Treasures in the neighborhood...Foreclosed Homes

[bob.oz]

Had a few houses in the neighborhood that have been vacant for the past 3 years....finally,in the past weeks the banks have started cleaning them up on the outside....total yard work....and it just happens.. the weather has been pleasant enough to get out of the water and on to land either early morning or b4 sundown.
At one house I found the small 925 charm TID 36, two 925 (2 oz total) 18" chains TID 16,18 and some wheat's one being a 43 steel(upright on magnet) I dug it even though it was a -4,-6...low grunt sound,but repeatable..it was in a small area of other wheat's at the same depth....the chains were in the back yard,but in separate areas...one is broken...the other i cleaned up and is ready to wear.
At the other house I found a pocket spill...53 Washington,47D,50..Rosie all in the same hole,jumpy signal...TID..38.40.42...... also in the same yard some more wheat's..oldest 27....and a no date Buffalo..TID...12
Using the 705 with the 5x10 elliptical 18.75 GL HH

 

[EOS]

Superfinds!
A coinspill is always fun to recover.
Congratulations!!!

Mike

 

[Beale]

Congrats on the very nice finds! Great hunts! Beale.

 

[Mtnmn]

You made some really nice finds, can't remember of having ever found an old pocket spill, way to go!

 

[randall burd]

Did you have premission from the bank to detect their.

 

[Crocket]

Nice finds....

 

[mudpuppy]

Now thats some great heads-up hunting there, Bob! and from a water hunter no less, good to see you can cross over and kill it in the dirt too!
Mud

 

[bob.oz]

Thanks for the accolades...It's nice to get out in some nice weather and dig some dirt..looking foreword to more nice temps to come....the heat is still in control
Thanks Mud,but i was a ground hog B4 a water dog...Did very little MDing in the summer till i got the DF this year

Did you have premission from the bank to detect their.

NOPE!!!...Are you a banker LOL... I also didn't ask if it was OK if i cut the front lawn for 6 months after the owners walked,or trim the tree branches that banged against the roof in storms that kept me awake,or call the cops about the open door.....I and my neighbors had to look at these overgrown,vermin infested,blighted homes for 3 years...and now all they've done is put lipstick on a pig to unload them,driving down the value of homes around them....Scrooow the bank!!...This rant is only inspired by you" Randall burb"...NOT at you.

 

[mapper65]

I have a house like that in my neighborhood right now. The neighbors had to beg the township to cut the grass because the bank now owns the house due to foreclosure and they quit having the grass cut after about 2 mowings. The house is not of any value to them or any perspective buyers due to it's condition. It really needs to be torn down. We had permission from the original owners and were detecting there for about a year while they still lived there and once they moved out we continued to detect there. The bank is out of state and none of the neighbors really care that we are detecting there. We'd always heard that the house was built in the late 1800's and just recently, some finds have proved this to be true.

I think there are certain situations that detecting a property like this or the one that bob.oz is onto are ok. Especially if they are in your own neighborhood. I'm not sure that as an outsider I would try detecting a property like this in someone else's neighborhood not knowing the history of the property.

 

[bob.oz]

I guess my subject line is a bit misleading.....I don't advocate hunting foreclosed homes as new hunting grounds.As mapper65 surmised,these were houses in eye site of my house, that i have lived for thirty years.I do however believe these homes hold the silver coin that is so hard to find in common hunting grounds these days.My neighborhood was built in the 50's and i have a clear picture in my head of every type of construction worker on that home and every other home being constructed back then,sitting in that yard eating lunch and spilling some silver coins out of their pockets!! HH GL