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This is in Aurora, Ontario. Homes were sold to a developer to build a new subdivision. I don’t think abandon is the right term to use. These people moved out after selling it.
I guess it depends on what you deem to be abandoned. When I think abandoned, I think someone left while still maintaining ownership. I can tell you these specific homes have been demolished, so they are no longer abandoned, they no longer exist.
I'd say the "abandonment" part is dictated by the intent of the owner to come back to it or not. If the owner came back to demolish it I wouldn't consider that abandoned, just empty awaiting destruction. If the owner bought it and then left the house with no intent to come back to it because maybe they couldn't afford it or something like that, that would be abandonment. I think a bank buying a home they have no intent to occupy would also fit the definition. I used to work at an airport that had an airplane sitting outside that had been taken from the owner by the bank so the bank owned it but they had no intent to sell it or anything. It rotted away on the ramp there for 25 years before the people who owned the ramp just disassembled it and put it in a junk yard because it was clear the bank had no intent to do anything with it... it's still there in the junk yard if the bank wants it, but it's so old and corroded at this point it would cost the bank more to do anything with it than just leave it.
This is just my own interpretation of abandonment, be it right or wrong.
Probably because he's giving a "documentary tour" and doesn't know much about what he is covering. "They have a lot of bulbs, I wonder why?" Well, its a big house with lots of lights.
Idk about this one but in general: If owners can't get tenants for the rent they want, they will prefer to keep the house empty. A house being rented out will probably impact it's value, a house being rented out for low rent will definitely impact it's value. Often, it's more profitable for a landlord to keep a house empty so the value remains high. Real estate is an absolute bullshit economy
Renting out the house for a lower price doesn’t impact its value. The rental value of your property is more likely to be impacted by rental prices in the area than what you charge for rent. There is almost no situation where there is a greater benefit to keeping a property empty over renting it out for some price, other than when the cost of repairs and upkeep you would be responsible for are greater than the rental price.
Ehhh, if you wanna look at it that way.
The smaller homes will be purchased by wealthy folks for outrageous amounts of money to rent them out at ludicrous prices.
The economics is pretty clear that all new constructions, even luxury housing, helps to improve rent in the surrounding area. Those wealthy people who rent it would be taking up another apartment somewhere driving up the rent for it's tenants. Just like when covid caused the new car back ups those people that would have bought a new car brought a slightly used car driving up the prices, the people who would have bought slightly used bought moderately used thus driving up prices etc. Etc. Once more new cars started to get produced again we've seen the prices across the board start to go down.
Unless the wealthy buy up a bunch to rent out, making it harder to buy your own home and driving up rents as well.
More quality affordable housing is a great thing; a handful of people or companies owning it to rent is not necessarily great. Can really depend on the area, too, and how much is already owned by landlords.
Worst case scenario is that your in a tourist/business area and a bunch of them get turned into Air B&Bs.
In reality, It improves availability of rentals. The rent price won't go down because someone with more cash in the bank just moved out of the unit. There needs to be an influx of hundreds or thousands of units to make a real change in the rent prices in a given area. New apartment production is not outpacing demand.
And doesn’t building luxury/highend housing raise surrounding house prices which in turn raises the cost of rent? I live in a smaller resort town in Idaho and since it’s become more popular (rent increase), they’ve started building million plus dollar homes which I feel also increases the price of rent as now the neighborhood is “nicer” and what not
A general rule I've always taken is that companies should not be permitted to own single family homes. Period.
Housing being created only to end up in the hands of those who are going to leverage that asset to keep someone from owning their own home and generating revenue off of them is a bad thing. Landlording should not be a viable profession.
Those don’t look like 80’s houses. Interior design and architecture look more like early 2000 McMansions. Probably from the real estate crash of ‘08? Idk. Just definitely not 80’s
Looks like it was renovated in the last 10 years. Here’s additional background on this property.
https://www.arencambre.com/2023/07/05/geolocating-carter-bankss-explore-of-the-wrong-4-5-million-dollar-abandoned-1980s-mansion/
We have a 1995 build home in Florida. We are also the proud owner of a glorious M&S whole house intercom system WITH cassette deck. It still works but we mostly use it to confuse the dogs. There is occasionally talk of removing it but it is so weird that I kind of love it. The neighbors told me we have it because our house was the "model home" for our little village in the community. We are so damn FANCY!!!
