Those abandoned buildings should be burnt to the ground

let it be.

 

I say knock down the old and build the new as long as it's pretty

 

Yes.


I have a couple in my neighborhood, always love going inside.

 

If you but property and build on it, it is your duty to maintain it. If things come up, try to sell it, if you can't either maintain it or have i disposed of. Then try to just sell the lot and if you cant at least you don't have a rotting building....

 

But that is the mystery to some of these properties. Why are the left to stand alone?

I've been in a few and it's like the family just up and left but left everything behind. Why would they do that?

Did somebody inherit it but they were never notified. Makes me think. Besides some of those building are history as well.

 

i liked the idea for the kids...Gotta do what we gotta do though right...Keeping on the flow dude...If only this was a paradise right?

 

I love exploring places like that!!!!

Its quite exciting to be honest! (As long as your careful (holes in floors,etc))

 

I hear everybody talking about them being interesting and wanting to explore and such. Their was this buiding a mile away from my house growning up that always scared me and my brother. We never went into it until one day when we were walking with out older cousin and went inside and checked it out. It was creppy as hell. It was only one floor and it was a small building. Inside were a bunch of books, i think we took one, and a old pair of ski boots, which i wish i had to this day. After we left from that day on i always felt comfurtable walking past it tell years later when it was torn down by the neighbor.

I just started this thread because i felt like these buildings i was looking at were just making the neighborhood look like shit. Yea they can be fun to explore but i really think it depends on the location of these buildings. If they were more outside of town id feel different. Yesterday though i was just thinking...ugh, why would anyone want to live next to that. :ack2:

 

I would think it was up to the owner of the property , and the city codes. If it is unsafe the city could ask the owner to fix it or tear it down . I have heard there are abandoned houses in cites that the city will not condem them

they have no money to tear them down . Even burning a place such as this is arson . There are probly bums living there they may do it for you . where is this ? desert rat

 

Not sure where this is, but throughout the US many of these buildings belong to banks, and they don't care. They certainly won't cough up the change to have it torn down but would be the first to call a lawyer if someone were to burn it down.

 

in many cases it is the city that owns these old houses and few cities have the dough to do anything atm.....


i can think of many reasons why these houses exist....upside down mortgage being the first reason....renters that destroy rental homes causing the owners to walk away and declare a loss.....old owners that die after not being able to keep up with the repairs and no heirs to give it to?........it is quite common to just wait till a developer comes along to buy them up.....banks that own these houses are just being smart businesses by not putting any money into them unless it cant be avoided.....also grow houses often become derelict for obvious reasons

Home sweet home... in Junkies' Alley: Council paints homely scenes on boarded up windows to attract buyers in one of the UK's worst places to live



detroit has one of the highest concentrations of derelict homes in NA

 

They built a new hospital in town and they're demolishing the old one. I am SUPER sad about that. It didn't even get a chance to be all abandoned and it was already so old and creepy. I wanted to see the place after it was vacated. Now all I have is memories and the possibility of getting asbestosis if I get too close to the property.

 

+1

I actually say, restore it.

 

I agree just like this picture perfect home in Detroit :2thumbsup:




Hotwater

 

That would have been such a nice place.

 

Left alone nature will take back what we built upon eventually.

 

For the homeless guy who lives on the 1st floor it’s a mansion


hotwater

 

So very true!

 

Philly has its share of abandoned buildings they say there going to knock them down but never get around to do it

 

Yes, I agree!

Most have incredible, or terrible history, you would not imagine! For example, an abandoned Hospital in Brandenburg, Germany I visit, I discovered Adolf Hitler was here in 1917. I enjoy atmosphere and ambience in abandoned buildings.

My favourite is Asylums, Hospitals, old Homes. However, I enjoy to explore all type of such places. I find items, books, photographs, letters to my collection - most as old as 1700!

If people do not see it before, here is my Thread, maybe you will like it:

http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/showthread.php?t=437078&f=80

It is only small part of places I have visit in the past, I began this Photography interest in 2008.

Also, Hyperlink to my favourite Abandoned Buildings website of all: (Is this okay, to share?) http://www.urban-travel.org/documents/24.html