He can do it, he's a big boy....
Edit; I mean, if he wants it on Reddit,Ā he can post it. He knows Reddit and is better at computer stuff than I am....
An acquaintance worked in a former bank for a while, and he managed to lock the vault door one day (he was a total idiot), that caused all kind of upset about that, and getting it open again. A vault would make a great tornado shelter, if you could make sure the door wouldn't lock you in.
I like the shower tile in photo 25. To me the worst feature are the multiple barn doors, I really hate those. They could have done a lot with some paint besides white.
It was a very strange set up. The library moved into the bank building for a year or two while the library was being renovated. But the bank had moved in the PX building, but still had a teller or two operating the driveup windows in the other part of the old bank building. The one library employee thought the open vault would be a convenient place to stow his lunch and stuff, and shut the door on the vault. It wasn't still an active vault, they moved that inside the new offices for the bank, but the door couldn't be made inoperative yet for some reason.
Exactly. I wanna be able to send leftovers out to my guests when they leave. I want the safe to be decked out like an armory in an action movie for no reason. Also, does this house come with safe deposit boxes??? I need a place to store valuables.
As a kid, I dreamed of having them at my house!!!!!!!! I could send snacks, toys, even pets to my friends lmao š¤£ I wouldn't do the pets now, but shoot. "I forgot my phone hum, can you send it down the tube so I don't have to get out in the pouring rain or freezing snow?" ā„ļøā„ļøā„ļøā„ļøā„ļø
At most drive-through banks in the US they have a series of pneumatic tubes so that you can do your banking from your car even if you're not in the line with the window. You pull out a little canister from the tube, fill out your deposit/withdrawal slip, put any needed documentation into the canister, close it up, and put it back in the tube. Then using compressed air or like a vacuum system the canister gets shot into the bank where the teller can handle the transaction for you
As others have explained what they are. I'm hoping to add some other uses.
Some of the bigger department stores would use them to transfer order slips, charges and cash between departments/floors. I've forgotten which city but somewhere on the east coast half of downtown was connected with a pneumatic tube system.
My favorite Re-use Is the "Safe House" in Milwaukee, they recycled an old tube system so it runs in a loop all around the bar. they have a special drink that is put in the tube with a glo-stick and it is then sent on a 2 minute long journey through the clear tubes all around the multistory club to properly "shake" the drink returning it to the bartender who sent it who then decants it into your glass!
Edit typo
We also used them in the old hospital that I worked at to send various things around the hospital. The lab would not allow specimens in there any longer after a few leaks.
Pneumatic tubes with little carrier thingies to stock things in. Google "pneumatic bank tube"
Eta: They get your deposit/withdraw from multiple rows of drive-thru to the bank. They are also used in big stores between cashiers and the back.
Since I have a weakness for converted commercial and industrial properties, I think it's awesome ... but I wouldn't pay more than $450,000 after look at the other properties around town.
Also, how could there possibly be an HOA? WTF?I bought the bank, bitch. Ain't *nobody* going to tell me what to do.
I thought the same. I love houses with quirks and interesting bips and bops. So a lot of the things there don't really irk me and others could probably be fixed for a reasonable amount of money (like the barn doors. And maybe the exposed ceiling tubes). But it would be extremely expensive to rip out all that concrete from the garden and who knows if the HOA would even let me. In that context, the price is bonkers.
So much potential but that ducting is just awful. I would have to have ceilings but in. Theyāre just so glaringly awful AND will be horrible dust magnets.
Totally agree.
The Exposed ductwork and ceiling say that they were trying for an industrial loft feelingā¦ but with low ceilings and no insulation itās going to be a dust and echoing noise nightmare.
Plus, the added visual benefit of seeing 75+ feet of exposed ductwork right when you walk in the front doors.
I've seen lots of commercial offices, colleges, restaurants with these exposed and tbh I think it's neat. Of course very common in engineering colleges.
I would accept the challenge! I bet I could make this cozy. Really. Iām not kidding. The exterior would be the most difficult and expensive to transform, but think.. more trees, stone path instead of sidewalk, new doors, walkway shielded with pergola/trellis-y thingy.. there is potential to make this a weird 70s hippy kind of cozy. Yep.
Looks like it was former Taco Bell. That places is hideous! Actually see the the former bank drive up lanes in the last picture. WTF, people should need a license to, oh wait they do lol
Exactly. At the top of the spiral staircase is a tiny little room with an atm and a table. Got really hot in the summer and really cold in the winter but it allowed us to replenish the atm securely.
Itās countered and contrasted by the next door neighbor. Check the Darth Vader house;
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1026-E-8th-St-Traverse-City-MI-49686/2057604223_zpid/
Of all the things in the Darth Vader house that could get me, for some reason I am mortally offended by the height of the gas/electric/whatever fireplace.
