Toomsboro, Georgia, Town Of 700, Is Latest Small Town For Sale

Buying a small town just keeps getting easier.

A developer who owns most of the Georgia town of Toomsboro is putting his properties up for sale, according to the Associated Press. The town has 700 residents and features a florist, a convenience store, a custom cabinet shop and a post office, making it an ideal fit for a production company seeking a set for a movie or music video. That's according to its owner at least.

Oddly enough, Toomsboro isn't the first small town to be put up for sale in recent months. Don Sammons, the sole resident of Buford, Wyoming, put his house -- and effectively the whole town -- up for sale in March. Then Pham Dinh Nguyen, a Vietnamese businessman, bought the town for $900,000 earlier this month.

Since purchasing Buford, billed as America’s smallest town, Nguyen has become a sensation on Vietnamese media and social networks. He bought the town on his first trip to the U.S. ever, securing himself a small piece of the American Dream.

Don't worry, though, there are still parts of the American Dream up for sale elsewhere. In Pray, Montana, Barbara Walker, who owns the small collection of buildings that make up the town, put them up for sale for $1.4 million in February, according to the Billings Gazette. Walker decided to sell the town after the deaths of her husband and father-in-law and years trying to revitalize the city.

It's not just no-name small towns that are going up for sale, however. Super fans can buy Henry River Mill Village, where scenes from the blockbuster franchise The Hunger Games were filmed, for $1.4 million, according to the Guardian. The town's owner, Wade Shepherd, said he’s just getting "too many visitors" thanks to the movies' notoriety.

Selling small towns isn't unique to the U.S. In France, the village of Courbefy went up for sale in February for the relatively low price of $436,370 and in Italy, the region of Abruzzo went up for sale last April.

Comments

[frankcaprafan]

12:28 AM on 05/01/2012

Perhaps one of the Walmart Earls can pick this up. He can enclose it and keep its inhabitants as pets.

[douginflorida1]

11:39 PM on 04/30/2012

They have to lower the price or consider changing the name from ChildrenoftheCornville

[importantfacts1]

10:45 PM on 04/30/2012

Maybe Kim Bassinger will buy this one too.

[El Dee Bee]

06:32 AM on 05/01/2012

Ya took the words out of my mouth. Brilliant minds think alike. Yeah, maybe she can add to her "empire".

[Gene Hardwick]

10:38 PM on 04/30/2012

perfect for sleeper-cells...scary

[pnllsprkf]

10:32 PM on 04/30/2012

what legally constitues a town

[palomino78]

10:25 PM on 04/30/2012

Is there a welfare office too?

[averagezoe]

09:21 PM on 04/30/2012

One of my yet unrealized dreams - buy a town, populate it with like-minded people and live happily ever after. BUT NOT IN GEORGIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[wayne123]

09:15 PM on 04/30/2012

Sorry i wouldn't buy the whole state for a dime.

[johnfernau]

01:28 AM on 05/01/2012

Why, because of possible 'enlightened' ideas that you feel a bias towards a 'lesser' state? From the attitude I get from yours and others that they wouldn't spend a dime or dream of living in the south. Great. We are tired of the enlightened coming here and trying to make it into the nirvana that they came/ran from. Because God only knows that wherever you live has got to be better than here and please don't lower yourself to moving. If wherever you come from in both ideas and ideals is so great why are they so lacking that they won't stand the light of day to improve apparently a backward and stupid area.

[wayne123]

07:14 AM on 05/01/2012

First you have no idea where i come from. My residence is now Florida and it needs a lot of improvement, but from what i have seen of Georgia it would be like putting money into an already bad investment. I actually live in Thailand now, now this is paradise, very low crime, cost of living about 1/10th of the states, friendliest people in the world, never cold, many things to see and do. And yes i do feel a bias against Georgia and i do consider it a lesser state.

[interject]

08:51 PM on 04/30/2012

I'll bid a $1.25.

[Celeste5793]

08:23 PM on 04/30/2012

so if you buy it does that mean all taxes collecled from property values is yours or do you own all the property?

[whiterabbit19762]

08:27 PM on 04/30/2012

It means you own all the property and have to pay taxes on all of it to the county seat.

[Celeste5793]

08:38 PM on 04/30/2012

yes after they who live on it pay taxes to me

[wayne123]

09:16 PM on 04/30/2012

Guess they are looking for someone who can afford to pay property taxes.

[simzillyjp]

08:28 PM on 04/30/2012

Do you even pay taxes at that rate?

[jpfmtka]

08:08 PM on 04/30/2012

LMAO... I live in Georgia due to a temporary job assignment and there is no amount of money anyone could PAY me to assume ownership of a town down here.

[amh9912]

09:42 PM on 04/30/2012

GOOD, The difference in a yankee and a dam yankee???? yankee comes to the south and visits a dam yankee stays

[LINYdude]

09:58 PM on 04/30/2012

Now by rights I'm a Yankee, and I think that's funnier than hell. But I'm not a damn yankee, cause I lived down south for a while, but I didn't stay.

[lawdog1]

08:00 PM on 04/30/2012

Come guys lets chip in think about it we can take turns Mayor, Chief of Police, Head of Public works, etc. We can even take turns flipping the parties around year to year just like the pros do. Things like this are only come around once in a life time; lets go for it!

[sciencelove]

08:42 PM on 04/30/2012

You may be on to something..

[wayne123]

09:17 PM on 04/30/2012

Smoking something in a padded room ?

[lawdog1]

09:36 PM on 04/30/2012

sure if u say so.

[Judy Stern]

07:31 PM on 04/30/2012

Is it a town of obama-tyoes ?

[no dash american]

12:53 AM on 05/01/2012

what is that exactly?

[klasakt]

07:30 PM on 04/30/2012

I am getting old ... I could not find a price for the town anywere. Do I need new glasses, or did they forget that vital piece of info?

[wayne123]

09:17 PM on 04/30/2012

Probably overpriced and they are afraid to print it.

[hereisallie]

10:23 PM on 04/30/2012

I found it in another article...2.5 million. It said that some of the properties are privately owned and are not included.

[klasakt]

10:43 PM on 04/30/2012

Thanks! :)

[artorius317]

07:02 PM on 04/30/2012

I'd love to buy a small town, lol.