

    I was in Nipton while the trading post was still open. It was a neat little place. It is in the middle of nowhere though.

  • @Darci3333
    @Darci3333 10 місяців тому +12

    I wish i could get it and live there it could be so beautiful ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @EvaUnit_01
    @EvaUnit_01 10 місяців тому

    went to Nipton awhile back, it’s a lovely place to sleep in a tipi, grab lunch if you’re driving the less traveled roads

  • @gamerjunction5335
    @gamerjunction5335 9 місяців тому

    My introduction to Nipton was with the Legion in Fall New Vegas.

  • @kaykiekid
    @kaykiekid 10 місяців тому +4

    I wish I could buy! Then I can get some great sleep! I know that it will be peaceful living in my own town because it's too noisy where I'm living now! 😟😑😬

  • @user-ow3xu3go1g
    @user-ow3xu3go1g 4 місяці тому

    It would be so freeing to walk around and feel good about being there, nobody to bother you, like an island of your own, just beautiful.

  • @Chaotic_Pixie
    @Chaotic_Pixie 9 місяців тому +1

    Little villages essentially are the basis of an amazing all-inclusive resort opportunity if you ask me. Very "camp in the adirondacks a la Dirty Dancing" kinda vibes.

  • @cherylcarlson3315
    @cherylcarlson3315 10 місяців тому +9

    I can see becoming a collector of imperiled, gorgeous homes quite easily. Good thing this 120 yo house demands to be an only child.

  • @benjaminanderson5176
    @benjaminanderson5176 10 місяців тому

    Love this!

  • @christinacascadilla4473
    @christinacascadilla4473 10 місяців тому +2

    Good advertising! They are sure to find a buyer now! Maybe Steve Cohn.

  • @LifeisGood762
    @LifeisGood762 9 місяців тому

    Wow these are really cool.

  • @davidwitte8469
    @davidwitte8469 10 місяців тому +3

    4:30 The Union Pacific doesn’t come around much anymore.
    Lisa Simpson

  • @JMMidwest321
    @JMMidwest321 10 місяців тому +6

    A Circus town? I’m from Wisconsin, we just called that town Baraboo! lol, j/k 😊

    • @mstreich
      @mstreich 10 місяців тому +1

      My in-laws lived there. We visited a few years back. Cute town.

    • @JMMidwest321
      @JMMidwest321 10 місяців тому +1

      @@mstreich I’ve visited there to visit the Circus World Museum and to walk around their downtown area. Nice little town. Interesting how the Ringling Brothers Circus was founded and based there for years. I remember thinking to myself “Imagine living in such a small town and seeing all the Circus performers & Sideshow acts walking around in the off season!” And “Out of all the places in the US, how did Baraboo get the Circus! 😊”

  • @CD_RN_Independent_Voter
    @CD_RN_Independent_Voter 9 місяців тому +1

    Lol
    “What if you have a heart attack?”
    “Then I die.”

  • @donniemoder1466
    @donniemoder1466 10 місяців тому +3

    How do you not know how many buildings are in this town?

  • @GamerbyDesign
    @GamerbyDesign 10 місяців тому +4

    I wish I could buy a town

  • @tyrehester5550
    @tyrehester5550 10 місяців тому +1

    Property tax in Maine is extremely high. I see why he wants to unload this on someone else. I suspect his plan is to move somewhere in the South?

  • @brucegelman5582
    @brucegelman5582 10 місяців тому +11

    These places have no services, are in the middle of nowhere and cost ten times the asking price to rejuvinate.Perfect for a young bitcoiner with vision.

  • @mr.abbott212
    @mr.abbott212 10 місяців тому +1

    I want to buy the New York one. Anyone know the address/ listing?

  • @jamesburton1050
    @jamesburton1050 9 місяців тому

    Wow!!!

  • @iwonadziegielewska
    @iwonadziegielewska 10 місяців тому

    Magnificent ❤❤❤❤

  • @juliemead7366
    @juliemead7366 10 місяців тому +1

    Cool.

  • @brianhornak5937
    @brianhornak5937 10 місяців тому +4

    Great Segment Christina

  • @Jose-Zuniga0228
    @Jose-Zuniga0228 10 місяців тому +1

    If I had the money I would buy it ❤

  • @kehwa
    @kehwa 10 місяців тому +4

    This version of Nipton doesn't match the timeline of Fallout New Vegas.

  • @FORBIDCharlie1986
    @FORBIDCharlie1986 10 місяців тому

    There are mansions sitting on properties in Beverly Hills California bigger than these "towns".

  • @PerspectiveEngineer
    @PerspectiveEngineer 10 місяців тому +1

    Super sweet... save history. It ours.

  • @beckyodom2097
    @beckyodom2097 9 місяців тому

    Turn it in to mains own green feild village like Michigan has in Dearborn

  • @awesomebookpromotion
    @awesomebookpromotion 10 місяців тому

    Would love to own a town. Can rename it Awesomeville :)

  • @achildsheart4658
    @achildsheart4658 10 місяців тому +1

    People who dont need to talk about politics. And are principled base should get together and buy the town . No extremism.

