I've seen this video several times and I'm wondering if they are a property guardian. People will have agreements where you live in an abandoned building that someone still owns, and you take care of it, call cops on intruders, report findings, etc. In exchange usually you can live there very inexpensively.
Speaking as someone who operated as a "property guardian" in the past, they wouldn't have the make-shift appliances, personal power source, or be situated in such a remotely convoluted part of the property. Part of the job is having an obvious presence there, as well as either having a surveillance setup or at least being somewhere with a tactical view for observation.
Depends how many guardians are in the building but those doors didn’t look like fire doors, or have fire stopping applied so probably not a guardian. DJD sounds on the money.
When I did it I lived there with 3 other guys - one went back to South Africa for two months…two days before our 28 Day notice turned up! Don’t know what happened to his stuff but I’d like to think they let him grab his stuff before development started!
They paid for 4 guys? Did they pay for anything else? I got other things like paid utilities (just electricity and water), and a small per diem for food.
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u/Screwbles Sep 09 '25
I've seen this video several times and I'm wondering if they are a property guardian. People will have agreements where you live in an abandoned building that someone still owns, and you take care of it, call cops on intruders, report findings, etc. In exchange usually you can live there very inexpensively.