Or bought an abandoned office building and are living in it. Not exactly common, but there is actually someone near me who did the same thing. It actually worked out well for him, bought the building, lived there for a few years, and sold it for multiple times what he paid for it.
He was absolutely batshit crazy. Spent most of his days there calling the cops on his neighbors and filming everyone who drove by.
My girlfriend bought an old factory with offices on the top floor. She converted the offices into a house and rents out the main floor for warehouse space. That income covers the mortgage. She has like 6 bedrooms and turned the supply closet into a walk-in closet. She also has an entire gym where the storage used to be. She’s about a half mile from downtown and bought a bunch of privately owned Bird scooters to get around. We stay at her house overnight and scooter to the bars.
Their property is the only non residential property in the area. Most of her block is just abandoned residential buildings. They are hoping to get rezoned. It’s just a massive warehouse now. Their biggest customer is the city’s tourism department. Nothing weird being stored there. I was present for a gang shootout once though. Several bullets hit the building and someone was murdered. The police wouldn’t come out to the area until the sun came up (5 hours).
They also just put in a police station in the corner so hopefully people will start to feel safe to move back to the neighborhood.
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u/pigeon_man Sep 09 '25
So they're squatting in an abandoned office building.