My farmhouse burned down last week.

[Black92LX]

I got word that my farmhouse had burned down last week. Made it down a couple days after to assess the damage.
The house was built in the mid 1800s and purchased by my great grandfather in the early 1920s he then built on by adding a bedroom and a bathroom shortly after that. The house has stood there until last week. My great grandmother lived in the house until 2001 when she moved to the nursing home. since then it has just been there and falling apart.
I hired some folks to tear it down and haul away everything. Strangely the night before they were to begin working it burned to the ground. They swear they did not do it but I smell foul and they decided it would be much easier to just torch it then actually tear it down and haul everything away.
Some may say ohh well at least it's down. Sorry I don't see it that way I hired someone to do a job in a specific way and dispose of the remains in a certain fashion if I wanted to have it burned I would have done it myself. The second trouble being had my uncle not returned home when he did (he has a house across the driveway) he would have lost his house that he just built 3 months ago. He came home to my house a blaze and starting to melt the siding on his home. So as he watched my place burn he was busy hosig down his house as not to loose his.
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[Black92LX]

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[Black92LX]

But with destruction comes rebirth or something like that.
Had a little time to work on my other farmhouse.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v432/Black92LX/IMG_0270.jpg

This place is pretty much finished. I put in a new hot water tank and just to the left of the coal house that you see in the picture I had a 20'x30' concrete slab poured for the barn to keep the tractor in.
Here is an old pic from the porch of the house.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v432/Black92LX/Picture144.jpg
Two summers ago I had a pond dug just down from where I am bush hogging.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v432/Black92LX/IMG_0278.jpg
Pond is finally all filled up now.

I have one last project on that house before it is finished. Need to run a larger water line to be able to boost the pressure to the house.
After that when I go down all I have to do is relax enjoy the few, fish a little bit, bush hog a little and just escape the everyday routine.

This house was built in 1927 and 1928 by my other great grandfather. My great uncle lived there until 2006 when he passed away. As I was going through my uncles belongings after he passed I found the invoices where my great grandfather purchased the houe building kit from Sear Roebuck and the lumber invoice.So the house has been kept up I just needed to do a few little add ons here and there. But it is a nice escape.

[PaulFiveOh]

Did you pay those guys up front?

[Black92LX]

paid a deposit.
If they return to remove the burned remains they may get some of the rest we had agreed to.

Thought about getting Kentucky State Police involved and do an Arson investigation but pursuant to Kentucky State law it only constitutes arson if one is trying to defraud an insurer and not an individual.
Since I hired them to tear it down technically the did not break the law. It would all be a civil matter and not one I am willing to take the time and effort to pursue as long as they clean it up.

[99Slobra]

Fishy as hell...

[DOPE3]

yep smells like fish to me

[aperacer]

is there anyone living in the other house... is so that would be aggravited arson...with the houses being that close...it would be a stretch but it is tangable...

[R825OH]

thats a shame no loss of life thouigh is good..

[Kelly Pelrine]

Wow that stinks. Other than the house, i hope you didnt lose anything of value. I know you said you were going to tear it down anyway but still, just doesnt seem right. I would think if you asked the fire dept to investigate, they would???? Someone out there is responsible, not only for that but for the damage to your uncles house too.

[menace07]

That sucks. I know in cincy that would have been investigated by the fire dept for sure, especially under those circumstances. Did the fire dept. tell you what they thought the cause of the fire was?

[Black92LX]

That farm house is far far in the country at the base of a mountain there is no fire department. The fire department is your hose.

The way the Arson law is written in Ky it doesn't classify. They already had a contract to destroy the building so they are covered on that aspect. It's is only unlawful to defraud an insurer in the case of arson. I am not an insurer.

There was no damage to the uncles house because he got home in time and was able to keep water on his house saving the siding.

Technically I could call out the Kentucky State Police to investigate but it just wouldn't be worth my time.
The only grounds I really have are civil and that is not worth my time and effort either.