Future of the House

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to the best of my knowledge, in bank foreclosures within established neighborhoods they usually will not demolish a home unless it has irreparable damage (fire, flooding, collapsed floor, etc). they'd likely hire a junk removal service, refinish all the surfaces, and put it up for sale. all the major furniture would be sold if possible, the rest thrown in some dumpster.

if chris used half of a braincell he could arrange for mortgage payments to be made directly from his bank account, though he'll stop receiving his government benefits after a month of convicted incarceration. if barb gets financial support she could do the same. I'm assuming chris will spend all his remaining funds on candy and stamps while barb is sent to a home. the family will likely try to sell the home and that'll be that
 
Future of the house, chris inherits it, then the bank forecloses on it and auctions it off at a low price due to the condition of the building which requires a lot of cleanup and renovations. Some ween buys it, tries to sell genuine DIRTY, CRAPPED, BRIEFS to other weens. Ends up realizing it was a bad idea and sells it at a loss to some house flipping business and the entire hoard goes to the landfill (not without weens digging through the dumpsters stationed outside the house during cleanup), the house is renovated back to a livable standard, its then sold to some unsuspecting family who will have weird mail sent to them for years.
Chris will probably come to the house and get the cops called on him by the new family.
 
Myrtle the Turtle said:
Im thinking its closets. It might be how the county inspector defines 'rooms'. Could be different than a conventional bedroom/bathroom.
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3 bedroom, 2 bath = 5 rooms. Kitchen and living room makes 7. That leaves a den/mud room or unfinished basement area. Code and laws vary by municipality but 'rooms' are generally defined as being attached to the house, having electrical outlets and some kind of central heating, and occasionally have square footage requirements and exclude structures not accessible from within the house. A garage can be made into a room but not a shed, closet, or hallway. That's one of the more strict definitions but there's usually some of those definitions in place to prevent sleazy developers padding their numbers and people trying to rent out sheds as living space.
normankrasner said:
why does that house have central AC but not 14BLC?
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Houses from this period often have oil furnaces and radiant or some kind of baseboard heat and either don't have ductwork or were never retrofitted for HVAC units. It wouldn't surprise me if the tugboat included fuel assistance.
 
Piggle-o said:
3 bedroom, 2 bath = 5 rooms. Kitchen and living room makes 7. That leaves a den/mud room or unfinished basement area. Code and laws vary by municipality but 'rooms' are generally defined as being attached to the house, having electrical outlets and some kind of central heating, and occasionally have square footage requirements and exclude structures not accessible from within the house. A garage can be made into a room but not a shed, closet, or hallway. That's one of the more strict definitions but there's usually some of those definitions in place to prevent sleazy developers padding their numbers and people trying to rent out sheds as living space.

Houses from this period often have oil furnaces and radiant or some kind of baseboard heat and either don't have ductwork or were never retrofitted for HVAC units. It wouldn't surprise me if the tugboat included fuel assistance.
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14BC is a split-level house, a style of house built in the 60s and early 70s, well after oil furnaces had been replaced by natural gas units. The Chandlers likely just didn't want to pony up the scratch to upgrade their A/C to central air or were happy enough with a swamp cooler and window units.
 
Ok we have an oral account at least https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/uld30j/so_i_drove_by_14bc/

For context, I was on my way to Williamsburg to visit the historic section and rather than go directly there, I made Charlottesville to avoid DC traffic. I was coming from up north and Ruckersville was on the way to Charlottesville so I took a detour. I didn't go to record the house so there are no attached photos or video, but having followed Chris since 2008, I was curious so I decided to drop by and see the place.

For anyone who hasn't been there before, it's definitely jarring to visit. The neighborhood is actually really nice, with a mix of cheaper homes and large, well built houses. It reminds me of a nice suburb. The street 14BC is on dead ends where, if you drive down it, you have to circle around.

It's clear that 14BC was owned by people who never cared about upkeeping their property. Unlike the rest of the homes in the area, 14BC is way overgrown with various trees and other plants. The dreaming studio is on the side of the house, not in the back of it. The grass in the front yard is a mix of overgrown areas and dead patches. The windows are covered in grime and are opaque. There was some weird decoration on the door. To me it looked like a witch decal that has been rather weathered. It's evident that no one has lived here in a while.

Perhaps the most eerie part of this is that the house looks like it did back in the first videos Chris ever made. It's also fairly close to the next door neighbor, leaving that the fire could have easily spread to the other house. Fire damage wasn't apparent, so it's clear that the home was repaired to fix that damage but not to make it modern in any way. I didn't see any neighbors around.