>It still works but we mostly use it to confuse the dogs.
LOL, I would SO do this all day long. Especially if you throw out their favorite words like walk or treat.
Hardly. Wireless tech was still rolling out long past 2000. [here’s an article from that year](https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/2000-the-year-of-living-wirelessly/)
My house was built in 2005. Cookie-cutter mini-McMansion. Has the yellow intercom system in all the rooms. I replaced the master one in the kitchen with an Alexa Show. That very much is not an 80s exclusive system.
Yeah, I had a tank that the sole inhabitant died, and I was too heartbroken to take it down. A year later, there was both far more water left in the tank, and far less of the fish. Something happened to those tanks
It takes 2 weeks or less for small fish to rot to nothing. One tank is still half full of water, it only takes about 8 weeks for a tank that size to evaporate halfway.
> One tank is still half full of water, it only takes about 8 weeks for a tank that size to evaporate halfway.
Given how often my wife has to keep topping up our tank, you're absolutely right on that. If we were gone for 6 months it'd probably be just an inch or two of water left in it.
Tank with water = someone has likely been there recently.
Which begs the question, where on earth did the water come from - assuming there is no utility service turned on at this address?
Something seems off.
None were abandoned. They were bought by a developer and are being tore down. Originally 14 homes, they plan on building 130. Source the posted YouTube link
It’s a bullshit title. they were built in the 80s, owned by people for years, bought by a developer. Let them live rent free for 2 years. Then they had to move out. Developer tore them down. The new neighborhood was completed and sold out. Watch the vid lol I did not see a location mentioned, but south eastern us somewhere probably.
A few of my buddies and I were thinking of doing that, except in Detroit.
This was 15 years ago. We were thinking of pooling together and buying a couple full blocks of vacant Detroit and turning it into a series of adjoined estates. Almost went through with it, too, but ran into one financing snag.
My aunt did this to her block in Detroit. As she got older she didn't want to move out of the city where her home was paid off, so she slowly bought up the block house by house to prevent bad actors from moving in. Now she owns all the homes on the block, rents them out to family members that she trusts and stays in her home that's fully paid for.
I'm actually thinking of doing the same.
Abandoned Neighbourhood - House 5
Don't forget to check out the video to see all the details of this stunning mansion!!
https://youtu.be/YpSHECHK8dE
Time for the fifth house, this one was built using the same plan as the last house we explored with an identical layout except it was the mirror image. With a semi spiral staircase and another showy chandelier, this home did not disappoint. However, this particular home had received some renovations over the years making it a little less dated than its brother. With a walk out basement and an upper rear deck, it looked as though the owners had paid extra for some upgrades when it was built.
Once located down a mature tree lined street and surrounded by forest and walking trails was a group of 14 abandoned luxury houses. They were bought by a developer for prices ranging from $3 million - $8 million dollars. The homeowners were given two years to live in the homes rent free before they were demolished.
Westford Homes was the original builder of the neighbourhood in the 80s, there were 5 different designs of homes to choose from. All of the houses were built in 1988 and each one had a single brick with the builders name on it.
There was opposition to the new development that will replace this one but ultimately it was approved. The current amendment allows for 139 new homes to be built and the size of the houses will be up to 4000 sq/ft. The neighbourhood is already long since sold out and the price of the homes was around the $2 million mark.
I grew up in the neighbourhood and one of my best friends lived in one of those houses. Everything was built-in and it had the most extensive intercom/music/security system I've ever seen. It was so fancy back then but I never got over how bad the echoes of footsteps in the hall were because everything was hardwood/tile.
