12 Dirt-Cheap Arkansas Towns Where Houses Are So Cheap You'll Think It's a Scam
Forgotten Heartland
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In Lepanto, Arkansas, public records show a three-bedroom house that sold for $25,000. Two smaller houses in the same town sold for $5,000 and $4,000. Yet the median home in the county still tops $100,000. So how can a whole house cost less than a used pickup on the same map?
This countdown goes through 12 towns in the cotton country of eastern Arkansas, between the Mississippi River levees and Crowley's Ridge. We visit a 1,000-year-old Native American town site tied to the Spanish explorers of 1541, the storefront where sharecroppers founded the Southern Tenant Farmers Union in 1934, the New Deal colony where Johnny Cash grew up, a planned company town built around a square, and a city that lost its Air Force base in 1992.
We also explain why even livable houses sell so cheap here: machines replaced the hands that picked cotton, steel mills brought jobs but needed far fewer workers, and the towns kept losing people census after census. And we do the household math on what a $25,000 house really costs once you add the roof, the wiring and the drive to work.
Chapters
0:00 The $25,000 house in Lepanto
1:56 #12 Keiser
3:01 #11 Luxora
3:55 #10 Turrell
4:51 #9 Parkin
5:47 #8 Tyronza
6:56 #7 Marked Tree
7:59 #6 Earle
9:12 #5 Wilson
10:12 #4 Dyess
11:23 Why even good houses sell cheap
13:36 #3 Osceola
14:47 #2 Helena-West Helena
16:05 #1 Blytheville
17:30 One street at dusk
18:27 Two markets on one block
20:38 The heritage economy
21:32 What a $25,000 house really costs
Would you buy a house here for that price? Tell me in the comments.
This video is for informational and historical purposes only and is not financial or investment advice. Sale prices come from public records and listings and change over time. Verify any property with a local agent and an inspection before buying.
12 Dirt-Cheap Arkansas Towns Where Houses Are So Cheap You'll Think It's a Scam
Forgotten Heartland
815 views
In Lepanto, Arkansas, public records show a three-bedroom house that sold for $25,000. Two smaller houses in the same town sold for $5,000 and $4,000. Yet the median home in the county still tops $100,000. So how can a whole house cost less than a used pickup on the same map?
This countdown goes through 12 towns in the cotton country of eastern Arkansas, between the Mississippi River levees and Crowley's Ridge. We visit a 1,000-year-old Native American town site tied to the Spanish explorers of 1541, the storefront where sharecroppers founded the Southern Tenant Farmers Union in 1934, the New Deal colony where Johnny Cash grew up, a planned company town built around a square, and a city that lost its Air Force base in 1992.
We also explain why even livable houses sell so cheap here: machines replaced the hands that picked cotton, steel mills brought jobs but needed far fewer workers, and the towns kept losing people census after census. And we do the household math on what a $25,000 house really costs once you add the roof, the wiring and the drive to work.
Chapters
0:00 The $25,000 house in Lepanto
1:56 #12 Keiser
3:01 #11 Luxora
3:55 #10 Turrell
4:51 #9 Parkin
5:47 #8 Tyronza
6:56 #7 Marked Tree
7:59 #6 Earle
9:12 #5 Wilson
10:12 #4 Dyess
11:23 Why even good houses sell cheap
13:36 #3 Osceola
14:47 #2 Helena-West Helena
16:05 #1 Blytheville
17:30 One street at dusk
18:27 Two markets on one block
20:38 The heritage economy
21:32 What a $25,000 house really costs
Would you buy a house here for that price? Tell me in the comments.
This video is for informational and historical purposes only and is not financial or investment advice. Sale prices come from public records and listings and change over time. Verify any property with a local agent and an inspection before buying.