It was quite surreal.
 
I’m still not convinced it’s been cleaned out, but I’m leaning more in that direction.
 
Smleman303 said:
I'm leaning towards Chris not having a home to go back to when all is said and done....
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Almost definitely if Harriet is in charge. If Barb is capable of telling her sister to fuck off, she might welcome Chris back :cryblood:

But would he return to a home with his toys intact, or one Harriet has cleaned out?
 
Ophelia said:
Almost definitely if Harriet is in charge. If Barb is capable of telling her sister to fuck off, she might welcome Chris back :cryblood:

But would he return to a home with his toys intact, or one Harriet has cleaned out?
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I was thinking more if someone is actually there and the locks have been changed....
 
Myrtle the Turtle said:
Im thinking its closets. It might be how the county inspector defines 'rooms'. Could be different than a conventional bedroom/bathroom.

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This is 40 Meadow Lane, a house that was built the same year as 14 Branchland and in the same neighborhood. I'm 90% sure its the same developer just with slightly different features. Whats even better is it hasn't been remodeled so it still has the original interior features from the late 70s similar to Chris' hoarding dump.

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/40-Meadow-Ln_Ruckersville_VA_22968_M66996-63139

This shows what Chris' house would look like if someone just put effort in the upkeep.
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Very interesting find. This house appears to have almost exactly the same floor plan as 14BC. The first photo is the kitchen, of course, and the second photo is probably the old music room/Chris's current bedroom. Some other pictures I was able to match up:

Living room (second floor, on the right at the top of the stairs). Filled with crap and uninhabitable in 2009. Now Barb's bedroom.
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Second floor bathroom. Compare 14BC in 2009 from Tour of Chris's House.
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Second floor hallway. Bathroom is on the right, Chris's old bedroom is on the left, and another bedroom (never seen at 14BC) is at the end of the hall.
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Chris's old bedroom, seen from the doorway (the reverse angle of most of his videos). Compare 14BC in 2013 from Tour of Chris's House II.
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The old family room/Chris's new "work" (i.e., Lego) room, where most of his newer videos were shot.
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Another view of the music room/Chris's new bedroom.
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Myrtle the Turtle said:
This shows what Chris' house would look like if someone just put effort in the upkeep.
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Norman B. Normal said:
This house appears to have almost exactly the same floor plan as 14BC.
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It's like looking into an alternate timeline where Barb didn't chase Bob down that hall at that bar.

Or maybe one where Borb were more responsible and didn't insist on "mainstreaming" Chris.

(also lol that bright orange carpet and wood panel wall)
 
The Dude said:
14BC is a split-level house, a style of house built in the 60s and early 70s, well after oil furnaces had been replaced by natural gas units. The Chandlers likely just didn't want to pony up the scratch to upgrade their A/C to central air or were happy enough with a swamp cooler and window units.
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thought they'd put in central AC when they rebuilt after the horde fire
 
Astro Loafo said:
If I was rich I would buy it as is and turn it into a haunted house attraction. I'd even excavate to create lower floors
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Pretty sure you can’t dig 2 inches without hitting a dead pet in a shallow grave.


Do we have any confirmation yet if barbs has moved out?

Just watching the last Geno Samuel (or GFM I forget there both in the same time period right now) documentary it has Chris screaming into his camera begging people to buy stuff from eBay because he has mortgage payments.

Granted a lot of the desperation came from Chris giving away tons of money to idea guys but I am under the assumption that without Chris, barbs couldn’t keep up with mortgage payments.
 
The house will have to be sold if Barb's family (is there any besides Chris?) wants Medicare to pay for the nursing home that she really should be in.
 
normankrasner said:
thought they'd put in central AC when they rebuilt after the horde fire
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They may have, I don't really know or care. I do know that Chris put in one of those small window units since the house was rebuilt. Could be that the air vents were blocked by hoard in the room that he installed the window A/C, which is one shortcoming of central air (a shortcoming that most people don't need to worry about since most people aren't nasty hoarders). I'm just fairly familiar with homes made in that era and what equipment commonly came with the homes: swamp coolers, natural gas heating, shitty aluminum wiring that gets brittle, breaks, and starts house fires.
 
Maybe they didn’t want to spend the money on central air?
 
So for now we've got nothing to confirm barbs moved out or thrown away Chris's stuff. Just that for the first time in over 20 years the place has gone quiet and the locals don't have to look out their windows to see if the tranny weirdo of rickersville is out and about.
 
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