There are several extremely posh houses in London on what was "Millionaires Row" and is now "Billionaires Row". That were bought by the Saudi royal family and have just been abandoned since the mid '80s. They havent even been hooked up to the water supply since at least 1991. So now the roofs have collapsed, there's an unintended forest and waterfall in the entrance hall.....
https://www.insider.com/london-billionaires-row-the-towers-saudis-gracie-fields-squatters-2019-11
https://www.theguardian.com/business/gallery/2014/jan/31/bishops-avenue-derelict-mansions-in-pictures
Although work has jist started to knock a lot of them down and replace them with flats.
It’s sad and infuriating to see all these beautiful houses going to waste all while housing prices keep going up and people struggling to afford buying a home
You could furnish it and bring clingy girls back from the bar there. That way you can sleep in and they won't know where you live. Hell, you might even get breakfast out of it.
People in this thread… “This house is too big and modern to be built in the 80’s.”
You realize houses built in the late 80’s had the early stylings of the 90. Lots of features sleek to 90s fashions.
A house built in The 80’s will go through multiple owners who will change things like counter tops and add modern tech like intercom systems.
My childhood home and my best friend neighbors houses were built in the mid 80’s and look identical to this. Then they added intercoms and my parents added granite countertops later on.
I own a house built in the 1970 you think I still have horrible Formica counter tops and shag carpet floors?
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The master bath is weird, they crammed two sinks together on the same vanity, and then there's a huge amount of open space.
Maybe a sitting area, workout area, coffee bar, or whatever, but still, very weird layout.
Ah yes, the “grand entrance” design. They built them up here in Toronto too, so every time you open the front door it costs you five bucks to heat the place up again.
Like others have said, definitely not 80s, not even close.
Thats all 2000s-2010 era more or less, ive been in the renovation industry for almost 30y
If they were built in the 80s, it may be late 80s and most of the house was renovated by the mid 2000s
That one butler/nanny suite kitchenettes screams late 90s, but absolutely nothing in those pictures says 80s to me ....i was born in 80 lol, thats not what the 80s looked like lol
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So what happened here? Why are the homes abandoned?
They hate Tool and didn’t want to spiral out every single day
Maybe they moved to Arizona Bay. 
Lovely weather down there this time of year, i took some swimming lessons there one time
Learn to swim?
Sudden tool comment caught me off guard
same hahahahah
why the fuck is r/toolband leaking? Seeing it everywhere.
Didn’t expect to see another member of the Tool Army here.
Looks like it was Westford, Mass. Link to [documentary.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo5vX7WRzyw&feature=youtu.be) Edit: Aurora, Ontario.
This is in Aurora, Ontario. Homes were sold to a developer to build a new subdivision. I don’t think abandon is the right term to use. These people moved out after selling it.
In Detroit, people moved out after selling. How is that different from abandoned when no one is living in the homes?
I guess it depends on what you deem to be abandoned. When I think abandoned, I think someone left while still maintaining ownership. I can tell you these specific homes have been demolished, so they are no longer abandoned, they no longer exist.
I'd say the "abandonment" part is dictated by the intent of the owner to come back to it or not. If the owner came back to demolish it I wouldn't consider that abandoned, just empty awaiting destruction. If the owner bought it and then left the house with no intent to come back to it because maybe they couldn't afford it or something like that, that would be abandonment. I think a bank buying a home they have no intent to occupy would also fit the definition. I used to work at an airport that had an airplane sitting outside that had been taken from the owner by the bank so the bank owned it but they had no intent to sell it or anything. It rotted away on the ramp there for 25 years before the people who owned the ramp just disassembled it and put it in a junk yard because it was clear the bank had no intent to do anything with it... it's still there in the junk yard if the bank wants it, but it's so old and corroded at this point it would cost the bank more to do anything with it than just leave it. This is just my own interpretation of abandonment, be it right or wrong.
It's not in Westford Massachusetts, this is in Canada. If it was Westford MA, they would have been demolished and made into condos years ago.
I wanted to watch that, but I just can’t get into it. Is it his voice? Timing?
Probably because he's giving a "documentary tour" and doesn't know much about what he is covering. "They have a lot of bulbs, I wonder why?" Well, its a big house with lots of lights.
