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EWU Crew hey EWU I’m new here just wanna say hi and love the vids, could you please send me the coordinates to these houses I swear one was a friends he left for Australia? I’m not sure though I’m heading stateside soon for a film project so I wanna check out some abandoned places
Why would people build these then just up and abandon them??? I don't get it. Its obvious they wouldn't have water before they were built and I didn't see power poles. Really nice homes. So is this public land also???
Living in arizona, and working here, I would say someone bought the land and wanted to start high dollar investment property. However, the market crashed several years ago and with the remoteness of this location, the properties would have been a hard sell. It is not uncommon for a couple houses to be built out here only to be model homes to sell plots to build more homes.
I know... Like I watch these videos thinking stuff like "I can go here and fix these houses up" and some people might say "leave the houses alone" but if you leave them alone forever they start breaking down.. I would totally live in one of these abandoned houses if the geography was right.. I don't get the point of destroying beautiful houses like this
Ao places like this why not put into hud housing wtf could of been a tax write-off for the company family could have had a fabulous home what a win-win situation instead of a lose-lose situation
There is a little known law that if you homestead a place for like 7 years and make improvements while you are there..the house automatically becomes yours legally. The house must be vacant of course to be able to get it that way, but these houses would be worth doing that..They are really nice homes if they were fixed back up.
Sure, if you have a lot of money to throw around. I question if these places ever even had power. I don't think they would make actual good houses without some serious work which could take quite a bit of money, time and individual effort to complete. Especially considering you couldn't really hire anyone to work on the place for you. They don't even have toilets or bathtubs installed. Though if you're just looking for a roof over your head and total isolation they probably wouldn't be so bad as is... if of course you're not allergic to bees.
@@RichardsWorld Electricity can be generated by solar panels... it´s in the middle of the desert. Internet may be available via mobile internet, or else just wait a year until Starlink is available. For water you could maybe dig a well, lay pipes which could be worth it since those are 5 or 6 houses or you could just buy a very big tank and get the water delivered once or twice a month. It world be difficult but not impossible at all
@@SpimeTV Maybe not impossible, but certainly illogical. What you'd get out of unfinished places like this wouldn't be worth the amount of work you'd have to put in to make one comfortable or the legal loopholes you'd have to find just to make anything happen. Too much time effort and money for the kind of person who would even consider living here in the first place.
The Mohave County approved the Silverado Ranch Master Planned Community in 2006. The developers had purchased 4800 acres of land outside Kingman AZ. The community called for more than 12,000 homes, an 18 hole golf course, with more than 1600 acres of commercial development and schools. The project was scratched in 2008 due to the US Housing crash, soon after plans for a 1 billion dollar solar plant was approved by the county. Unfortunately, the developer never filed an application with the Arizona Corporate Commision, and the plant was never built.
It's sad that someone invested in these homes and still look great. I just don't comprehend how folks just abandon these homes when many would appreciate to just have a place. Thanks for sharing.
Ive been working from home for over a month now due to all the recent craziness in the world and your videos are the only thing that has kept me from going crazy from boredom. ❤ Thank you
Love all the places that you and your daughter have shared with us. The fact that you spend some awesome time with your beautiful daughter, shows that you are one amazing father. I am addicted to your videos. Very addictive. It makes you wonder why a person or company would spend that much money to build such beautiful homes to just abandon them. It's a question we all wonder. I'd love to know the story to why they abandoned them!
FYI for those of you who are or were interested in buying here...check out the following carefully. No electric and costs big bucks to move it in. With solar tho it might still be workable. Then there is the problem with water. My guess is it has problems to get it piped in or unable to drill to it due to depth. Beautiful places but with risks you might not expect.
I would too but you gotta realize the negatives! All the windows are broken, all doors are either open or unlocked, and it looks like it would be scorching hot in the day and cold af at night.
