[quote=bearishgurl]Yeah, ucodegen, I also thought the trailer (Conex) may have been used to store things in because the house had been flooded. I do agree that a “roll on” with an open-top (with one end open, if desired) would be better to use to get rid of debris. However, with county parcels which are lower than the street (as this one is), I’ve seen multiple instances where a gravel or dirt … or even muddy half-circle driveway made it impossible for a tractor trailer to deliver a roll-on and set it down on the property. The driveway was too steep, too slippery, a weird angle, etc and there was a danger that the tractor trailer would end up inadvertently backing into the house.
I feel the previous homeowner brought that thing down with his own vehicles and it was still there when the flipper bought it. It is possible that the property was vacant for some or all of years between when the google street view photo was taken and when the flipper bought it in November 2015.
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Conex(s) are considerably heavier than a roll on. They are reinforced to be stacked on ship and handle the motion while on the bottom of a stack of conex(s) on ship. They are reinforced on the edges for stacking and along the sides and doors to handle product shift during transport. Conex(s) don’t come with wheels, they are transported by semi, much like a roll on. Personally, I would rather a semi deliver something heavy than trying to jockey it with a pickup/trailer. The weight of the semi is safety on uneven ground, and the number of tires is traction and control ( twin axle duals). It will be heavier than the object being delivered. On the other hand, a conex or roll on could outpower a pickup on uneven ground – NOTE: I say this as an owner of a 1 ton 4×4 pickup who also offroads it.
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Thanks for panning the street in google to see the continuation of the crack. I didn’t bother to do that.
[/quote]I used to do some satellite image exploitation, and in my hobby of photography, I tend to pixel peep – so it tends to be part of my ‘behavior’ with images.[quote=bearishgurl]
The prior tax roll value on the current supplemental tax bill is only $75,949. For that area, this indicates an approximate late ’70’s purchase by one or more of the owners (or their benefactors).[/quote]
Probably when the asphalt shingles were put on. The weathering looks like over 30 years – to get that far down to the felt.