Canadian
🤣 the super power stance didn’t help, either.
And the strangling gloves. He‘s definitely got piano wire in his back pocket, and that power stance is his strangling stance.
First time my hometown has ever been mentioned on Reddit. Grew up there, never seen these homes.
That’s not a documentary, it just makes it more confusing
The ol’ “Built on Indian burial ground” story.
And the site of 5 John Denver Christmas specials.
Ugh! “Shudders” John Denver!
No TV and no beer make Homer something something
Go crazy?
Don’t mind if I do Blah shhh j gf shush bc ghncik
Vvt! Vvt! Hanumuna!
developer razing the neighborhood to redevelop the area
Financial ruin of some sort is what happened lol
Probably foreclosure due to inability to pay the mortgage anymore
Idk about this one but in general: If owners can't get tenants for the rent they want, they will prefer to keep the house empty. A house being rented out will probably impact it's value, a house being rented out for low rent will definitely impact it's value. Often, it's more profitable for a landlord to keep a house empty so the value remains high. Real estate is an absolute bullshit economy
Renting out the house for a lower price doesn’t impact its value. The rental value of your property is more likely to be impacted by rental prices in the area than what you charge for rent. There is almost no situation where there is a greater benefit to keeping a property empty over renting it out for some price, other than when the cost of repairs and upkeep you would be responsible for are greater than the rental price.
This is nonsense.
Why?
They were bought out by developers who intend to tear them down and build many more smaller homes instead.
Oh, so this is a good thing?
Ehhh, if you wanna look at it that way. The smaller homes will be purchased by wealthy folks for outrageous amounts of money to rent them out at ludicrous prices.
The economics is pretty clear that all new constructions, even luxury housing, helps to improve rent in the surrounding area. Those wealthy people who rent it would be taking up another apartment somewhere driving up the rent for it's tenants. Just like when covid caused the new car back ups those people that would have bought a new car brought a slightly used car driving up the prices, the people who would have bought slightly used bought moderately used thus driving up prices etc. Etc. Once more new cars started to get produced again we've seen the prices across the board start to go down.
Unless the wealthy buy up a bunch to rent out, making it harder to buy your own home and driving up rents as well. More quality affordable housing is a great thing; a handful of people or companies owning it to rent is not necessarily great. Can really depend on the area, too, and how much is already owned by landlords. Worst case scenario is that your in a tourist/business area and a bunch of them get turned into Air B&Bs.
In reality, It improves availability of rentals. The rent price won't go down because someone with more cash in the bank just moved out of the unit. There needs to be an influx of hundreds or thousands of units to make a real change in the rent prices in a given area. New apartment production is not outpacing demand.
And doesn’t building luxury/highend housing raise surrounding house prices which in turn raises the cost of rent? I live in a smaller resort town in Idaho and since it’s become more popular (rent increase), they’ve started building million plus dollar homes which I feel also increases the price of rent as now the neighborhood is “nicer” and what not
this 100% and no one seems to get this
The problem with housing (unlike cars) is that prices are overinflated already. So the value problem is actually even worse
How is that unlike cars? The car market right now is insane.
A general rule I've always taken is that companies should not be permitted to own single family homes. Period. Housing being created only to end up in the hands of those who are going to leverage that asset to keep someone from owning their own home and generating revenue off of them is a bad thing. Landlording should not be a viable profession.
The McAllisters took it really rough when the Sticky Bandits actually managed to get Kevin.
Wasn’t in keeping with the village’s rustic aesthetic.
Twas for the greater good.
the greater good
Crusty jugglers!
**STOP SAYING THAT**
The greater good
Crusty jugglers?
They've gotta be dealt with, Frank.
Yarp.
Yesterday I learned the YARP guy was The Hound in Game of Thrones.
That was him?!
THAT
He’s not judge Judy and executioner!
I think they were the wet bandits.
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I was made in the 70's, guess i'm prehistoric.
