{"id":6390,"date":"2015-02-07T22:51:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T03:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=6390"},"modified":"2015-02-07T22:51:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T03:51:43","slug":"couples-can-buy-newark-land-for-1000-on-v-day-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/couples-can-buy-newark-land-for-1000-on-v-day-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Couples can buy Newark land for $1000 on V-Day 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Valentines-House.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Valentines-House-256x300.jpg\" alt=\"Valentine&#039;s House\" width=\"256\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Valentines-House-256x300.jpg 256w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Valentines-House-192x225.jpg 192w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Valentines-House.jpg 579w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a>I guess this isn&#8217;t as good a deal as <a href=\"http:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/news\/city-of-chicago-selling-vacant-lots-for-$1\/443991\/\">Chicago selling off land at $1 a lot<\/a> but Newark&#8217;s Valentine&#8217;s Day land sale still seems pretty darn good to me. According to the city&#8217;s website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ci.newark.nj.us\/government\/mayor\/live-newark\/\">Couples only can purchase a Newark land lot for $1000<\/a> from the city if they can afford to build a dwelling on it and are willing to live there for 5 years.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the terms and tell me what you think &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>A special land sale that Economic and Housing Development has organized for St. Valentine\u2019s Day &#8211; Saturday, 14 February 2015, 9:00AM &#8211; 12:00PM at Newark City Hall (920 Broad Street)<\/strong>. In the spirit of St. Valentine\u2019s Day, we are doing a sale of city lots exclusively to <strong>COUPLES<\/strong>. Transforming non-tax producing city owned lots to occupied, tax producing properties with new homes built on them. We will be selling 100 lots at <strong>$1,000<\/strong> a lot. This sale is <strong>NOT<\/strong> for developers or investors. The sale is exclusively for couples who are looking to live in Newark.<\/p>\n<h3>The rules are as follows:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>You must be a couple (straight or LGBT)<\/li>\n<li>Only one lot per couple<\/li>\n<li>Lots will be awarded on a \u201cfirst come, first served\u201d basis<\/li>\n<li>Lots will be sold for $1,000 each<\/li>\n<li>All final sales are subject to Municipal Council approval<\/li>\n<li>Buyers will be required to make a $500 down payment<\/li>\n<li>Buyers will be required to pay an additional $500 at closing<\/li>\n<li>Buyer is responsible for all closing costs<\/li>\n<li>Buyer must submit a City Planning Board approved site plan to close on the property<\/li>\n<li>Buyer must have a commitment letter from a financial institution AND\/OR proof of cash to cover the cost of the infill new construction to close on the property<\/li>\n<li>Construction must be completed within 18 months of closing<\/li>\n<li>Buyer must reside in the property for 5 years after issuance of C.O.<\/li>\n<li>Anyone from anywhere is eligible to participate except employees of the EHD Property Management Division<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess this isn&#8217;t as good a deal as Chicago selling off land at $1 a lot but Newark&#8217;s Valentine&#8217;s Day land sale still seems pretty darn good to me. According to the city&#8217;s website, Couples only can purchase a Newark land lot for $1000 from the city if they can afford to build a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/couples-can-buy-newark-land-for-1000-on-v-day-2015\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Couples can buy Newark land for $1000 on V-Day 2015&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,5,282,1215,16],"tags":[248,1747,204,600],"class_list":["post-6390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-government-trade","category-help","category-sustainability","category-transformation","tag-family","tag-land","tag-newark","tag-sustainable-community-development"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6390"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6397,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6390\/revisions\/6397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}