BBM
This is why the last house on the farm stands empty today. Costs a lot to repair only to be destroyed. One, there was just no salvaging, so the fire dpt was permitted to use it for a practice burn.
Respectfully, are you speaking of the brick home the Turpin family lived in? If so do you have a link for that? As the current owner says he rented it out and in another media report the renter's let media in to take photos. The double wide was foreclosed/repossessed.
Jmho - the roof didn't just get bad because family lived there. Jmho that most likely why they purchased the double wide. House had been vacant for long time by time Baldwin purchased, and just like other neighbors said they went looking in houses after family left. Could have been that way when Turpins left but too many twisted stories. Jmho happens in all high profile.
"Even though Baldwin, who owns several rental properties, said he is "used to working on houses," he described the condition of the home as "bad." The mortgage company had even spent two months cleaning it up to get it "halfway presentable" before they put it on the market, he said.
"It was just nasty," Baldwin said. There was "all kinds of stuff" all over the walls and carpet, the bathroom floor was "totally rotted out," the roof was leaking, and there were holes in the walls and ceilings, he said.
took about three months and up to $35,000 to restore the home, which Baldwin uses as a rental property, he said.
The 2,300 square foot home with four bedrooms and two bathrooms was so trashed that the family bought a "brand new double-wide" and placed it several hundred yards behind the house in the backyard, Baldwin said. Although the trailer was gone by the time he purchased the property, an above-ground water line that led from the house to the trailer and an electrical meter were still visible, he said.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/family-mal...ed-trailer-texas-home-years/story?id=52477251