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Asking price seems rather high. I'm sure you could find an abandoned building in Montana and turn it into a bar for far less than $225k.
I've always wondered about the data missing in Google Maps. For instance, when you go to Ingomar, MT and look at street view, the car got to the entrance of the town and the data just stops. https://goo.gl/maps/WVTAChPsBUiRjnoX9 Did the camera die? Did the car get a flat? Did someone forget to turn something on?
I'm not surprised this is their approach; I am surprised that this many years later a street so close to their headquarters could still be invisible to them.
With the onset of Starlink, I expect such locations could experience a population boom. With urban housing prices skyrocketing (demand exceeding supply = bidding war), many are discovering the only thing they need to live where they actually want to is reliable high-speed low-latency internet. The land is cheap ($150,000 for 321 acres in Ingomar, Montana), the region attractive (drove around there this summer, very n…
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In Montana, you're paying for the liquor license. It's not uncommon to see hole-in-the-wall bars in 2000 person towns go for $1 million. They are quota-ed and similar to the NYC taxi medallion system.
Does that actually recoup? Or are they buying those licenses to use in more populated areas? (curious if they are tied to the town or not)
This place isn't just in the middle of nowhere, it's in Eastern Montana, not even the nice part of Montana (the west). This place shouldn't exist. A mildly interesting story, but small town Montana is a rough existence even if you live in pretty part. I would not recommend anyone buying this place unless you don't mind throwing away $200k on it. Edit: All the down votes are coming from people who have never been to E…
Please don't cross into regional slurs. "This place shouldn't exist" is a step into that, and we need users not to go there here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
well, for sure the owner would have town's monopoly in the bar business.
Monopoly? So... do we need to split up the bar, for a fair market?
It'd be hard to earn a living off 13 other people.
Wow, I have lived here in Montana for 33 years and I have never heard of Ingomar. Don't let the article fool you. There are probably at least 100-200 other similar bars for around the same price in towns which are relatively close to the same size.