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The Manor

Check out the video for the detailed walkthrough!!

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Exterior view of an abandoned apartment building that was about to be demolished!!

A little backstory about...let's call him Greg. Greg was the tenant of the hoarder apartment that you see in the thumbnail of this video, I don't have all the answers but here are a few little tidbits of information about him. In High school and his early college years, Greg was very interested in sports, baseball and hockey in particular! He even played hockey at one point in time, his jersey can be seen hanging inside one of the closets in the apartment. At the same time, like many other teenagers he really enjoyed video games and seemed to have a fondness for fantasy movies and television. In Greg's college years he also enjoyed to party, in a photo I found he can be seen funneling a beer in his home near campus and I believe this is where everything began to take a turn for the worse! A few years ago he was arrested for selling Marijuana and MDMA, he was later convicted on the charges and received probation for the offences. Greg left the University where he was studying at some point after his conviction and I don't know if he was able to finish his schooling or not.
The timeline gets a bit fuzzy at this point and the details are scarce and occasionally misleading. At some point he moved into this apartment, which was registered under his grandparents names. It appears as though some of the furniture once belonged to his grandparents who have recently passed away. I also found some sort of a card about a housewarming party for what I would assume was for him and his girlfriend at the time. Unfortunately I did not mark this information down and only have a vague recollection of the document after quickly glancing at it. But it appears as though his life began to fall apart after he moved into this apartment. He began to amass quite the collection of empties, fast food garbage and cannabis packaging. There were huge piles of kleenexes and napkins on the floor, McDonald's cups piled on the bed and a black grime that ran down the front of the kitchen counter! Due to the filth that built up inside the apartment, fruit flies began to multiply and that in turn attracted the spiders! There were cobwebs covering every inch of the apartment, the smell was putrid and the kitchen had become all but inaccessible! The bed with exposed mattress was mostly covered in fast food garbage bags and I can only imagine how he could even use it for its intended purpose. All the things of his former life were becoming buried under a mound of garbage and only the belongings that were currently in use were accessible. There was a couch with an LCD screen on the coffee table in front and a game console that would have been attached, was no longer there. I would imagine that this is where he spent most of his time during this dark point in his life until he was forced to vacate the apartment! This all took place during the pandemic and I wonder if that had something to do with it, maybe he was living in fear of the virus and didn't leave his home or maybe it was just a symptom of something more serious such as Diogenes syndrome. There is light at the end of the tunnel for Greg, he now works at one of the many cannabis stores located throughout the province, a very fitting job if you ask me!

I stand corrected, this was not a social housing building at all it was actually just a regular low-rise apartment building built in the mid 1900s. This property included another building of the same age and style, along with another mid-rise as well as 4 detached homes that had been turned into apartments. The existing buildings are going to be replaced with two new condo towers, one being 33 storeys and the other 21 storeys, this new development has yet to be named.

©James Hackland

Description
The Manor

Check out the video for the detailed walkthrough!!

youtu.be/jI6aNFxOd0Q

Exterior view of an abandoned apartment building that was about to be demolished!!

A little backstory about...let's call him Greg. Greg was the tenant of the hoarder apartment that you see in the thumbnail of this video, I don't have all the answers but here are a few little tidbits of information about him. In High school and his early college years, Greg was very interested in sports, baseball and hockey in particular! He even played hockey at one point in time, his jersey can be seen hanging inside one of the closets in the apartment. At the same time, like many other teenagers he really enjoyed video games and seemed to have a fondness for fantasy movies and television. In Greg's college years he also enjoyed to party, in a photo I found he can be seen funneling a beer in his home near campus and I believe this is where everything began to take a turn for the worse! A few years ago he was arrested for selling Marijuana and MDMA, he was later convicted on the charges and received probation for the offences. Greg left the University where he was studying at some point after his conviction and I don't know if he was able to finish his schooling or not.
The timeline gets a bit fuzzy at this point and the details are scarce and occasionally misleading. At some point he moved into this apartment, which was registered under his grandparents names. It appears as though some of the furniture once belonged to his grandparents who have recently passed away. I also found some sort of a card about a housewarming party for what I would assume was for him and his girlfriend at the time. Unfortunately I did not mark this information down and only have a vague recollection of the document after quickly glancing at it. But it appears as though his life began to fall apart after he moved into this apartment. He began to amass quite the collection of empties, fast food garbage and cannabis packaging. There were huge piles of kleenexes and napkins on the floor, McDonald's cups piled on the bed and a black grime that ran down the front of the kitchen counter! Due to the filth that built up inside the apartment, fruit flies began to multiply and that in turn attracted the spiders! There were cobwebs covering every inch of the apartment, the smell was putrid and the kitchen had become all but inaccessible! The bed with exposed mattress was mostly covered in fast food garbage bags and I can only imagine how he could even use it for its intended purpose. All the things of his former life were becoming buried under a mound of garbage and only the belongings that were currently in use were accessible. There was a couch with an LCD screen on the coffee table in front and a game console that would have been attached, was no longer there. I would imagine that this is where he spent most of his time during this dark point in his life until he was forced to vacate the apartment! This all took place during the pandemic and I wonder if that had something to do with it, maybe he was living in fear of the virus and didn't leave his home or maybe it was just a symptom of something more serious such as Diogenes syndrome. There is light at the end of the tunnel for Greg, he now works at one of the many cannabis stores located throughout the province, a very fitting job if you ask me!

I stand corrected, this was not a social housing building at all it was actually just a regular low-rise apartment building built in the mid 1900s. This property included another building of the same age and style, along with another mid-rise as well as 4 detached homes that had been turned into apartments. The existing buildings are going to be replaced with two new condo towers, one being 33 storeys and the other 21 storeys, this new development has yet to be named.

©James Hackland