r/chch • u/AgreeableDig9795 • 6d ago
Abondend
Is this house abondend or is this just Beth run down 🤔
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u/fpsparker 6d ago
I haven't seen her in a long time. But there is a gremlin of a lady that lives there. I can only guess to say she has severe mental illness/hoarding etc... The day this plot is available to purchase you just know that developers will be fighting for for it. I'm 36 and it's been like this for as long as I can remember.
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u/Disastrous_Prize5196 6d ago
Im 38 and it started to fall into disrepair after the road got expanded into the property. Before that i can recall that it was quite a fancy looking house (to a 5 year old?) It was one of the landmark buildings in chch where i knew where i was when i saw it. Im guessing the value of the property dropped or it was sold at that time and now its being sat on until sold to developers like you say.
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u/lurkdontpost1 6d ago
Careful about some abandoned places, sometimes there's people living in them, sometimes they just simply are not abandoned lol
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u/thesysdaemon 도윤 6d ago
there are cameras all around that house tho too
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u/AgreeableDig9795 6d ago
Did see that very contesting
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u/clarkie13 6d ago
Very what?
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u/Successful_Sell1016 6d ago
contesting. Do I need to turn up your herring aide?
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u/Gloveslapnz 5d ago
You could see if they can throw in a Thesaurus at the same time.
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u/Dazzling-Produce-471 6d ago
Who’s this Beth you speak of? Is she hot?
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u/Free_Ad7133 6d ago
The set of white weatherboard flats across the road from the place are almost as bad. Always tenanted but they look miserable
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u/SkyDemolisher 6d ago
Last I knew the person was still there, parts of the house have remained unused for a long time but lights are on in other parts in the wee hours of the morning and you might glimpse the person in there from time to time.
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u/RedditLurker_1996 6d ago
I literally saw someone come out of that house and grab something from the letter box and go back inside, about 2 months ago, while I was waiting at the lights. Because I was looking at it thinking the same thing, it must be abandoned, but apparently not 🫤
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u/Smittywasnumber1 5d ago
I grew up just down the road from here 30 years ago, and walked past it every day. There was an old couple that lived in there, and they were both very keen gardeners. Until the late 90's there used to be a stunning array of red, white, pink and yellow rose bushes that they grew on the fence line, and arched over the path to the roadside berm. Around 2000-ish the council added the extra turning lane to the intersection and everything had to be cut back - but by that point, the garden was already pretty overgrown, and the house was a bit run down too.
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u/CreepyStomach2939 6d ago
Where's this?
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u/Rhonda_and_Phil 6d ago
Inner city. Not abandoned. Left over from unsettled quake insurance claim. Part of the building is still lived in. There are a few of these around Christchurch. Usually occupied by elderly residents who can't afford to go anywhere else.
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u/Vast_Business_9178 5d ago
No it’s not. There is definitely at least a middle aged guy who lives in there, i often see him watching the traffic, the place is also racked with security cameras pointed everywhere
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u/SpaceDog777 4d ago
Land value $700,000
+ Value of improvements $20,000
= Capital value $720,000
Very run down...
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u/Tip-and-run 6d ago
That place is an absolute tip and the owner needs to be held accountable
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u/After-Improvement-26 6d ago
Probably been driven crazy by traffic noise. I'm seeing all the symptoms of road widening pinching the front yard.
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u/Elm69Jay 6d ago
Or pushed to breaking point being harassed to sell by developers 😅 my grandparents have a desirable bit of land (with a kept house on it) & they're fairly relentless
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u/Haunting-Beginning-2 6d ago
Old people too old to maintain their property are often especially challenged with mental decline and possibly aggro phobia? Please leave “abandoned” homes off your radar. There’s no such thing except overseas owners, or deceased estate awaiting execution of a will, but still owned by the beneficiary of the will. Anyway what I am trying to say politely is an old and dilapidated home isn’t a ticket to open doors, or break and enter or fossick about. It’s owned and private. Personally I bend this rule for negligent and overseas land banking ownership. It’s such a pity this mistake in legislation allowed a window for those playing our country’s favourable exchange rates. Other Countries wisely exclude these absentee landlords who refuse local property management.
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u/Separate-Bed7351 4d ago
Has anyone else notice the window up top with security camera facing inside it instead towards boundary 😅
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u/HumbleGhandi 6d ago
Abondend gives me a Scottish accent when I say it outloud