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Monopoly's Baltic Avenue is the absolute cheapest property

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Costing a measly sixty bucks, Baltic Avenue is the sad, neglected younger sibling of the entire board. Nobody excitedly lands on it hoping to build an empire, and its rent with a hotel barely covers the paper money it's printed on. It perfectly captures the bleak reality of cheap real estate: you buy it just to say you own something, but it will never actually make you rich.

Monopoly's Baltic Avenue is the absolute cheapest property
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