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    Vacant Houses: By Danny Mendlow and Zack Mitchell
    Vacant Houses: By Danny Mendlow and Zack Mitchell
    Vacant Houses: By Danny Mendlow and Zack Mitchell
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    Vacant Houses: By Danny Mendlow and Zack Mitchell

    By Danny Mendlow

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    "Vacant Houses" is a dystopian, science fiction satire set in the future about the housing market, the working class and aliens. Plenty of aliens too.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMitchell Mendlow
    Release dateJul 6, 2012
    ISBN9781301721160
    Vacant Houses: By Danny Mendlow and Zack Mitchell

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      Vacant Houses - Danny Mendlow

      Vacant Houses

      By: Danny Mendlow and Zack Mitchell

      Copyright 2012 Mitchell Mendlow

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      VACANT HOUSES

      by: Danny Mendlow and Zack Mitchell

      The houses were all empty. This was no surprise. All houses were empty. That’s what houses were after all, just ask anyone... empty structures in which one could invest. They were sound investments though, sometimes. All depended on that finicky little thing called The Market. Everyone knew that if you got in at the right time in the right market you could surely be in for a sound return on your investment. At least that’s what everyone said they knew. Not too many folks seemed to be getting sound returns these days, or have anything to invest. But they all knew that as soon as they did have something, they’d surely be the first to find a good market to invest in, at just the right time, and get one of those sound returns they knew so much about.

      Nobody really knew what would happen should they get that sound return, but it clearly meant things would get better for them and their family. It would be pretty damned impossible for things to get much worse. It was hard work

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