Great work Sir!

Slicked it off!

Now ya just need a match and a calm day

That’s actually impressive.

Did you find anything they had you couldn't live without and kept for yourself?

Had to take a couple weeks off to get some stuff knocked out in the shop, but we’ve got the trees all down as of yesterday. Getting the house somewhat emptied out now so that we can knock it down

Did you contact the Fire Department?

We've used houses like this to do lots of training on. Searches, force entry, ventilation (which will put holes in the roof) and even live fire training. Build a fire, let it grow, put out the fire, repeat. Until the end of the day, and let it burn down.

So it’s actually in the county, the street is the city limit. I am waiting to hear back from the vfd that is first responding to the house to see about exchanging a donation for them to burn what they can. If not, then I’ll be contacting another vfd that responds and they will do it. Don’t know about the actual house though, I was just hoping they could burn the wood that’s out back from all the decks and fencing etc.

I forgot to take a before pic, but they had a dirt bike track in the back of the lot that we got flattened out last week. They had piled up all kinds of rocks and cinder blocks underneath those jumps, the rock bucket did great sifting through it as we spread it.

Garvey I spoke with the department, they’re going to let me control burn the wood piles but won’t touch the house. Too close to other houses and worried about a tceq complaint on the smoke.

All of the trees are down, today I will get over there and start emptying the last bedroom I’m supposed to go through. After that I’m opening it up to a couple of scavengers who want some of the useless [censored] she left.

Before you let the scavengers in I would go through the house and look for "repairs" in the sheetrock if it has any. If it has wood floors take a good look at them to see if any have been removed and reset. When my Granddad passed we notices some little things and after doing the above we found a pretty good chuck of money in the walls and under some boards. Make sure to check the closet area good as this is where we found quite a bit. Also check between the backing on pictures hanging on the walls.

We’ve found about $1500 in cash I mailed them, and the family found over $6k when they went to move her out and when I let them back in to go through things one last time a few weeks ago. It has all been in pockets of pants or in tube socks all tied up. Best I can tell she wasn’t very good at hiding it, but we have looked in some walls that looked tampered with and in the attic with no luck. I’m just over it at this point

Got the house about halfway down today and hauled 10 loads out. I found some guys on fb who have a place to haul and do it way too cheap, we ran 3 trailers for 4 hours today. Up to about 50 tons now. More to come tmw hoping to make 15 more loads. Found $65 in the pile while we were loading, there’s no telling what we’re throwing away at this point but I don’t have the time to care.

Looks like satisfying progress.....

30 loads in the last 2 days has about 80% of the house gone. We will be taking a little break for a few days before we finish it off.

A lot done so far, still quite a bit of crap to go. Congrats on getting that place. When you get it cleaned up the property value of it and surrounding properties should increase and you get more space and future investment without that next door

Did you find anything of value hidden around the place?

All in all we’ve found about $800-$1,000 in cash, sent all but the last $65 I found the other day to her son who’s funding her living arrangements.

What a challenge cleaning a mess like that up. Looking so much better.

The place has had to sit for a while, we are extremely busy and shorthanded as usual.

I found this cool bit on Amazon for $700 and decided to try it. 12” diameter holes down about 6” underground came pretty easy. They’re all soaking in kerosene now to burn once we get some rain and the ban is lifted. The shavings make some real good for starters!





I ran these guys off and didn’t realize until after that he had been there earlier and stole my chainsaw and some other stuff. Put up a reward on fb for his address and within 2 hours had his name, address, job, and plate number so we went hunting for him. He didn’t turn up for a few days so we put in a report and may or may not have threatened to light his other truck we found on fire in the middle of the night. He got arrested for a class a, then he returned everything to the property one night so we wouldn’t burn his truck. Didn’t drop the charges sucks to be him…



Last pic we hauled about 10 more loads and slicked the front off again. I need to move the camera angle
I guess now

Huge neighborhood improvement