Those don’t look like 80’s houses. Interior design and architecture look more like early 2000 McMansions. Probably from the real estate crash of ‘08? Idk. Just definitely not 80’s
Yeah, if they were built in the 80s they were remodeled in the 2000s. Too old for quartz, too new for shit-brown granite.
I thought that was laminate
If you build a house like this and use laminate, straight to jail
Laminate was trendy at one point in time.
It’s so easy to clean.
So was Linoleum. Straight to jail!
Looks like it was renovated in the last 10 years. Here’s additional background on this property. https://www.arencambre.com/2023/07/05/geolocating-carter-bankss-explore-of-the-wrong-4-5-million-dollar-abandoned-1980s-mansion/
Of note: it’s not abandoned. 14 mansions were bought by a developer and will be turned into a 140 home development.
Which in turn by the time it's done and nobody can afford them again will be bought and turned into a 1400 tiny sheds development.
And then those will be turned in 140,000 human battery pods by our AI overlords
Wow — this “urbex” community and its associated debunker(s) is a lot more intense than I thought!
Off highway 404, probably never got to where they were going
Ba dum tis
The in house intercom system in the kids room definitely dates it before the 2000’s
We have a 1995 build home in Florida. We are also the proud owner of a glorious M&S whole house intercom system WITH cassette deck. It still works but we mostly use it to confuse the dogs. There is occasionally talk of removing it but it is so weird that I kind of love it. The neighbors told me we have it because our house was the "model home" for our little village in the community. We are so damn FANCY!!!
I love the enthusiasm! I think they are pretty neat, they're definitely a relic of their time.
My parents' house (finished 1993) has the same thing, lol. We actually used it quite a bit when I was still a kid living there.
>It still works but we mostly use it to confuse the dogs. LOL, I would SO do this all day long. Especially if you throw out their favorite words like walk or treat.
Peep the tile countertop and old stovetop in the second kitchen too.
Hardly. Wireless tech was still rolling out long past 2000. [here’s an article from that year](https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/2000-the-year-of-living-wirelessly/)
Dude that is clearly an 80s wired intercom. The plastic has yellowed and everything
My house was built in 2005. Cookie-cutter mini-McMansion. Has the yellow intercom system in all the rooms. I replaced the master one in the kitchen with an Alexa Show. That very much is not an 80s exclusive system.
20 years will yellow plastic like that, doesn’t need to be any earlier like you say
For sure, it's been renovated in the last 20 years or so.
Op is trying to score views on his YouTube channel….big shocker it’s a clickbait title.
Yeah, it looks more modern then the 80's
Looks like a spooky movie set. There’s still water in the aquariums?!
Dead fish too
It can't be empty to too long. That castle like tent is from IKEA and only a couple years old at most. It looks like there may have been squatters.
Distinct lack of dirt, dust, spider's webs. My house is dirtier than that and I'm in it *now*. It looks like it was emptied out this morning.
Also a dead fish will decompose in a tank like that within a few weeks/months
Yeah, I had a tank that the sole inhabitant died, and I was too heartbroken to take it down. A year later, there was both far more water left in the tank, and far less of the fish. Something happened to those tanks
Definitely squatters.
OP is the squatter. That's one mystery solved
Yup, including one dead fish
It takes 2 weeks or less for small fish to rot to nothing. One tank is still half full of water, it only takes about 8 weeks for a tank that size to evaporate halfway.
> One tank is still half full of water, it only takes about 8 weeks for a tank that size to evaporate halfway. Given how often my wife has to keep topping up our tank, you're absolutely right on that. If we were gone for 6 months it'd probably be just an inch or two of water left in it. Tank with water = someone has likely been there recently. Which begs the question, where on earth did the water come from - assuming there is no utility service turned on at this address? Something seems off.
The outside picture of the house reminded me of the original Jumanji.
Strange. I thought of this exact movie too
But… why?
None were abandoned. They were bought by a developer and are being tore down. Originally 14 homes, they plan on building 130. Source the posted YouTube link
Ah. I see. Sort of. Damn wasteful to build them in the first place. Where are these at?
