Such a SHAMEFUL PITY, those trees were there first, they SHOULD have worked around them!!

Disgusting how they knock down and waste a beautiful home like that not to mention destroy all those trees around it for acres.  Wow… sick and heartless

Do they donate all the chairs and tables and shelves and desks, etc. to Habitat for Humanity or anything? It would be such a waste if they didn’t. So many people are in need of basic furniture after fires and floods, etc. They even sell used countertops and sinks and vanity cabinets at the Habitat for Humanity store. We are so wasteful!

Well, the clear cutting alone makes me hate it.

I hate seeing the land destroyed/r***d. Where the hell are the wild animals supposed to live?   I just hate this.  😡

it is so sad to see such a wonderful home that is going to be ripped down and 700+ crap box homes built in its place - and this is called progress. such a shame...

I can’t believe that that massive house had only three bedrooms, crazy.

That definitely looks like someone had a nice little squatting run.

I love your videos but I can almost cry sometimes because of the amount of items left behind that could be life changing for someone else.  PLEASE Ethan use your videos to make absolute certain that all and any thing left in places like this one are all donated to the nearest Habitat For Humanity; I am pretty positive all the Habitat For humanity(s) will happily get a crew to gather and retrieve every single item from these properties because it would be easiest to sell in any store they have, there are so many things that are sinful or shameful to end up destroyed as landfill mess.  Thanks for your content!

The barn should be saved. For a heritage site..

What an absolute waste. Developers absolutely desecrated that property. We'll be sorry one day.

It's hard to believe that they wouldn't salvage those beautiful doors.  What a waste.  Thanks for showing it to us.

I wonder what it looked like before they cut all the tree/bush & shrubbery life away...😢

I agree with you, carpet in the bathroom is GROSS!

What's up with Ontario tearing everything down?  Guess they're going to build mega complexes for all the newcomers.

Another one of these “top end of town design”houses that are such a mismatch of space and poor layout.Bathrooms terrible, carpet in bathrooms very unhygienic, shower in the middle of the room ridiculous,kitchen was big but poor layout too.This is one of those houses they should go through and salvage the good stuff and flatten the rest. Too many greedy developers there as well. Could have left the trees and designed around them and made something nice for the future.
Nice job on the documenting Owen,great job as you always do!

40 million? There'd better have been a WHOLE helluva lot more house that what's in the video. And about a thousand acres of land.

I don't understand why people just abandon things. That is a nice place. My guess is it was built in the early 80's and enjoyed a great deal of equity over the decades as the family lived in it. If it's worth 40 million (it would only be worth that in California), the owner would get millions by selling it. Even if he were super rich and lost it all, he could sell the house, downsize considerably, and spend the rest of his life fairly comfortably. Because everything was left behind, I think he just walked away - and recently. The mindset of people baffles me. Especially those with smarts, education, and money. If the owner died suddenly, I would hope he had a will so the kids could clean it up and sell it.

I’m willing to bet by building around the old barn they maintained property tax at the old agricultural rate instead of having it converted to a residential rate, which for a property of that size was probably a massive difference.

Bio hazard container and mattress on the floor indicates someone was staying there. Likely for drugs, homeless, etc.