File this under things that make me very sad.
This is an abandoned farmstead on the highway near where I work. Once a beautiful farmhouse and sturdy outbuildings situated on 5 or 6 acres, it's been left to rot and become unuseable. I see this quite a bit, and it makes me both sad and angry. Someone has wasted a perfectly good home and buildings. I don't understand why anyone would do this.
If they didn't want the upkeep, why didn't they sell it? Were they holding out for a developer to come along and offer big bucks? Was there a family disagreement over its sale, so it just sits? Are they just being lazy and figure they'll get around to doing something with that property eventually?
Dude! Give it to me...I'll gladly inherit it!
Anyway...I never have quite understood things like this. My former country residence, which I rented, had become uninhabitable due to the landlord's unwillingness to keep the place up. It was a nice little turn of the century farmhouse. Now, the dilapidated house sits empty, along with a couple of outbuildings. The guy could have sold the place to me. Or sold it to someone else. Or had the local fire department burn it down, and turn the land into more corn field. But it still just sits. No family disagreement over what to do, no waiting for a delveloper, just laziness on the landlords part. He doesn't need the money, and it's not really costing him much (well, property taxes, but when you have a lot of money I guess it's not that big a deal) to have it just sit there. To me, that's sad.
Rant over!
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