Bwahahahaha..."totaled, loan, construction".
We used to have a lot of old farms in our area where the farmhouses looked like this but the last of them came down about three years ago to make way for the new development on the property. Part of me is happy to see them go because there's something so inherently mournful about a home in this condition; but the other part is sad because these were places families lived and worked and there's just no trace of them left anymore.
This area has seen the logging industry die off, the mining industry die off, and now agriculture is dying off. Rich folks are coming in and buying up HUGE swaths of land and then closing off county roads that run through them. Those of us trying to work and live here will become the servants to the rich people, or we will move. My house is not in much better shape, and we just can't afford to keep throwing money at trying to fix it - we know it will be torched by whoever buys it next. It is the first house built in this area, an awesome old charmer but not up to code so we can't sell it as a home, and barely standing up so we can't really count on it lasting us the rest of our lives.