A Tiny Town in South Dakota Is Back on the Market

Six acres, a saloon, and a possibly haunted house: All of this could be yours for $250,000, a zest for self-governance, and a willingness to live at the southern edge of South Dakota. The tiny hamlet of Swett is up for sale again at a bargain-bin price, 16 months after its listing at $399,000 garnered international headlines and a number of written offers, which all fell through.

“Some of the types of individuals who have been interested in the past included people who wanted to be their own mayor, people who wanted to live off-grid,” real estate agent Stacie Montgomery told Rapid City Journal. (Reality TV show producers and would-be hunting-lodge owners also expressed curiosity.) ”It’s not often that you see an entire town for sale,” she said.