LP'ers, would you trade your McMansion for a beat up home in North Baton Rouge?

Here’s the deal though, this does nothing to solve the problem. So you move a bunch of people who are already financially unstable into homes that they cannot afford so that those nice new homes will become abandoned and run down too? What does that accomplish?

It all depends on what you want to make you happy. Lots of people like the cheaper homes with more yard and SQFT and can put up with living out in LP

thought north baton rouge flooded in 2016

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Cons:
1. You'll get shot
2. You'll get robbed

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Benefits:
1. Culcha!!!

Are the demographics and crime rate being swapped too? Otherwise the commute and DSLD home win without question

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Here’s the deal though, this does nothing to solve the problem. So you move a bunch of people who are already financially unstable into homes that they cannot afford so that those nice new homes will become abandoned and run down too? What does that accomplish?

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1. Reacquire the high ground.
2. Reestablish the business center
3. Reduce Traffic (commutes)
4. Reestablish middle/upper class BTR, "model city".

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The residents of NBR don't maintain their houses. I'm betting there's a lot of structural issues.

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I bought a house for $55k that hadn't had any work done in 40 years and put in ~$18k in work to live in it while working at the plant. (didn't lift a hammer myself)

1. Braced two cracked joists -$1,600
2. Demo'd kitchen and bath- $800
3. Put claw-foot tub, new toilet, and sink= $2,000
4. .75 inch back board on tile in both kitchen and bath=4K
5. New paint inside=$1,500
6. Custom cabinets=$2,500
7. .5" granite, sink, fixtures, island=$1,000
8. Wrought Iron stairs and porch= $800
9. Repaired A/C= $400
10. Plumbing upgrades= $2,000
11. Electrical Upgrade= $1,200

Anyway, sold it for over 100K just a little over a year after I bought it when I took another job. (i.e. not a flip, thought I'd be there longterm and didn't want to deal with 45 mins of traffic each way)

It's not difficult to repair old homes, and my cousin has bought 2 McMansions. His chimney fell off his 8 year old house and through his roof during Gustav. He had to spend 11k replacing each window of his 8 year old man made lake house because the seals were done so poorly that each had mildew.

So we trade LP Gravy and Broome and get meth heads in return?

I see what you are getting at, and like the hypothetical, but this also seems like bait.