Are they recently abandoned or from the banking meltdown ten years ago?
I was told the banks just left them sitting empty rather than doing foreclosures because it affected their rating to have too many at once so they have slowly been working them off.
We had several like that here that just sat for years, people always asking about them, but in the past two years they finally went on the market and snap they were sold.
Rural. Mostly the old people dying off. Kids dont want the places. I know one guy is in jail. Some are drug bust properties meth labs etc. Very few are foreclosures.
More than a third of our counties have fewer people than they did 110 years ago.