$1 Million Will Buy You an Entire West Virginia Town | NBC Nightly News

Sugar Grove, West Virginia - a town complete with 80 homes on 122 acres - is up for auction. It’s a former naval base that’s so remote your cell phone won’t even work.
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$1 Million Will Buy You an Entire West Virginia Town | NBC Nightly News

[@michellenine9486]

I would love to own my own town especially in WV 😉

[@pattythornton6615]

A beautiful state with real down to earth people

[@Harrygreen111]

So would l

[@markzylstra2947]

Rick probably offered $5 but he knew he was taking a big risk.

[@arlenebend8925]

Mark, who is Rick?

[@johnwilburn]

Hugely underrated comment.

[@geooothoudt5665]

The possibilities...

[@lindaharbin9158]

They should have opened up homes to our veterans and families

[@jimdandy1949]

I'm interested.where do I place my bidd

[@markwilson8118]

I would love this town and have ideas for the whole place

[@MatanuskaHIGH]

Id turn all the houses into grow rooms. 🤷‍♂️. Supply the east coast

[@ncavlleguy]

I don’t think so!!

[@aficianado100]

I would like to buy 2 towns and half a city.

[@jenniferwyatt7481]

Has someone bought it yet?

[@AgnesCongdon-xk8hr]

You still want to know?

[@keywestalert6329]

hey, ummm if any of you know how to bid on it! let me know! I got a mil. but I wanna buy a town just like this! I'm going to call it smallville!

[@stevesiverling4628]

Personally, I think people who want to setup their own municapility should buy out a town. I am not sure about if it works to buy up a town piece by piece. I don't know anyone who has been able to do that.

[@AgnesCongdon-xk8hr]

There are plenty of towns for sale in America. This parcel is not a town, not incorporated. It is only private property.

[@207522]

Apparently, NBC doesn't understand how auctions work. The title says "$1 Million Will Buy You an Entire West Virginia Town". Then they say that's just the starting bid. Obviously there is no way to get the property for only $1M if the bidding starts at $1M. :/

[@altcoin5631]

Fake news.

[@ajcongdon1610]

If no one else participated in the auction, one bidder could succeed. Would you agree: $4,010,009.90 is a lot less than the 1st auction winners' bids of over $10,000,000.00.

[@chitzzz1384]

​@@ajcongdon1610there should be at least two bidders

[@AgnesCongdon-xk8hr]

If no one else bidd, it was possible.

[@Harrygreen111]

Can l pay in instalments each month

[@chitzzz1384]

No internet What will you do there?

[@ajcongdon1610]

Maybe, the property does not have enough population or is not incorporated to be a town and is happy enough being a community.

[@ajcongdon1772]

Working in a coal mine

[@AgnesCongdon-xk8hr]

I can not keep a KZbin number.

[@mandysimmons2769]

What about Kim Baysinger? Didn't she try that?

[@vernondavis6095]

Pendleton county short hop west of Harrisonburg VA off us 33 been past there before beautiful location the navy had a listening station there why there is no cell phone signal

[@AgnesCongdon-xk8hr]

No cellphone service because there is no cell tower.

[@everett7360]

Hows about u make it a Forest again

[@_Chessa_]

Only 47 comments and six years ago, I gotta wonder, did anyone buy this entire town for a Million?

[@albinoguidedog]

I googled it and it sold for 4 million and it's future unclear.

[@_Chessa_]

@@albinoguidedog 4 million is quite a difference from 1 million, but that’s very interesting. Hope the plants reclaim it. Thanks for the comment! I don’t deserve it, but thank you and I appreciate for your researching and finding out the information. Now take some deserved emojis! 👍🍾🍰 is that too much? Apologies, I’m sometimes not aware if I’m over doing it with the comments. Have a good one.

[@AgnesCongdon-xk8hr]

​@@_Chessa_you have enough information now. It was not large and didn't enough population to be called a town. That was the only error in the video 📹.

[@_Chessa_]

@@AgnesCongdon-xk8hr I would love to look at how succession with plants happens in this town. I’m sure it’s spectacular seeing the small cracks of dirt fill in with weeds, flowers, grasses and trees, if there is no upkeep! Just a weird observation of mine, anyways. Thanks for the reply and have a good new year! ☺️

[@michellestrackprovince3962]

Or help cure everyone here

[@mikemike1602]

wasn't the movie The Hills Have Eyes filled there?

[@icefoxracing]

Pray Montana is for sale, zip code 59065, $660,000, own your own zip code.......just sayin'......

[@hambonebecracken9606]

Yeah but that's only five acres this land was 120 acres

[@ajcongdon1772]

We already own 10 acres in Montana and don't have to take care of the community infrastructure services.

[@AgnesCongdon-xk8hr]

​@@hambonebecracken9606 right on HAMBONE

[@AmieWonch-mw2xt]

1.5: mull the n

[@claysinacori7347]

Greedy people you got me veterans I can house out there that want to buy a house disabled veterans

[@AgnesCongdon-xk8hr]

Who says the owners are not a military veterans or disabled? And who are you whining about greed? Did you bid and pay for it?

[@tynao2029]

those Hills have Eyes

[@mattdreyer9086]

Blm will purchase it

[@AgnesCongdon-xk8hr]

Who is Blm and what will they purchase 🤔 👀 😳?