• Exploring An Abandoned Neighborhood
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[media]http://youtu.be/nEZrRmq5USk[/media] Crazy to think that they would just up and abandon an [b]entire[/b] neighborhood. These guys are great, they explore all kinds of cool locations, don't break anything, and don't steal anything.
wow it's pretty scary to think that a whole neighborhood would just be abandoned like that
This feels like a legitimate TV show. I am so subscribing.
I'd be surprised if there haven't been a couple horror movies filmed there
This stuff is awesome. Makes me miss the Urbexing Sub-Forum
This is eerie as heck.
Wonder if they found any rare Pokémon [editline]11th July 2016[/editline] That's pretty eerie
Surprised the place isn't filled with squatters.
[QUOTE=nox;50694648]Surprised the place isn't filled with squatters.[/QUOTE] well if the end of the video's anything to go by they've all been completely demolished.
What the heck did they call a "hoosier"? Thats not a term I hear many people outside of Indiana use. They said "A hoosier racing tire." Is that what people call Indy car tires or something? what was it doing in that forest? so many questions.
[QUOTE=abananapeel;50694778]What the heck did they call a "hoosier"? Thats not a term I hear many people outside of Indiana use. They said "A hoosier racing tire." Is that what people call Indy car tires or something? what was it doing in that forest? so many questions.[/QUOTE] Hoosier is a brand of racing tire, I think.
[QUOTE=nox;50694648]Surprised the place isn't filled with squatters.[/QUOTE] that last house had been
So what was this mortgage scam actually about? I read the houses were being built for show only without any sewage connections.
[QUOTE=Im Crimson;50694917]So what was this mortgage scam actually about? I read the houses were being built for show only without any sewage connections.[/QUOTE] probably the big housing crisis that happened a few years ago. It was a big deal then
It's interesting how in USA they build house neighborhoods, here all they build are apartment buildings, with small apartments which are still too expensive for anyone who actually needs them.
I have an abandoned neighborhood about 30 minutes from where I live. Been considering going. Not sure. Maybe.
[QUOTE=Im Crimson;50694917]So what was this mortgage scam actually about? I read the houses were being built for show only without any sewage connections.[/QUOTE] It sounds like it could be related to this [video=youtube;bx_LWm6_6tA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx_LWm6_6tA[/video]
They aren't occupied because you'd probably be bleeding out your goddamn eyes from all the mold :v:
[QUOTE=Im Crimson;50694917]So what was this mortgage scam actually about? I read the houses were being built for show only without any sewage connections.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=ewitwins;50694495]Crazy to think that they would just up and abandon an [b]entire[/b] neighborhood.[/QUOTE] As I recall several people went to jail over this incident. The lots are too small to have their own septic system, and the developers lied about a sewer system being installed. At that point the properties would have been declared uninhabitable and condemned. Even if people wanted to stay there, they wouldn't have had a choice. From the looks of it, very few, if any, of the properties were ever completed anyways. Now add on a few dozen owners for different properties, and the town/city/county/state is going to have a hell of a time straightening out the legalese on just repossessing everything, especially since some of them probably paid taxes. The end of the video, and a quick google confirms, that it was only within the past few months that they managed to demolish them all. [editline]12th July 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=garychencool;50695020]It sounds like it could be related to this [video=youtube;bx_LWm6_6tA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx_LWm6_6tA[/video][/QUOTE] This event has less to do with the financial collapse than just straight up fraud. Unrelated to that, the thing that video fails to cover is how they'd take those CDOs and repackage the other slices to get more and more safe slices. Things would get bought, sold, bought back, sold again, buried in soft peat for 3 months, then collections of risky mortgages would wind up lumped together for a small 'safe' slice, which wasn't actually even remotely safe. It was one hell of an elaborate shell game.
[QUOTE=Zephyrs;50695152]As I recall several people went to jail over this incident. The lots are too small to have their own septic system, and the developers lied about a sewer system being installed..[/QUOTE] Do we know the reason the lots ended up that way, though? Maybe I'm overthinking this, but how exactly would someone make money off mortgages for houses without sewage handling systems?
i think i'd probably fuck off out of the neighborhood after seeing that graffiti in that last house
[QUOTE=ewitwins;50694495]and don't steal anything.[/QUOTE] What's there to steal in a abandoned building?
[QUOTE=Slim Charles;50695302]What's there to steal in a abandoned building?[/QUOTE] Aside from wiring/plumbing, there's people taking mementos and generally altering the place (potentially making it less interesting for future explorers).
[QUOTE=Im Crimson;50695193]Do we know the reason the lots ended up that way, though? Maybe I'm overthinking this, but how exactly would someone make money off mortgages for houses without sewage handling systems?[/QUOTE] That would be the fraud part. They sold houses that violated some building code, or several. Deals got stopped, guys went to jail, and were ordered to pay restitution.
Since the Urbex subforum was removed, I've taken initiative and visited 3 abandoned places in my local area. An old abandoned school / factory in Bøstrup; [url]http://www.steffen-jensen.dk/data/img/20131224191748879239_origsmall.jpg[/url] The abandoned Fun park Fyn; [url]http://fresk.dk/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Fun-Park-Fyn.jpg[/url] And an old brewery in Rudkøbing; [url]http://images.fyens.dk/22/1187222_1200_0_0_110_2126_1195.jpg[/url] All was amazing experiences, even found art from previous visitors, including a room covered in old pictures of women and with a satanic burnmark into the floor. [editline]12th July 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=Slim Charles;50695302]What's there to steal in a abandoned building?[/QUOTE] A lot of industrial places are abandoned as-is, i.e. the funpark fyn carnival that I visited still had old bumper karts standing about just rotting away.
people visit abandoned places to steal copper wiring in the walls and any other items of value that might be left over
I feel like I'm watching a found-footage movie like The Blairwitch Project.
In Ireland during the boom, property developers built hundreds of housing estates across the country, which were abandoned when the crash hit. It's pretty eerie driving through the countryside at night and seeing the silhouettes of these empty, and in a lot of cases, perfect unoccupied houses, unlit because there's no point turning the streetlights on.
[video=youtube_share;tnmV3heNVuE]http://youtu.be/tnmV3heNVuE[/video] Another of their videos, I'm sat watching it shitting myself, quite eerie
imagine putting on a monster costume with fake stilt legs that make you taller and a tail even and just waiting for people to come do urbex in this place.
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