Won't you be my neighbor?

Remember how we have a vacated property on either side of us?  And that I've been wondering what banks owned them?
I found out yesterday, and it was actually pretty simple.  I walked over to each of the two properties and read the notices on the doors of each.  A local bank owns the big house on the west; Bank of America has the one on the southeast.  
So you'd think one could simply call the banks and ask how much they want for the properties.
Oh no.  They have to get a realtor involved, and who knows when they'll get that done.  When that happens, though, maybe you'd like to move next door.  Here's the one on the west:   

The house

The garage

This is where the original house was, the one that burned.

The view from the old house location

The local bank has been doing some cleanup to the house.  It needs a lot more than cleanup, however; it needs extensive repair.  "Somebody" tore up both air conditioners to get to the copper inside them.  Most of the interior doors have been taken out and sold.  Lighting fixtures have been removed.  It's only a five-year-old house, but it's been vandalized.  Add to that the fact that the guy did a lot of the work himself, with questionable hired help, and you realize nobody is going to want to pay much.  It does sit on seventeen acres, which may be the main selling point when it goes on the market.  The acreage is rough, though, and only growing weeds.
We have no desire to own that place.  Now let's move on to the other one:

I guess it qualifies as an earth home.

back yard, with pool

   

On the southeast is a house that is basically an above-ground basement.  The floors are concrete.  There's no working furnace, and the whole inside is pretty trashed.  The roof needs to be replaced, since half the shingles have blown off.  The back yard is mostly taken up by an abandoned swimming pool that hasn't been touched in at least five years and hasn't held water for two; and around that, little trees have planted themselves and grown into a young forest.  Water for the house is provided by a well.  Bank of America owns this one, so I don't think anybody will be doing any cleanup. 

The one good thing on the property is the pole barn.  This is the sole reason we wouldn't mind having it, if it sells cheap enough.  We'd probably just level the house, because by the time we bought the property we wouldn't have enough funds to fix everything that's wrong with it.


Or maybe you'd like to be my neighbor, fix up the house, and rent the barn to us?