I remember this place I did the the plumbing on these houses the owners decided that it was better to sell the land then to build and finish those houses so they still own the property and are selling the land peace buy peace and last I heard there where going to lease the land to a solor company to build a huge solor plant man its sad to see the status of those houses when we where building those houses we had to fight. The bees back then
@Blue sky yes there where wells that was going to feed three houses off them the first house in the video its in front of that house there was no power there yet they where looking in to it on how to get it to there or they where going to run diesel generator for power
I worked on many homes in AZ ...its was Great working out in the Desert... Mornings was Beautiful... Maybe I'll move back.... White Tank 🗻 I'm coming home..... Thank you
If this place is what I think it is, it was the Silverado master-planned community and the 200-megawatt Albiasa solar plant both slated to be built on the property. The project was approved in 2006. It would have covered more than 4.8K acres of land on both sides of U.S. 93 near where it intersects with Interstate 40 east of Kingman, AZ. Plans called for more than 12,000 apartments & homes, a golf course and more than 1,600 acres of commercial development, schools, utilities and a clubhouse. When the 2008 housing market crash stalled any further development of Silverado, the developers wanted to rezone 1,400 acres of the Silverado community for the $1B Albiasa solar plant. After much controversy over the amount of groundwater the plant would use, the county finally approved the zoning for the plant in 2009. But Albiasa never applied to the Arizona Corporation Commission for approval and the project was never built.
I work in economic development for my community. I would love for some developers to co.e into my community like this! We are a rare growing rural town and in a bit of housing crisis.
this was great - btw, if you are interested, you can freely search tax records, ownership records and such and track down what this development was intended to be and why / when it failed. Just saying!
At least on the west coast, you go to the County Assessor's website & at the least you should be able to find the county's map that show parcels. Clicking on the parcel should give you more information such as county assessed value, current taxes, taxes owing. Some will have owner's names, others not unless you visit the office personally. In other parts of the country, the Assessor records may be handled online by a different department.
Looks like a bankrupt housing project . If it failed due to lack of money and not something else those houses could be saved, as long as the foundations and the bones are good. The windows ,doors and other finish work can be replaced and holes in walls fixed and all repainted. Lets just hope the killer bees get some of the punk ass vandals ! LOL
Doesn't looks like a housing project. It's a different style big houses. It's a subdivision but the least left it for some reason before it even finished.
cbgreenbay i’d say these were built during the times in 06-07 when people started losing money, demand for houses and the market crashed. everything went downhill hence the bankrupt housing project.
That is exactly what they are. I moved to Bullhead City in 2007 and this place was already abandoned by then. I used to drive past this place when I wanted to avoid the weigh station and would see cars parked there occasionally. There used to be heavy equipment there that was abandoned, the company that was building went bankrupt in the process of making this place.
I don't think they're showing any disrespect; they're walking through them, but the owners' can't respect their own property enough to keep it maintained.
Yo, you really out here tryna give everyone alcohol poisoning. Wtf man. hehehe jk. That honestly made me giggle I was thinking the same thing in the beginning. Think he said it like 8 times in just under 2 minutes. haha :) I seriously adore him and his family. Wish I would've found the channel sooner. I know they're not doing videos with them in it anymore, but none the less the channel is seriously awesome and everything that's put out is such great content! :)
Very neat find. I came across something like that in Patterson, CA in the early 90's. Houses were not as far along (unfinished walls, few windows), but it was very apocalyptic. This reminded me of my more youthful days, when I'd fill up the tank, pull out a map(!!), pick a direction, and go.
Eric Markovic Its not the home by itself that's so expensive, its the land. There's lots of land here and its the desert so its cheap. Most people don't want to live in the middle of nowhere in a desert.