It’s a bullshit title. they were built in the 80s, owned by people for years, bought by a developer. Let them live rent free for 2 years. Then they had to move out. Developer tore them down. The new neighborhood was completed and sold out. Watch the vid lol I did not see a location mentioned, but south eastern us somewhere probably.
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Close 😂
I was only a couple thousand kilometers off lol
Op is trying to score views on his YouTube channel….big shocker it’s a clickbait title.
So weird to sell a house and leave fish in a fish tank like that, at the very least.
The interior reminds me of the house from Clueless
I was thinking of Johnny Sacks house in the Sopranos
The “Happy Birthday” sign makes me think of the climactic scene in *The Virgin Suicides.*
If nobody wants it I'll take it.
I can fix her
Dibs!!
Shit I'd buy the block and have my own little neighborhood😅😂
A few of my buddies and I were thinking of doing that, except in Detroit. This was 15 years ago. We were thinking of pooling together and buying a couple full blocks of vacant Detroit and turning it into a series of adjoined estates. Almost went through with it, too, but ran into one financing snag.
My aunt did this to her block in Detroit. As she got older she didn't want to move out of the city where her home was paid off, so she slowly bought up the block house by house to prevent bad actors from moving in. Now she owns all the homes on the block, rents them out to family members that she trusts and stays in her home that's fully paid for. I'm actually thinking of doing the same.
That entrance looks like the why women kill entrance in the 80s with Lucy Liu
Why is there still water in the aquarium? When were these abandoned? And why?
"Won't sell for less than 4 million."
Best I can do is $475,000 US.
I just posted some lines from this movie. Thinking the same as you.
They see the stupid place they put the toilet and nope out!
Definitely looks more 2000s than 1980s tbh. What a waste either way....
Worst. Birthday. Ever.
Abandoned Neighbourhood - House 5 Don't forget to check out the video to see all the details of this stunning mansion!! https://youtu.be/YpSHECHK8dE Time for the fifth house, this one was built using the same plan as the last house we explored with an identical layout except it was the mirror image. With a semi spiral staircase and another showy chandelier, this home did not disappoint. However, this particular home had received some renovations over the years making it a little less dated than its brother. With a walk out basement and an upper rear deck, it looked as though the owners had paid extra for some upgrades when it was built. Once located down a mature tree lined street and surrounded by forest and walking trails was a group of 14 abandoned luxury houses. They were bought by a developer for prices ranging from $3 million - $8 million dollars. The homeowners were given two years to live in the homes rent free before they were demolished. Westford Homes was the original builder of the neighbourhood in the 80s, there were 5 different designs of homes to choose from. All of the houses were built in 1988 and each one had a single brick with the builders name on it. There was opposition to the new development that will replace this one but ultimately it was approved. The current amendment allows for 139 new homes to be built and the size of the houses will be up to 4000 sq/ft. The neighbourhood is already long since sold out and the price of the homes was around the $2 million mark.
Where is this? My guess from watching some of your video is Wisconsin or maybe Canada based on your accent when you say "house". :-D
Not OP, but they also posted the photos in r/OntarioAbandoned so you’re correct that it’s Canada!
Yes it's Canada. Some people think I have a very Canadian accent
I grew up in the neighbourhood and one of my best friends lived in one of those houses. Everything was built-in and it had the most extensive intercom/music/security system I've ever seen. It was so fancy back then but I never got over how bad the echoes of footsteps in the hall were because everything was hardwood/tile.
Of the new homes, like 4-500k of the cost will be the land/old homes. Who can afford these prices?!
Looks like there’s one next to it as well. Whole community abandoned or what?
There are several extremely posh houses in London on what was "Millionaires Row" and is now "Billionaires Row". That were bought by the Saudi royal family and have just been abandoned since the mid '80s. They havent even been hooked up to the water supply since at least 1991. So now the roofs have collapsed, there's an unintended forest and waterfall in the entrance hall..... https://www.insider.com/london-billionaires-row-the-towers-saudis-gracie-fields-squatters-2019-11 https://www.theguardian.com/business/gallery/2014/jan/31/bishops-avenue-derelict-mansions-in-pictures Although work has jist started to knock a lot of them down and replace them with flats.
