Childhood home of 'Ghostbusters' singer Ray Parker Jr. on market for $1,000

Those interested in buying a home where a celebrity grew up have a window of opportunity in Detroit.

The good news? The house is only $1,000 — but it's a major fixer-upper. The home in the Petoskey-Otsego neighborhood is for sale through the Detroit Land Bank Authority as a Own it Now property.

According to a report from Curbed Detroit, the property was the childhood home of Ray Parker Jr., the R&B singer most known for the "Ghostbusters" theme song. The address for the home matches one listed for the singer/songwriter in the book Home in Detroit: Where They Lived and a deed from 1963 that shows it was purchased by a Ray E. Parker Sr., according to Curbed Detroit.

The 2,342-square-foot home at 3780 Virginia Park has four bedrooms and two bathrooms. Photos of the property from the land bank show the floors covered in clutter, holes in the walls or pieces of tile and plaster missing altogether, among other issues within the space. A Google Maps street view from June 2019 shows the property completely overgrown and barely visible.

While Parker Jr. is best known for the catchy "Ghostbusters" theme song, the Detroit native got his start in the 1970s and '80s with local artists such as Gladys Knight, and as a guitarist with the Spinners. He left Detroit in 1973 to move to Los Angeles.

"All my relatives except me are in Detroit. … It's just a good feeling," Parker told the Free Press in 2006. "Detroit is a good place to be, because Detroit is always proud of the guys who made it. And it was a place that broke records — I remember a lot of people saying you've got to leave to be famous, but (1978's) ‘Jack and Jill' broke right on WJLB."

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The land bank requires anyone who purchases the home to rehab the home and live in it or demolish it in compliance with city codes within six to nine months of closing the sale.

Meredith Spelbring is a news intern with the Detroit Free Press. Reach her at mspelbring@freepress.com or on Twitter @mere0415.