Breanne Huxtable they seem like model homes, so somewhere these houses are on a proper street with real families living in it. If they are model homes, it would also explain why they are in the middle of nowhere
Ya Breanne.....I also think how soon this life passes as well and how we work our asses off to maintain these homes, cars, all material things we slave over and then, just like that, they are gone and so our we. I watch man abandoned places videos, it amazes me and makes me think, there has got to be something better then how us humans live/work to survive~
There's 10 times more vacant homes than homeless people in the US. Capitalism doesn't work that way. That's the problem. If you have something you can give for free, you shelve it and find a different way that makes a profit.
These houses are actually in really good shape. The bulk of the buildings are complete but would likely need 10-20K each to finish each place off. That is not, however, counting getting electrical, water and waste treatment all updated and working.
If they built the houses b4 even finding out about electricity, which is insane, I read it in these comments. It would cost a fortune to run electricity out there. Also if they did that it makes me wonder if they researched the water situation thoroughly. Another fortune to make that happen. So I assume it just turned into a money hole. Sad some would be beautiful houses!
Hey I wonder if anyone owns them and would be willing to sell. They could be really awesome houses. With some fixing up some paint and interior finishing. Also Vandals Make me see Red. Vandals=a waste of good oxygen.
They're at least 3 hours from the nearest gas station or grocery store. What would you want in the middle of no where. They were speculating that Phoenix would expand and grow like crazy but it didn't happen.
He once told me that they wanted to start looking into that case. I think they might do some detective work when have more information. The location of the cave is still a mystery after all
Thats not blood. blood doesn't stay bright red. it either changes to blackish red to dark brown. if there was any plasma in it, it would have been yellowish
Anti-Social listen sherlock , he said I. Was fake blood, if you would slow down and listen before you had to post and show everyone how clever you are then you would have heard that he called it fake blood 3 times
You know someone like me can't even dream of having a place like this because I know it would never happen. But when I see these nice places that's been explored I think one of Shame I don't know why anybody wants to tell them up
Yeah they're definitely model homes. Because they actually look finished but at the same time not because of vandalism probably. Or maybe they are houses but the company/people building them ran out of money.
A guy I worked with built a lot of homes in California pre-2006. He moved to Colorado in 2008 to find work (how I ended up meeting him). A lot of contractors built subdivisions in the middle of no-where because California was anticipating a continued and sustained housing boom, so they built these to keep up with demand. Of course, that was based on faulty speculation about the health of the housing markets. To make a long story short, they built thousands of homes out in the middle of no-where preparing for a housing boom and the expansion of cities, then in 2006 California housing market collapsed. In the subsequent years a lot of the subdivisions were squatted in by illegal migrants and people coming from Mexico. Rather than try to sell the homes and recoup any lost money, a lot of developers simply tore the subdivisions down. It's hard to say if this is an example, wherever it is, but it's likely a related situation. Markets everywhere began to collapse following California.
Bees ain't no joke. Honey bees will only sting you once and their stinger detaches from their body and they die, but wasps are worse. They can repeatedly sting you over and over again, and they can follow you up to a mile. They're very territorial. Im 6'6 280lbs and I'm not scared of anything but wasps. If I see one pissed off and coming at me I will run like a lil school girl lol! When I was a kid I almost went down like Thomas J. from the movie "My Girl", i was swarmed by wasps and had no where to go, i dont remember alot about it, but I know I got really sick. Ever since then I don't mess with bees or wasps.
I remember as a kid always poking at wasp nest until they came out and I'd try to hit them with a stick, then I would take down their nest, good times.
Ivan Nava yea i never did that, i was too scared of em lol. Although everytime a bumble bee would be around i would take a rock and throw it in the air and watch the bumble bee chase it. Its pretty cool, they are very territorial. If you ever see one you should try that. Its pretty neat.
