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By the Numbers: How to handle homes abandoned during the housing crisis
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<blockquote data-quote="M_Smith" data-source="post: 1643560" data-attributes="member: 9"><p><a href="http://simplefeed.consumerreports.org/rsrc/link/_/by_the_numbers_how_to_handle_homes_abandoned_dur_290058051?h=lkghb5dLhNHfZ0p8k80xQBSqNQiCg3NoPgzvTVhDuxg*&f=3dcb3160-01dc-11dc-32a2-0019bbc55f7f" target="_blank"><img src="http://simplefeed.consumerreports.org/rsrc/i/1/_/by_the_numbers_how_to_handle_homes_abandoned_dur_290058051/4.gif?f=3dcb3160-01dc-11dc-32a2-0019bbc55f7f&s=AewyNia7NTvDvhaDemju5DEsbnVsbCwwLDA*" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a> <strong>By the Numbers: How to handle homes abandoned during the housing crisis</strong></p><p> [SIZE=-1]<span style="color: #333333"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #ff7f00"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><strong>125 years</strong></span></span></p></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="color: #ff7f00"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><strong></strong></span></span></p><p>Time it would take for a totally neglected wood-frame house to fall to the ground, according to Alan Weisman, author of the 2007 best seller <em><a href="http://simplefeed.consumerreports.org/rsrc/link/_/by_the_numbers_how_to_handle_homes_abandoned_dur_290058051?h=lkghb5dLhNEir5HGEoWgxa6Cl1YhOPe-kPBuFwH5UmcAfVlvyI-fIktEBX2c0VVk&f=3dcb3160-01dc-11dc-32a2-0019bbc55f7f" target="_blank">The World Without Us</a></em>. Watch the hypothetical structure's full 500-year demise in "<a href="http://simplefeed.consumerreports.org/rsrc/link/_/by_the_numbers_how_to_handle_homes_abandoned_dur_290058051?h=lkghb5dLhNEir5HGEoWgxa6Cl1YhOPe-GZAbd4lvyTVaIeLBO3Tu_EtEBX2c0VVk&f=3dcb3160-01dc-11dc-32a2-0019bbc55f7f" target="_blank">Your House Without You</a>," a companion animated video to his book. Weisman's what-if scenario has become part of the <a href="http://simplefeed.consumerreports.org/rsrc/link/_/by_the_numbers_how_to_handle_homes_abandoned_dur_290058051?h=K8na31_CtWjzZPQan91wh74k-wy5tlCFTWNXWMHjSCSN5b7jtK-1HGdoC-Io4RDAti8MNEfbPFLLGT8g-NAqw-oRCFOpYKyf&f=3dcb3160-01dc-11dc-32a2-0019bbc55f7f" target="_blank">ongoing debate</a> about what should happen to the homes in <a href="http://simplefeed.consumerreports.org/rsrc/link/_/by_the_numbers_how_to_handle_homes_abandoned_dur_290058051?h=SQ7hXg4uOhivWSWaGOExPiAM1bgi8joz6HT52RUIBc528BpKiAPRdUtGWgKDswsQhufq2li2q2Ol_ih2ZFw6K1f11DR54I9SQZKzJF9idiePmtDk_W6bRkgwHhUug18rwuF5ci1wunyBDPaH8l9YEF8jYqaN2gx9&f=3dcb3160-01dc-11dc-32a2-0019bbc55f7f" target="_blank">boomburgs/boomburbs</a> that sit abandoned or were never finished in the first place. Let nature run its course, extremists say. <a href="http://simplefeed.consumerreports.org/rsrc/link/_/by_the_numbers_how_to_handle_homes_abandoned_dur_290058051?h=lkghb5dLhNFbw_aEesygaQ-AlmWTddplS_rgiNjXdVs*&f=3dcb3160-01dc-11dc-32a2-0019bbc55f7f" target="_blank">New Urbanists</a> take a more proactive view, arguing that there are ways to revitalize these 21st-century ghost towns.