Comandante Marcos kiwifarms.net Tuesday at 6:18 PM #34 Jebus Fucking Christ, I wonder what will happen when Barb finally dies (if she's not dead already) and the bank finally kicks Chris out. The house will go to auction and be snapped up by an investor, most likely. I used to hang out with "distressed property investors" on teh internetz ages ago, and they see some truly bizarre shit. More than one story of houses literally coated in shit and grime. 14BLC isn't quite that bad, but hoard houses require a lot of initial outlay from the investor since they have to pay shitloads of strong guys to haul all the shit out of the house by hand and into a big dumpster or three (another expense) then off to the dump (another expense). And then of course there's the mandatory gutting and rehab. Even worse, the house has been through a big fire that tore a massive hole in the roof that was probably repaired the cheapest way possible, so there's likely roof beams that will need to be replaced too. And then there's the fact that the house sits in such a bumfuck backwoods area that Bob couldn't sell it when the family moved to Richmond. When all the costs are added up, and weighed against the probable sale price, it would probably be cheaper for Greene County to simply demolish the whole fucking mess and hand the lot over to the county land trustee or whatever they call the office that holds abandoned parcels. Maybe they could erect a Sonichu statue on the lot and get some tourist bux. Did anybody note the weird signs on a wall at one point? A "Wes Chandler-Ton Manor" sign with a 1980 date. A "Ship Chandler" sign. (The original meaning of the word "chandler" was a person who runs a business outfitting ships for long voyages. In the old days ships could be away from port for a couple years if not much longer, and needed appropriate provisions.) Those signs look like something Bob would buy, they were likely saved from the fire. I think we may finally have the answer as to when Bob and Barb bought 14BLC. They married in 1980, so it would be logical that they would buy a house. The house may be a type of cheap house that is built by companies in the Deep South for people who burn down their old houses either through neglect or through knocking over a candle or something (some areas are so fucking poor that a lot of denizens can't afford electricity) and who need a new house on their old lot fast. I've been told that the companies advertise in local magazines. Sometimes they'll build micro-neighborhoods, usually just a dozen houses on a single cul-de-sac, to show off their products and to restuff a depleted bank account.