Owned 7 Years and Seeing Parts of this Property for the First Time After the Tenants Moved Out!

This is a commercial property I bought in 2017 and I am showing it on YouTube for the first time. Not only am I showing it for the first time but I am seeing parts of it for the first time as well. I had no idea it had 2 basements until they were out and I found more parts of the property I have never been in! it is a little weird and I am not sure what to do with it but it is cool!

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[BMG]

On table were buckets from a bucket elevator. Grain would have dropped into a chute at the wall directed to the hole in middle of floor. That held the base of the bucket elevator. Then grain was scooped and carried vertically to the top of the elevator where it dumped into another chute directing it to the silos

[redwing]

The red piece of metal in the basement is a weight off the front of an old international harvester tractor.

[leann]

The rusty piece of metal leaning against the wall (at 12:08) is an old International Harvester (IH) tractor weight.

[UncleDavesKitchen]

Would the chute be for coal back when they had coal burning furnace? We burned coal for heat up to the 1960s

[holymoly]

As a gardener/homemaker- that is a wonderful space. The storing of can goods in that basement - or drying out large amounts of potatoes on any floor - so many possibilities.😊
If there is a plot of land around, boy oh boy, this could elimate a food desert.

[jaynecobb]

10:38 Awesome! Those a gauges from a Warren Webster Steam heating system. Don't throw those out. You scored a few bits of history! 11:32 That is the coal chute with an antique coal shovel next to it.

[miss_vicxo]

I really enjoy your content and humor 😂 Thanks for taking us on your adventure!

[darleneaitken]

It's not like they trashed the place. And it looks like it was old seven years ago. Be thankful you got all that rent money.

[kimcat]

You are a brave man Mark. There is no way I would have gone into that first basement.

[rentechpad]

That shoot
reminds me of the coal shoots used to accept large deliveries of coal that would be used
heat a building. They were very common before the 1940's.. The implacement near the end of the shoot looks very much like part of a commercial coal furnace pre WW2. Coal furnances started being
phased out post WW2 as oil furnaces replaced coal, as oil was cleaner and you did not have to deal with coal dust and shoveling coal into the furnance and less risk of fires. Oil was stored in under. ground tanks and pumped to meet the needs of the furnace.

Most residential
properties built before WW2 converted to oil or electric heat ASAP as it came to be available to an
area. Most large commercial
building went with
oil as it was more reliable and cheaper for large spaces.

The coal shoot almost completely disappeared in to history as residential buildings repurposed for oil or electric removed them as unneeded. The same happened in commercial buildings, except if kept for deliveries a of heavy materials into a basement area to avoid using stairs or adding an elevator.

[barbaraannroach]

Grain chute/reminds me of a an old coal chute. Had one that Dad changed to an outside stairs to the basement to our old home built in 1855, according to the old paperwork that my son oldest son “lost”.

[charleswieand]

Antique international Harvester tractor weight might be worth something. The other thing is a bar clamp for gluing up pieces of wood.

[SuperDavek]

Is that a dead smoke detector beeping?😂That would make a great museum for your business adventures.

[silbug]

Really cool building. I can see it being a really cool artist studio.

[benpersinger]

Careful you didn’t unlock the portal to the underworld…. 😅

Cool old building. I’m a contractor and get to go through some crazy old places from time to time. Jumped into one crawlspace a while back and there was a full on made up bed and chair down there and the hatch to the thing had a locking system on it that could be locked and unlocked from another room. I heard later they had kept someone in there.. definitely silence of the lamb level stuff

[TheWibob]

17:19 that was no fire but most likely coal residue from a old coal room for the furnace. My house still has very black stained basement walls from the coal that used to be stored there. On a side note my house was built in 1910 and has very similar support beams in the basement.

[scottb]

Way back in '72 I entered an old abandoned house in the middle of a ten acre overgrown plot. Kids had been exploring it for years before I discovered it's secret hidden basement (door behind refrigerator). This being EXTREMELY unusual as the house was in Miami Shores, FL. It was too dark to explore and I went home for a flashlight before my dad stopped me. The next three days the place had police and fire dept all over it.. then it was knocked down and filled. The lot was built up about 5 years later... never did find out what was in that basement...

[ralphadams]

This place would be good for a store or a pawnshop

[justinc.]

That tire wasn't there until you opened the basement, The tires know! 🤭

[penniesfromheavon]

This basement explore is the best video you’ve uploaded in a long time! Loved it! ULTIMATE MURDER ROOM 😂😂💯