</span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><strong>Essential information: </strong>Read "<a href="http://simplefeed.consumerreports.org/rsrc/link/_/by_the_numbers_how_to_handle_homes_abandoned_dur_290058051?h=SQ7hXg4uOhivWSWaGOExPiAM1bgi8joz6HT52RUIBc528BpKiAPRdY4zBSjq4h-IpCa0p92YBlU8daLAXJYVEMnmsUk6ah12&f=3dcb3160-01dc-11dc-32a2-0019bbc55f7f" target="_blank">10 Questions for . . . Marianne Cusato</a>" for more details on New Urbanism.</span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"></span>[/SIZE] <a href="http://simplefeed.consumerreports.org/rsrc/link/_/by_the_numbers_how_to_handle_homes_abandoned_dur_290058051?h=EMGQu_pYbnLQk-AoJUgvKL7uN07zprmFHJTh_uOu0nVEaY507T_dQ7280s-BKgJYCmgUIOpL-xop127KJWiCRQ**&f=3dcb3160-01dc-11dc-32a2-0019bbc55f7f" target="_blank">[SIZE=-1]<span style="color: #4682B4"><strong>Subscribe now!</strong></span>[/SIZE]</a></p><p> Subscribe to <a href="http://simplefeed.consumerreports.org/rsrc/link/_/by_the_numbers_how_to_handle_homes_abandoned_dur_290058051?h=lkghb5dLhNHfZ0p8k80xQBSqNQiCg3NoG2hBewCMmSQ*&f=3dcb3160-01dc-11dc-32a2-0019bbc55f7f" target="_blank">[SIZE=-1]<span style="color: #4682B4"><strong>ConsumerReports.org</strong></span>[/SIZE]</a> for expert Ratings, buying advice and reliability on hundreds of products. <a href="http://simplefeed.consumerreports.org/rsrc/link/_/by_the_numbers_how_to_handle_homes_abandoned_dur_290058051?h=42ns3XNFVsghbYvvBdqvq7VmE1eJOXftMFuTbEcKVVvTRtbzVy1X173LUKyDYofsvHAYzAWOViUh3Ymr1FYU02P29Yd04_zvsMmPQ0CVHc49VlLqMtC6dMqxogNhdytt&f=3dcb3160-01dc-11dc-32a2-0019bbc55f7f" target="_blank">[SIZE=-1]<span style="color: #4682B4"><strong>Update your feed preferences</strong></span>[/SIZE]</a> <img src="http://simplefeed.consumerreports.org/p/1/_/by_the_numbers_how_to_handle_homes_abandoned_dur_290058051?f=3dcb3160-01dc-11dc-32a2-0019bbc55f7f" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="M_Smith, post: 1643560, member: 9"] [URL="http://simplefeed.consumerreports.org/rsrc/link/_/by_the_numbers_how_to_handle_homes_abandoned_dur_290058051?h=lkghb5dLhNHfZ0p8k80xQBSqNQiCg3NoPgzvTVhDuxg*&f=3dcb3160-01dc-11dc-32a2-0019bbc55f7f"][IMG]http://simplefeed.consumerreports.org/rsrc/i/1/_/by_the_numbers_how_to_handle_homes_abandoned_dur_290058051/4.gif?f=3dcb3160-01dc-11dc-32a2-0019bbc55f7f&s=AewyNia7NTvDvhaDemju5DEsbnVsbCwwLDA*[/IMG][/URL] [B]By the Numbers: How to handle homes abandoned during the housing crisis[/B] [SIZE=-1][COLOR=#333333][CENTER][COLOR=#ff7f00][FONT=Tahoma][B]125 years [/B][/FONT][/COLOR][/CENTER] Time it would take for a totally neglected wood-frame house to fall to the ground, according to Alan Weisman, author of the 2007 best seller [I][URL="http://simplefeed.consumerreports.org/rsrc/link/_/by_the_numbers_how_to_handle_homes_abandoned_dur_290058051?h=lkghb5dLhNEir5HGEoWgxa6Cl1YhOPe-kPBuFwH5UmcAfVlvyI-fIktEBX2c0VVk&f=3dcb3160-01dc-11dc-32a2-0019bbc55f7f"]The World Without Us[/URL][/I]. Watch the hypothetical structure's full 500-year demise in "[URL="http://simplefeed.consumerreports.org/rsrc/link/_/by_the_numbers_how_to_handle_homes_abandoned_dur_290058051?h=lkghb5dLhNEir5HGEoWgxa6Cl1YhOPe-GZAbd4lvyTVaIeLBO3Tu_EtEBX2c0VVk&f=3dcb3160-01dc-11dc-32a2-0019bbc55f7f"]Your House Without You[/URL]," a companion animated video to his book. Weisman's what-if scenario has become part of the [URL="http://simplefeed.consumerreports.org/rsrc/link/_/by_the_numbers_how_to_handle_homes_abandoned_dur_290058051?h=K8na31_CtWjzZPQan91wh74k-wy5tlCFTWNXWMHjSCSN5b7jtK-1HGdoC-Io4RDAti8MNEfbPFLLGT8g-NAqw-oRCFOpYKyf&f=3dcb3160-01dc-11dc-32a2-0019bbc55f7f"]ongoing debate[/URL] about what should happen to the homes in [URL="http://simplefeed.consumerreports.org/rsrc/link/_/by_the_numbers_how_to_handle_homes_abandoned_dur_290058051?h=SQ7hXg4uOhivWSWaGOExPiAM1bgi8joz6HT52RUIBc528BpKiAPRdUtGWgKDswsQhufq2li2q2Ol_ih2ZFw6K1f11DR54I9SQZKzJF9idiePmtDk_W6bRkgwHhUug18rwuF5ci1wunyBDPaH8l9YEF8jYqaN2gx9&f=3dcb3160-01dc-11dc-32a2-0019bbc55f7f"]boomburgs/boomburbs[/URL] that sit abandoned or were never finished in the first place. Let nature run its course, extremists say. [URL="http://simplefeed.consumerreports.org/rsrc/link/_/by_the_numbers_how_to_handle_homes_abandoned_dur_290058051?h=lkghb5dLhNFbw_aEesygaQ-AlmWTddplS_rgiNjXdVs*&f=3dcb3160-01dc-11dc-32a2-0019bbc55f7f"]New Urbanists[/URL] take a more proactive view, arguing that there are ways to revitalize these 21st-century ghost towns. [B]Essential information: [/B]Read "[URL="http://simplefeed.consumerreports.org/rsrc/link/_/by_the_numbers_how_to_handle_homes_abandoned_dur_290058051?h=SQ7hXg4uOhivWSWaGOExPiAM1bgi8joz6HT52RUIBc528BpKiAPRdY4zBSjq4h-IpCa0p92YBlU8daLAXJYVEMnmsUk6ah12&f=3dcb3160-01dc-11dc-32a2-0019bbc55f7f"]10 Questions for . . . Marianne Cusato[/URL]" for more details on New Urbanism. [/COLOR][/SIZE] [URL="http://simplefeed.consumerreports.org/rsrc/link/_/by_the_numbers_how_to_handle_homes_abandoned_dur_290058051?h=EMGQu_pYbnLQk-AoJUgvKL7uN07zprmFHJTh_uOu0nVEaY507T_dQ7280s-BKgJYCmgUIOpL-xop127KJWiCRQ**&f=3dcb3160-01dc-11dc-32a2-0019bbc55f7f"][SIZE=-1][COLOR=#4682B4][B]Subscribe now![/B][/COLOR][/SIZE][/URL] Subscribe to [URL="http://simplefeed.consumerreports.org/rsrc/link/_/by_the_numbers_how_to_handle_homes_abandoned_dur_290058051?h=lkghb5dLhNHfZ0p8k80xQBSqNQiCg3NoG2hBewCMmSQ*&f=3dcb3160-01dc-11dc-32a2-0019bbc55f7f"][SIZE=-1][COLOR=#4682B4][B]ConsumerReports.org[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE][/URL] for expert Ratings, buying advice and reliability on hundreds of products. [URL="http://simplefeed.consumerreports.org/rsrc/link/_/by_the_numbers_how_to_handle_homes_abandoned_dur_290058051?h=42ns3XNFVsghbYvvBdqvq7VmE1eJOXftMFuTbEcKVVvTRtbzVy1X173LUKyDYofsvHAYzAWOViUh3Ymr1FYU02P29Yd04_zvsMmPQ0CVHc49VlLqMtC6dMqxogNhdytt&f=3dcb3160-01dc-11dc-32a2-0019bbc55f7f"][SIZE=-1][COLOR=#4682B4][B]Update your feed preferences[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE][/URL] [IMG]http://simplefeed.consumerreports.org/p/1/_/by_the_numbers_how_to_handle_homes_abandoned_dur_290058051?f=3dcb3160-01dc-11dc-32a2-0019bbc55f7f[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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