73Coupe
Senior Member
Hopefully a "McMansion" doesn't go up next to you....
Electric Car Fire at my Neighbors
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57fury440
Senior Member
Another electric car? Wow.
71Polara383
Kid with ballcap
Married to the ideology.
They sold the place. I heard a closing date of July 9th.
And apparently, that's what happened.
67newport
Old Man with a Hat
if the house is rite next door to you. when they start to tear it down watch for the rats. that is the problem i had when they tore my neighbors house down after it was destroyed by a fire in February and was finally torn down in October.
67newport
Old Man with a Hat
they probably got good $$$$$$$$$$$$
Following up on this insanity..... It's been just a couple days short of a year since the fire.
The neighbors sold the house to a local builder/real estate agent. Nice enough guy, he's an Ukrainian immigrant that's been in the country quite a while and lives in the next town.
He decided to rebuild what's there.... He had his crew up there over the summer cleaning out as they left everything behind... Everything.... Lot's of dumpster trips from what I saw. Put on a new roof and new garage. Cleaned up the yard etc. He had his father, who seems like a nice guy doing a lot of the work with a crew of 2 guys. The father barely speaks English and his crew doesn't speak it at all. All Ukrainians.
I was working one day in the garage with the doors open(as usual) and the father came over to borrow a phillips screwdriver. He knew all the words except "phillips" so he was making hand gestures and I knew what he wanted right away. I got a good chuckle out of that one.
They had their work cutout for them as the holes in the roof that the fireman cut were never covered and the snow from last year (and we had about 10' last season), then the rain and probably animals. The place had started to stink too.
All was going well... and then around the first part of October, everything stopped for a couple weeks, then started again, but only one guy working part time... Then he seems to be gone. I've seen nothing going on for weeks now. There's still some junk on the front lawn that I'm getting tired of looking at and the dumpster has taken up residence in the driveway.
I have no idea what's going on.... The new owner had figured on the place being done and rented by October/November.
I'm thinking he's either run out of money, or his crew has gone home to the Ukraine. I'm betting on the money running out.
The old neighbor stopped by and the conversation didn't go well.... I asked why he didn't call and he said the guy had offered more, so I told him I would have beaten that price had he called. He got quite pissed off at me for some unknown reason, but whatever... His older partner is on death's door (I think he has AIDS), I did find that out. He also let it slip how much the settlement was.... I think he got at least $100k less than he should have.
I feel like it was pretty disrespectful for him not to have called... But he's a dumbass as he lost out there too.
So... I have no new neighbor, which is fine, but I don't like an empty house next door either. Stuff happens to empty places. This is a "low crime" area where lot's of people never even locked their doors. Things have changed a bit over the years though and it's still pretty tame, but the new owner did tell me that someone was in there between the time he closed and when they started building.
The neighbors sold the house to a local builder/real estate agent. Nice enough guy, he's an Ukrainian immigrant that's been in the country quite a while and lives in the next town.
He decided to rebuild what's there.... He had his crew up there over the summer cleaning out as they left everything behind... Everything.... Lot's of dumpster trips from what I saw. Put on a new roof and new garage. Cleaned up the yard etc. He had his father, who seems like a nice guy doing a lot of the work with a crew of 2 guys. The father barely speaks English and his crew doesn't speak it at all. All Ukrainians.
I was working one day in the garage with the doors open(as usual) and the father came over to borrow a phillips screwdriver. He knew all the words except "phillips" so he was making hand gestures and I knew what he wanted right away. I got a good chuckle out of that one.
They had their work cutout for them as the holes in the roof that the fireman cut were never covered and the snow from last year (and we had about 10' last season), then the rain and probably animals. The place had started to stink too.
All was going well... and then around the first part of October, everything stopped for a couple weeks, then started again, but only one guy working part time... Then he seems to be gone. I've seen nothing going on for weeks now. There's still some junk on the front lawn that I'm getting tired of looking at and the dumpster has taken up residence in the driveway.
I have no idea what's going on.... The new owner had figured on the place being done and rented by October/November.
I'm thinking he's either run out of money, or his crew has gone home to the Ukraine. I'm betting on the money running out.
No, not really. The buyer upped the price it was offered to me by $2000.
The old neighbor stopped by and the conversation didn't go well.... I asked why he didn't call and he said the guy had offered more, so I told him I would have beaten that price had he called. He got quite pissed off at me for some unknown reason, but whatever... His older partner is on death's door (I think he has AIDS), I did find that out. He also let it slip how much the settlement was.... I think he got at least $100k less than he should have.
I feel like it was pretty disrespectful for him not to have called... But he's a dumbass as he lost out there too.
So... I have no new neighbor, which is fine, but I don't like an empty house next door either. Stuff happens to empty places. This is a "low crime" area where lot's of people never even locked their doors. Things have changed a bit over the years though and it's still pretty tame, but the new owner did tell me that someone was in there between the time he closed and when they started building.
Yep, caught a huge rat in the basement after they started working. We also were suddenly besieged by "stink bugs" around the time they were opening the walls.
73Coupe
Senior Member
Maybe you can make an offer to the Ukrainians now; they might be desperate to sell if your hunch is correct. It might still be salvageable but if they place was open to the elements, you never know if they covered up decay unless there's still a smell that you can't get out......
67newport
Old Man with a Hat
be lucky you just got 1. i killed 12 in the house garage. never did see any in the house tho. must have been the bagged bird seed that kept them in the garage.
3175375
Old Man with a Hat
We have a pest service that comes once a month. Several tin cat traps and poison boxes outside.
The technician usually finds one or two mice or voles in the traps near the shop roll up doors. We haven’t had any rodents in the house for over a year or two.
No rats and we have fields on all sides…
67newport
Old Man with a Hat
the mold in there was probably terrible.
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