Abandoned Homesteads

[Peter Drouin]

I reckon that I should take a picture of my old home.  :-\  I remember seeing it built in the late 40's and we moved in when I was 5 years old.  There is an excess of homes and a shortage of folks looking for homes, so it now stands abandoned.  Abandoned, but I still pay a hefty tax bill on it each year.

Start an LP for it. ;)

[Magicman]

It's in the LP, and part of the real estate taxes that the LP pays are for it.  If it was not for the sawmill income going to the LP, I would have to pay the taxes.

I know, it is just a game, but the IRS makes the rules.  I just figured out a way for the sawmill's income to be non-taxable....legally.

[Ron Scott]

Another in the Village of Harrietta, MI


 

[Peter Drouin]

It's in the LP, and part of the real estate taxes that the LP pays are for it.  If it was not for the sawmill income going to the LP, I would have to pay the taxes.

I know, it is just a game, but the IRS makes the rules.  I just figured out a way for the sawmill's income to be non-taxable....legally.

[Ron Scott]

Abandoned barn hidden in the grown up trees near Harrietta, MI, June 2015.


 

[Ron Scott]

A modern day abandonment, near Moorestown, MI, July 2015.


 

[Autocar]

Have you ever noticed how a modern day abandonment theres tons of trash laying around. About all the old homesteads around this part of the county are torn down and it is farm ground now. Half the people in our area dosen't have a clue what this country side use to look like.

[SwampDonkey]

It was done years ago to, they just opened the back door and tossed it. I cleaned up old trash for years from around the old farm house that dad's uncle and anyone else before we lived there created. Had a cousin the same way, when the porch and buildings was full they heaved it out in the yard.  There ain't nothing new about it. ;)

[Ron Scott]

Yes, they all had their own "garbage dump" which later became sites for treasure hunters and old bottle hunters.

[SwampDonkey]

I remember an old guy that lived with his wife and daughter on an old road that was not very well maintained, but the road had been settled along in the 19C. He had a yard full of stuff, barns and sheds to. Mostly scrap stuff, nothing to get too excited over. But when he passed on and the family left it was bought by a guy who was a long time cleaning it up. Then he planted the house site and what there was for fields in spruce trees. They had an interesting name that you don't come across too often. The Hawthorns. My grandfather was always visiting the guy during hunting season if he had sports hunting bear. A place of many for him to pass the time and not be too far away to go check on his sport now and then to see if he had a bear. Grandfather had a circuit of old timers he'd check in on.  ;D

[beenthere]

SD
Do you also have a circuit of old timers you check in on?  or just here on the FF ??  ;)

[SwampDonkey]

I'm not an old timer yet, maybe after I get my first pension check. Then I can do the circuit. ;D :D

[Jeff]

Here are two, about a mile apart, northeast of Harrison. I'd love to have the bones of the stone house to restore.


  

  

 

[Autocar]

The last two pictures what a fun project that would be with a beautiful setting. Can places like that be bought ? Just curous sure could make a dandy home.