David,As a car guy, I'd say that even not running, if it's a mid-70s era two door and the body is in good shape, you could probably still get a couple thousand for it if you post somewhere like classiccars.com.  

I am currently interested in purchasing a city-owned property, but before I send the city a letter of interest I would like to see if anyone on BP has experience purchasing property from a city (Or government body) and what tips they may have.

From a mere labor stand point this seems inevitable as technology allow humans to create more output and in short time frames.

Habitat for Humanity?

Be careful in this... without leases and background checks, they sound like warm body tenants... they're there, but they aren't paying rents and they are likely to be professional tenants. 

Oh, that's right, except the other mishaps with no warning:Panic of early 1900'sGreat Depression (few decades later)Oil speculation in 70'sSavings and Loan '80'sTech company failures 90's[pulled from larouchepub.com]"the Dow Jones Industrial Average has dropped 1,677 points (18%) in 11 trading days, falling below the level it hit in the aftermath of Sept. 11"ANDa complete surprise and "panic" which no rational human being saw coming....

in fact, if you are directing renters and sellers to your website via craigslist, letters, etc, why not just move the sellers/renters links off the home page, since your marketing for this secondary market is directing them to an internal page.in your latest news section on some pages you mix listings with news articles (not good) but when you click on a news article, the sidebar widget separates between latest news and latest listings (good).skipping back to the sellers/renters/buyers pages, there is no call to action in the body.

Oh, and do you think the humans have a chance to come back and beat Watson on the final day of the show?

Every human being needs a place to live but not every one needs to run a business.

Im looking to develop small bodies of land, and make them "cool" with the upper echelon.