Man, you guys have some big hearts. I like the fact that you see what was, what could have been, and to question what happened. Thanks for calling out vandals. I can tell your honesty is real. I subscribed after watching a half dozen of you travels. One of the best things I’ve noticed about you two is the fact that you sincerely ask your viewers opinions and help to understand things you don’t know or understand. I’ve watched other tubers who see an old piece of technology or architecture and make some random BS statement leaving us old guys going WTF, just how stupid are you. Thanks for being real and for Gods sake watch your 6 out there.
only problem with those built-in entertainment centers is that they were made for the old BIG CRT TVs & because of flatscreen TVs they were instantly outta date
Unless there is some underground utilities that isn't visible in the videos, that is probably the reason for abandonment. Lots of developers bought up cheap tracts of Arizona land and built on it before they discovered the cost of bringing electrical power to the build sites. Maybe there wasn't any water nearby. Also, many places were developed and sold with false advertising in the '60's, '70's, and '80's. Like Meadview, AZ. None of those homes are so badly vandalized that they couldn't be fixed up. Most is just windows and some sheet rock. Still, if there is no water and/or no electricity, you might not want to move in unless you want to live off the grid. Solar panels will solve one of the problems.. 8^)
Earl Yates Agree with you...plus saw on another videos of abandoned homes in Georgia, were abandoned and developer arrested etc...no utilities electric, water as you mentioned, plus other said sewer! Could be issues here, add bees, and out in nowhere reasons why abandoned.
That's exactly what I was thinking; a property in development when the crash struck, and suddenly there was no money, so they just abandoned it. All kinds of places like that here in metro Atlanta after the crash, but it's finally starting to show signs of new development (fall of '19). Still WAY too many abandoned, trashed places though -- why don't they knock the damn things down? Total eyesores!
Thanks for the tour 🖒. I just can't wrap my head around the fact that there are really nice home's like this abandoned. Anything's possible.....even killer bees...lol 😀
Diggin your content and you have a new subscriber. If you guys visit southern AZ and need a place to crash let me know. Keep up the great work and 🐝safe.
Things like this amaze me. Like...how did a developer build this yet was so short sighted that he couldn't even complete the projects? I understand the concept of model homes, but this wasn't even completed. The infrastructure isn't even there... roads, drainage, etc. Such a shame to waste valuable resources. This capital could have been invested in something useful. What a waste.
Sad that people like me and my self are breaking our back to provide for myself and a pregnant girlfriend when there are nice houses like this just left to rot out in the middle of nowhere.
Sounds like the results of capitalism. I suggest supporting the pro worker unions around your town! It’s better advice than:” why’d anybody complain about quality of life/lifestyle? Doesn’t everyone have the same abilities and resources to do whatever any American can for the American dream?” Short answer is, no. Very few people can ever actually achieve a house. Let alone two for business. @Michel Chapman , I feel like you, completely understand that same condition here. Stick up for the “little guy” living an honest life, it’s key. :)
Out there they will definitely be at least partially Africanized so important to respect them and keep distance. That experiment gone wrong is so sad as the European honey bees are tame compared to these. Never bothered me growing up.
Honey bee Hive collapse is still a very real problem . But Africanized bees are still on the rise in the southwest. It's believed the honey bees are being affected by pesticides and the spread of Africanized bees from the south.
We have decreased our use of pesticides since we learned it was affecting them. The Honeybee is making a comeback but it's going to take more time to see the full results. I'm going off a recent study...
Too bad bad people seem to think they should destroy these places. They don't think about anyone but themselves. It's going to cost someone a lot of money to repair them. I wonder if the land owners had intended to expand into the desert. It is possible. I see it in So Cal a lot now(past Big Bear towards Vegas.i think more people need to see Flip or Flop and Fixer Upper. Then they'll see how much it costs to repair what they destroyed. Thousands of dollars.
imagine living there, watching TV in the evening and then you decide to look outside the window into the nature and you can see a human shadow far away. what the heck would you do?
Vandal , extremely uneducated dumbasses , that will never know more than vandalism and smoking home made crack , just complete idiots , a strain on society
Who the f.... buy land and build a house the middle of nowhere, where there is no water and temperature rises up to 120 degrees, and really can't see any jobs in the area
