No landscape other than planted grass, no amenity area, no storm utilities (the property sheet drained to a ditch), no appliances, super low end fixtures, no perimeter fence, 8’ ceilings, all siding, no masonry facade and the city gave the property to the developer and waived impact fees.

In California there is a tax break for planting fruit or nut trees on your property, although it may only be for the tax value of the trees.

With all the developments you mentioned and with Denver affordability reaching a ceiling in much of the metro area, Elyrea/Swansea/Globeville is very much in the path of progress, but at the same time the smelting plants and refineries of ASARCO literally poisoned that area to death for many, many decades, making the soil extremely toxic. 

The addition of Supersonic's new aircraft plant in Melbourne should be another boost for the county adding 700 new high paying jobs at the plant alone.

Dry cleaning plant down the block violated env laws30.

I guess we just wanted to get our roots planted with a house hack but we have to make sure the numbers make sense first. 

@Vincent Plant It is weird but at least you can calculate the financial impact.

And we have more restaurants and hotels than a town out size normally would because if someone from Cherokee county Alabama wants to go out to eat a lot of times they will drive to Rome.We also have quite a bit of manufacturing here but it is fairly small, specialty manufacturing, there aren't any really large plants like there used to be. 

They offered to plant flowers but they advised me to get the flowers myself.

She was the cleanest tenant I ever had, and even planted beautiful flowers in the front of the house (Most Section 8 tenants aren't like that, but she was).