Here's How You Can Buy a Small Town

NEW YORK (MainStreet) -- Investing in stocks and bonds is chicken feed compared with the newest rage: investing in your own small town.

That's the idea behind an auction to buy a Montana town with its own trading post, wireless tower and main street.

A tiny Montana town with its own trading post, wireless tower and main street goes up for auction April 5.

Billed as the "Nation's Smallest Town," Buford, Mont., is on the auction block for April 5. The hope among the town's principal owner -- and sole resident -- is that a buyer will show up and buy Buford, lock, stock and barrel.

According to a "buyer's list," the town is small in stature but large in amenities, once you get your arms around the idea you're buying an entire town out West.