  • @hailesalassierasterfari6218
    @hailesalassierasterfari6218 10 місяців тому +3

    Forget a house, I wanna buy a mountain and move it to my town.

  • @ramoncitoretrogamingojeda7489
    @ramoncitoretrogamingojeda7489 10 місяців тому

    Awe true to Caesar

  • @commonsense9119
    @commonsense9119 9 місяців тому

    Ok 👍🏼 deal I want to buy it !!!

  • @marilyno8616
    @marilyno8616 10 місяців тому +10

    I would love to buy a town, AND MAKE IT FREE OF CARS & LOUD MOTORS !!!!
    As well as chemical free !
    Heck, let's keep going ... fully ecological, and mindful too !

    • @cknorris3644
      @cknorris3644 10 місяців тому +3

      yeah because thats realistic. As you type comments on your electronic device. 🤣

    • @een_schildpad
      @een_schildpad 10 місяців тому +1

      Hey, I'd live in that town! Let's do this!

    • @sentientarugula2884
      @sentientarugula2884 10 місяців тому

      @@cknorris3644 They exist; Tom Scott just covered a Swiss town with no cars

    • @Summerbreeze537
      @Summerbreeze537 9 місяців тому

      Sound good but I prefer a car when the weather is freezing out.

  • @JustinKatz
    @JustinKatz 9 місяців тому

    What is the NY property at 2:48 ????

  • @BearMeat4Dinner
    @BearMeat4Dinner 10 місяців тому +6

    I want it!!!!❤❤❤

  • @markdcmountp
    @markdcmountp 10 місяців тому

    Every time I hear the word “Compound” I wanna run the other way ‼️

  • @twitchell2682
    @twitchell2682 10 місяців тому +2

    So was this news or a commercial?

  • @jaytrumpwins5739
    @jaytrumpwins5739 10 місяців тому

    Oooh

  • @robinshepard4571
    @robinshepard4571 10 місяців тому +3

    God Bless America 🇺🇸

  • @humpteedumptee8629
    @humpteedumptee8629 10 місяців тому

    what if you have a heart attack? than i die lmao.

  • @larry785
    @larry785 10 місяців тому +5

    The way businesses are leaving San Francisco, it might be for sale soon!!!!

  • @JonesJr876
    @JonesJr876 10 місяців тому +5

    He owns a town? Acquired from his father? This is not David Rose? 😂

  • @celieboo
    @celieboo 10 місяців тому +1

    This makes me think of Bill in "The Last of Us".

  • @MichelleInnes-pc2zn
    @MichelleInnes-pc2zn 9 місяців тому

    Can I move in?

  • @roachlarry1488
    @roachlarry1488 10 місяців тому

    If I only had the money😢

  • @SFCaliofUSA
    @SFCaliofUSA 10 місяців тому

    There’s a lot of wealthy foreigner would love to get those towns , all of them.

  • @Theantichryst
    @Theantichryst 7 місяців тому

  • @user-xu2et4ei2m
    @user-xu2et4ei2m 6 місяців тому

    show as the market place of Sale

  • @3506Dodge
    @3506Dodge 10 місяців тому +1

    I've never heard of "gum" trees.

    • @magnoliab7155
      @magnoliab7155 10 місяців тому

      Australia, dear, Australia. He said he was from Australia.

    • @3506Dodge
      @3506Dodge 10 місяців тому

      @@magnoliab7155 huh?

  • @onlineshoppingjakarta7338
    @onlineshoppingjakarta7338 10 місяців тому

    Town for sale next level City for sale next level country for sale

  • @benmckinney2941
    @benmckinney2941 10 місяців тому

    Bethesda should have bought Nipton

  • @Brandonhayhew
    @Brandonhayhew 8 місяців тому

    if i owned this town. then i would make this place. for 10k to 20k residential people to live there and farmers

  • @howardjuliewiley5629
    @howardjuliewiley5629 10 місяців тому +3

    Was the Last of Us filmed here for an episode?

    • @joanneweiss3864
      @joanneweiss3864 10 місяців тому +2

      Haha was thinking same but nope, my son-a game fanatic since college 10 yrs ago- got me into the show bc I adore Pedro (WOW this show!!!) He gave me a list of where every single EP was filmed bc he compared to game....and I asked bc love the show so much😂 Like most of EP 1, EP 3 was filmed in Calgary, Alberta Canada. "Bill's bucolic Hamlet was shot in the High River neighbourhood of Beachwood - an area not immune to its own real-life disaster. The neighbourhood was abandoned in 2013 when the Highwood River breached its banks during the province's devastating flood event."

    • @howardjuliewiley5629
      @howardjuliewiley5629 10 місяців тому +1

      @@joanneweiss3864 I just did an online search on it. Interesting back story to the little town that they used in Episode 3. I guess Stephen King took issue with it because it didn't look like it was in the U.S. I love that show as well. Can hardly wait for season 2 but with the writers and SAG strike, it will be awhile.

