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Old 06-18-2009, 10:27 AM
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Default Got $100? Welcome to your new Detroit home

If an e-mail popped up in your inbox promising a house for $100, you'd expect to see it sent from a guy in Nigeria asking you to wire him several thousand dollars first.

But this depressed housing market dream is real. And Detroit, Michigan, artist Jon Brumit and his wife, Sarah, are living it.

The couple never counted on owning a home.

"It's not that we have a little money," Jon Brumit said, laughing. "I'm saying we have no money..."


Got $100? Welcome to your new Detroit home - CNN.com
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