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Abandoned House

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  1. lessherger (48 months ago | reply)

    that was once a beautiful home. I find it so sad when great places get abandoned. There is this place on my drive into work that was fantastic but the elderly parents passed away and the children don't want to live there but they can't agree to sell or for what price. So It's sat there for over 2years now and it's slowly becoming an eyesore. The house's value goes down, it gets broken into, vandalized and no one wants to buy it for anything- not even the large amount of property, or the shell of a once fantastic home. sigh. It happens a lot in Maine too. There was more than one place on my drive to work, though there more than likely the houses are taken back by the bank, and then they get burnt. Here in Mass most property is too valuable so eventually it gets sold..

  2. Cat Sidh (48 months ago | reply)

    It is sad.

    I actually used to live in that house, years ago. It wasn't in the best shape, then. The foundation needed repairs and the bathroom roof leaked. It wasn't past saving, though. Then it was bought and sold several times, and each time, it went further downhill. The last time, the woman who bought it gutted it and took the roof off the back addition, then just left it to rot.

    There are a lot of houses like that in my mom's neighborhood. The factories all shut down or moved out of the country, so the economy tanked. My mom's house is across the alley from this one, and even with a ton of improvements, it's worth less now than it was when she bought it 20 years ago. And that was before the housing market went kerplooie!

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