    • @mooonie6634
      @mooonie6634 10 місяців тому +1

      @@joanneweiss3864 Many of the dead of winter scenes were filmed in Finland.

  • @richardharepax123
    @richardharepax123 9 місяців тому

    I wouldn't mind having it but I only have ten dollars to spare

  • @rebeccaduncan5970
    @rebeccaduncan5970 6 місяців тому +1

    why not had ownership of a town like to seeing beast boy had ownership of a town his and raven ownership of a town and it all his own now,

  • @ChrissyLovesJesus
    @ChrissyLovesJesus 10 місяців тому

    The featured property is worth nothing if there’s no buyer. The only value is bragging rights. Hahaha ! The responsibilities that come with it are time consuming & costly.

  • @ConstantChaos1
    @ConstantChaos1 7 місяців тому

    I hope someone buys it and rewilds it

  • @Max-uu2gs
    @Max-uu2gs 10 місяців тому +2

    Ok, build a town, And show rest of us what zero crime is❤ . RESULT, walmart and home depot MOVE IN, then the crime starts ❤😂😂😂

  • @supermodelatlanta1354
    @supermodelatlanta1354 10 місяців тому +6

    AND THEY SAY GENERATIONAL WEALTH DONT EXIST

  • @allancortes5716
    @allancortes5716 9 місяців тому

    5 million that’s a deal 🙉🙉

  • @bbsara0146
    @bbsara0146 10 місяців тому

    to my knowledge the only person to actually own a municipality was Disney Corporation in florida. This guy just has a bunch of buildings on his land that he pays taxes on to a real town.

  • @dwa3210
    @dwa3210 10 місяців тому

    Towns for sale? Did someone call Johnny Rose yet?😂

  • @lamh5265
    @lamh5265 10 місяців тому +1

    It should be illegal to buy a town or a lake......These are the same kind of people who discriminate against free people. Making rules about why another can't stay.

    • @beatrixbrennan1545
      @beatrixbrennan1545 10 місяців тому

      Now you're discriminating against people who can afford something you cannot because you fear they will discriminate. You're part of the problem. There are plenty of folks I've seen that buy large acreage and set up tiny house communities etc. that are peaceful and eco friendly.

  • @billypoe3703
    @billypoe3703 7 місяців тому

    No!

  • @knowledgeispower4235
    @knowledgeispower4235 9 місяців тому

    Im the right person, im just waiting for my lottery win 🏆 😅

  • @veronicacordero9829
    @veronicacordero9829 10 місяців тому +10

    Hope they don't sell to China

    • @DezaRay24
      @DezaRay24 10 місяців тому +2

      But a greedy American Corp would be better?

    • @writerconsidered
      @writerconsidered 10 місяців тому +3

      @@DezaRay24 No. But they shouldn't sell it to any corporation.

    • @writerconsidered
      @writerconsidered 10 місяців тому +2

      I think they will be highly selective on who they sell it to.

  • @JennyMack
    @JennyMack 10 місяців тому +1

    a matter of sewer, water, electric, fuel,...

    • @myurbangarden7695
      @myurbangarden7695 10 місяців тому

      I bet it's on broken down septic and wells. Off Grid power is easy enough these days.

  • @mohamedtwt1900
    @mohamedtwt1900 10 місяців тому

    Did @MrBeast saw this!

  • @user-yg1zp8uk4d
    @user-yg1zp8uk4d 9 місяців тому

    😅

  • @amirabdulazeez3241
    @amirabdulazeez3241 10 місяців тому

    Having land is worthless when there is no Human Resources establishing businesses in there

  • @s.barasa
    @s.barasa 10 місяців тому

    Probably if I'm laundering money ...

  • @jamesmitch9792
    @jamesmitch9792 10 місяців тому +2

    can we not bring company towns back?

    • @wildcard9724
      @wildcard9724 10 місяців тому +2

      Elon Musk is doing just that outside Austin, TX. Residents aren't thrillled.

    • @myurbangarden7695
      @myurbangarden7695 10 місяців тому +1

      ​@@wildcard9724 WE ARE NOT..... Increased property tax and traffic and nearly not the amount of jobs promised. His California executives buy large swaths of land and properties then rent them out to low level employees for exorbitant rent prices. NOT A GOOD DEAL at all.

  • @rodee1671
    @rodee1671 10 місяців тому

    Take m'munneh.

  • @dungeonmaster16
    @dungeonmaster16 10 місяців тому

    ngl this is some fallout 76 vibes im getting right now

  • @Richey4Fun
    @Richey4Fun 9 місяців тому +1

    They should let new immigrants live there☮️🔵

  • @Andrew-nu8ez
    @Andrew-nu8ez 10 місяців тому

    The right person went find him. LOL😂😂😂. More like a fool will find him if he's lucky.

  • @johnnydavis3866
    @johnnydavis3866 10 місяців тому +1

    Nobody buying these One Horse Towns it's just Silly

  • @preshisify1
    @preshisify1 9 місяців тому

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