News, Canadian Town Sells $10 Plots of Land (building, costs, houses)

[JD59]

Got an extra ten bucks? If so, you, too, could be the owner of a sparkling new home in Reston, Manitoba, a rural prairie town in Southern Manitoba bordering Saskatchewan on the west and North Dakota on the south.

In an effort to jump on the oil boom in that part of the country, officials are once again selling undeveloped land for a mere $10, an initiative they first started in 2010. Back then they had 14 lots for sale, 11 of which have houses built on them today, economic development officer Tanis Chalmers told ABC News .

Canadian Town Sells $10 Plots of Land | ABC News Blogs - Yahoo!

[davecj]

But then you would have to live in Canada

[oregonwoodsmoke]

I haven't seen their terms, but a lot of those "free" land deals require you to build a house. So, you go into an area where a house costs $30,000 and you get a free lot and must spend $100,000 building a new house on it.

Doesn't look like much of a deal to me.