One who brings around shady, untrusted individuals; one who magnetizes to such low lifescum; One who is always around an unwanted crowd of turds; A real turd magnet.
Frank: "Why do those guys keep coming around? Their fucking douchebags."
A Shackteau is a humble, weather-beaten, structurally questionable shelter located in a spectacular or highly coveted place—Wales, Jackson Hole, Sun Valley, Crested Butte, coastal Maine, the Alps—where the building itself may be worth almost nothing, but the dirt, view, access, and mythology make it absurdly valuable.
In use:
Shackteâu - We thought it was an abandoned shed until the realtor called it a rare alpine Shackteâu with unobstructed views and listed it for $2 million.