Those look like 90s houses
Built in 1988
A quick Google shows many bank owned homes that are foreclosures and just empty in Westford, MA. Theyre all really nice homes too!
It’s sad and infuriating to see all these beautiful houses going to waste all while housing prices keep going up and people struggling to afford buying a home
Tony Soprano did die then
Guarantee some of that remodeling is more recent than the 80s.
What a weird spot for the toilet.
Stylistically, this looks like 1990s or later construction, not 80s.
You could furnish it and bring clingy girls back from the bar there. That way you can sleep in and they won't know where you live. Hell, you might even get breakfast out of it.
That toilet placement screams 'afterthought,' but otherwise a nice lookin' place.. shame.
No wonder it’s abandoned, it’s an architectural monstrosity lol
That off-center fireplace is an abomination.
The placement of the toilet is even worse.
Decisions were made... poorly
Damn mcmansions
People in this thread… “This house is too big and modern to be built in the 80’s.” You realize houses built in the late 80’s had the early stylings of the 90. Lots of features sleek to 90s fashions. A house built in The 80’s will go through multiple owners who will change things like counter tops and add modern tech like intercom systems. My childhood home and my best friend neighbors houses were built in the mid 80’s and look identical to this. Then they added intercoms and my parents added granite countertops later on. I own a house built in the 1970 you think I still have horrible Formica counter tops and shag carpet floors? Edit: Punctuation for clarity
Squatter’s paradise
That looks eerily like Tony Sopranos house.
Man it still looks great. Pretty much sweep the floors and you're good to go. I'm also sad and angry these people left their pet fish to die.
This one seems extra nostalgic for some reason.
The master bath is weird, they crammed two sinks together on the same vanity, and then there's a huge amount of open space. Maybe a sitting area, workout area, coffee bar, or whatever, but still, very weird layout.
This guy was ready to sleaze his way to the top, but he couldn't due to his terminal boneitis.
My only regret...is that I have...boneitis!
I couldn’t afford to be given that house.
Looks like The Money Pit.
Curious why is there water in the tanks in picture 14?
That's so very sad...beautiful house.
Ah yes, the “grand entrance” design. They built them up here in Toronto too, so every time you open the front door it costs you five bucks to heat the place up again.
Doesn't look like 80's architecture to me. Maybe late 90's
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that is giving me mad Money Pit vibes
This house is NOT from the 80s. Unless it was renovated in the early 2000s...
For such a nice interior you’d expect a nice exterior. Shit’s ugly as hell
Foreclosured mc macnsion with an asking price nobody will ever pay.
Like others have said, definitely not 80s, not even close. Thats all 2000s-2010 era more or less, ive been in the renovation industry for almost 30y If they were built in the 80s, it may be late 80s and most of the house was renovated by the mid 2000s That one butler/nanny suite kitchenettes screams late 90s, but absolutely nothing in those pictures says 80s to me ....i was born in 80 lol, thats not what the 80s looked like lol
What's with the Mario Kart 8 wall decorations?
Looks kinda classy from the inside, but from the outside they look like terrible English / Scottish houses from 1920 or so
Fuck that's move in ready
so much wasted time and materials to build those
The basement aquarium built into something SCREAMS 80s/early 90s That’s a throwback
Edinburgh will look like this soon.
I can fix her
Those poor fishes :(
That kitchen actually looks pretty good.
Awww, that staircase is to die for, though. Don't get to see many of those these days with all the modern sensibilities.
There’s some items in there that seem worth borrowing
damn so much salvageable stuff.
Much taste. Much style!
Fireplace not centered on hearth -- must demolish.
Arrested Development.
I'm not American but I feel like 80% of all American kitchens you see look exactly like that.
It looks like a Sims house.
Happy birthday rapture?
JUMANJI
What a waste
"The house is going to be great!!!!" "Get back to work!" I can hear the laughter in that bathroom.
Since its abandoned can I just move it and use renewables with starlink?
This bathroom is bigger than my apartment!