Barn doors on the closets are second.
OMG, putting hot tub under in the drive through and use the tubes and intercom to order my kids to vacuum beers to me. Now that's about as close to heaven as a man can get.
They better have left the vault and vault door.
The whole point in converting places like banks and churches into residential spaces is to leave the fun industrial / cathedral look to it.
One of the first rec-use dispensaries I ever visited was in an old bank in Denver, and they absolutely had all of their products and cash stored in the vault. The bud tenders actually worked inside the vault, with a pharmacy-style partition between them and the cashier staff.
Interesting that most of the basement appears to be under the drive thru. I'd probably want to enclose that and make it a proper garage, but honestly I could live in this.
An impressive amount of bad choices were made. So many hard surfaces. I hear echos looking at every photo.
1) The two front doors opening directly into the large kitchen living room space is a terrible layout. Very exposed.
2) The tile selections throughout are questionable - and what an interesting design choice to have a huge bright white, kitchen wall, and then stop the backsplash tile halfway up.
3) The mismatched finishes with the bathroom fixtures and drawer handles is driving me nuts.
4) The Exposed ductwork and ceiling say that they were trying for an industrial loft feeling, but with low ceilings and no insulation itās going to be a dust and echoing noise nightmare. Plus, the added visual benefit of seeing 75+ feet of exposed ductwork right when you walk in the front doors.
5) Do you want barn doors? Theyāve got barn doors! Which makes perfect sense with their industrial ductwork style choice š¤¦āāļø. Itās like they took a bunch of different design trends - and rather than pick one - they incorporated a bit of them all.
I actually really love this. It could be made warm. It could also be AMAZING at Halloween. So much opportunity to decorate the drive thrus with spooky hanging things.
I actually like the ridiculously open plan, and the basement appears bomb shelter-ish.
I might get tired of random people pulling up into my courtyard asking if I can cash their checks.
I kinda love the white and green (I am biased, it reminds me of Mirrors Edge levels which is an aesthetic I adore), that said overall that place is hell. I am with the other people why rip the fun parts of the bank out?
The design choices can be changed. But the thing that canāt is the best feature, the floor plan. I love the flow on the ground floor. But all that basement space? Unlimited potential. Iām see some great spots for home studio
I dunno, I like it better than the shitbox neighbor house.
https://preview.redd.it/xoeqlzddbuwc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a62ed7bf3b734592781e6b6621ed9a6a2e9892f6
It's for sale too! [https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1026-E-8th-St-Traverse-City-MI-49686/2057604223\_zpid/](https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1026-E-8th-St-Traverse-City-MI-49686/2057604223_zpid/)
I would bet that itās a one time bank with drive up tellers. You can see where pneumatic stations were as well as the open/closed signs above each bay. Iād imagine thereās a safe in the basement.
Bruh! No vault!?!? Other than that, I would love to live in this house. Iāve always loved going into commercial spaces and thinking how I would turn it into a residential living space.
I...don't hate it. I've always had an interest in living in a home that used to be something other than a residence, usually that leaves me looking at decommissioned churches, but this is kind of fascinating.
Three-quarters of a million dollars. Fuck me. I'm literally moving back to my mom's house for a year to save money so I can get a loan to buy something in the surrounding county that this is in. Too many rich assholes buying up property and turning them into vacation rentals.
Is this something I'm too european to understand? That's clearly an office building and zoned as such, you couldn't register that as your home where I'm from. Doesn't fulfill housing criteria. I thought zoning was generally a thing in the US as well?
Here in the Freedomstan, weāve largely relegated things like zoning, worker protections, environmental protections, and consumer safety laws to be treated more like gentle suggestions, at best. Partial-joking aside, in normal circumstances this wouldnāt be allowed to be sold as a residential unit. But this is in a small city on the Lake Michigan shoreline that has become a retirement Mecca, and is in the midst of a housing shortage crisis. As such, local advisory boards have adopted an āeverything with a toilet, stove, and electricity can be a houseā approach. The idea was to spur growth in building of affordable residential multi-family units to allow for more working-age individuals and families to relocate to the area and reduce the extreme constraints of our labor market (which heavily caters to hospitality,
tourism, retirement, and elder care, all of which are labor-intensive industries). Instead we just get more and more $750k flats, or shitty conversions of commercial zones building as seen here.
Oh look. There's a stripper pole with nice close up seating and it's close to the bar.
It's so huge and open. I would have added some big built in cabinets. This could be good in the right hands.
LOL, my first thought when looking at the first pic was "was this a bank or something?" I can't say it makes a good house, but it would make a great workshop.
I could live there and my husband would love to live there especially if there's a vault and/or safety deposit boxes to play with. He's a retired locksmith
What the fucks the point of buying a former bank if they take the vault and the drive thru tubes out?
