Man Buys Entire Abandoned Mexican Town for $8,000 on Facebook Marketplace, Immediately Regrets It After Realizing There Are 47 HOA Rules Written in Ancient Cursive
[Title: Man Buys Entire Abandoned Mexican Town for $8,000 on Facebook Marketplace, Immediately Regrets It After Realizing There Are 47 HOA Rules Written in Ancient Cursive]
AITA for laughing at this dude from Idaho who thought he'd scored the ultimate "live like a king in Mexico" hack by snatching up a ghost town on Facebook Marketplace for the price of a used Honda Civic? Turns out the previous owner, a 90-year-old abuela, ghosted him after cashing the check—but not before leaving a 47-page HOA covenant in colonial-era Spanish cursive with a clause requiring all residents to maintain an "active, vibrantly colored garden gnome population." TL;DR: Dude is now legally responsible for repopulating a dusty ghost town with gnomes, and his wife is threatening divorce because she "didn't sign up for an unpaid gnome rancher gig in Mexico." Honestly, the real crime here is that the gnomes will probably unionize faster than the town's water gets reconnected.