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This West Texas ghost town is on sale for $100K, but there's a catch

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Lobo is a tiny windswept ghost town in West Texas, some 60 miles northwest of art mecca Marfa.

According to a report by our media partners at The Dallas Morning News, little remains of the abandoned desert city: an old grocery store, a vacant motel and a boarded-up gas station. The town is now in the market for a new owner, drawing attention in Texas and beyond.

Alexander Bardorff, one of the owners, said a friend spotted a โ€œtown for saleโ€ sign while driving past Lobo in the late 1990s. Lobo became a place for the group to โ€œget away from the busy city life and relax in the country,โ€ he said.

But the German owners have a particular vision for the new owner.

โ€œWe are not just trying to make a profit,โ€ Bardorff told Texas Monthly. โ€œWe would like to find a group of people that want to do something interesting out there. Not necessarily what we did, but some idea.โ€

Click here to read the full report from our media partners at The Dallas Morning News.

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