Epic WTF

The cost of demolition is prohibitive.

My brother lives in small town mid west USA. The house next door to him was fairly run down and came up for sale. It sold for $7000, which was a decent price. He wanted to buy it and flatten it to extend his own yard/garden but it would of cost far too much to do that.

Someone else bought it, threw $20,000 at it and sold it on for $70,000.

Local to me, some guy went about demolishing his newly purchased house. It was a well made 1930's house, both halves of semi.

He spent a couple months at it but got it done, literally using a sledge hammer etc and wheelbarrowing rubble into a big skip.

American houses should be easy to smash.