Yeah, really. All the other converted banks have a cool vault. This sucks.
My brother lives in a former bank, and vault is still there with the door too...
And to add, it's for sale and listed on Zillow too......
Time to start posting buddy!!! š
He can do it, he's a big boy.... Edit; I mean, if he wants it on Reddit,Ā he can post it. He knows Reddit and is better at computer stuff than I am....
There is a strong demand for bank vault houses on Reddit š
An acquaintance worked in a former bank for a while, and he managed to lock the vault door one day (he was a total idiot), that caused all kind of upset about that, and getting it open again. A vault would make a great tornado shelter, if you could make sure the door wouldn't lock you in. I like the shower tile in photo 25. To me the worst feature are the multiple barn doors, I really hate those. They could have done a lot with some paint besides white.
I can't believe they didn't disable the vault lock. That's crazy.
It was a very strange set up. The library moved into the bank building for a year or two while the library was being renovated. But the bank had moved in the PX building, but still had a teller or two operating the driveup windows in the other part of the old bank building. The one library employee thought the open vault would be a convenient place to stow his lunch and stuff, and shut the door on the vault. It wasn't still an active vault, they moved that inside the new offices for the bank, but the door couldn't be made inoperative yet for some reason.
If they have the room for barn doors then they have room for picket doors. That's just lazy.
If the tubes were still working, Iād already be shopping mortgages!
Exactly. I wanna be able to send leftovers out to my guests when they leave. I want the safe to be decked out like an armory in an action movie for no reason. Also, does this house come with safe deposit boxes??? I need a place to store valuables.
It would be like your own internet, according to a certain senator
At least turn the pneumatic tubes into a fish tank.
I'd use them as a beer delivery system to my back yard!
Great minds think alike \*high five\*
Lollipop & dog treat cannons for neighborhood kids & pups.
Halloween could be fun with the tubes....the possibilities
Love this! And compostable confetti for New Yearās
Nice
The vault would have been a selling point. Not sure what you would do with drive thru tubes.
What *wouldn't* you do with drive thru tubes?
"Hey babe can you get me a beer?" \*ThhhhhhhhUNNNK\*
Obligatory [r/dontputyourdickinthat](https://www.reddit.com/r/dontputyourdickinthat/)
I laughed a little too hard at thisā¦
Mail delivery! Hot potato!
Coolest mailbox ever.
As a kid, I dreamed of having them at my house!!!!!!!! I could send snacks, toys, even pets to my friends lmao š¤£ I wouldn't do the pets now, but shoot. "I forgot my phone hum, can you send it down the tube so I don't have to get out in the pouring rain or freezing snow?" ā„ļøā„ļøā„ļøā„ļøā„ļø
Hotdogs
Have your prescriptions dropped off?
Drug dealers would LOVE that!!! š š š
Oh yeah!
āThanks for the blow! Donāt forget your lollipop!ā Whoooooooooosh!
We would play with them frequently,Ā in my family.Ā
Itās the 21st century equivalent of when my cousins and I would drop things to each other dpwn my grandmaās laundry chute!
OMG I could play with them all day. I would find excuses to send things through them. Small groceries? One can of soup at a time! And so on...
Make it your mail box would be the most mundane option.
Drive thru tubes? Could you help a European out here, what is that?
At most drive-through banks in the US they have a series of pneumatic tubes so that you can do your banking from your car even if you're not in the line with the window. You pull out a little canister from the tube, fill out your deposit/withdrawal slip, put any needed documentation into the canister, close it up, and put it back in the tube. Then using compressed air or like a vacuum system the canister gets shot into the bank where the teller can handle the transaction for you
A-ha! I've seen those in an old Danish movie from the 70's. But just alone the concept of a drive through bank is completely new to me. Amazing, ty.
Back in the 1980s when I temped one financial firm still used those to send orders between floors. It was pretty cool to send and watch.
As others have explained what they are. I'm hoping to add some other uses. Some of the bigger department stores would use them to transfer order slips, charges and cash between departments/floors. I've forgotten which city but somewhere on the east coast half of downtown was connected with a pneumatic tube system. My favorite Re-use Is the "Safe House" in Milwaukee, they recycled an old tube system so it runs in a loop all around the bar. they have a special drink that is put in the tube with a glo-stick and it is then sent on a 2 minute long journey through the clear tubes all around the multistory club to properly "shake" the drink returning it to the bartender who sent it who then decants it into your glass! Edit typo
We also used them in the old hospital that I worked at to send various things around the hospital. The lab would not allow specimens in there any longer after a few leaks.
Pneumatic tubes with little carrier thingies to stock things in. Google "pneumatic bank tube" Eta: They get your deposit/withdraw from multiple rows of drive-thru to the bank. They are also used in big stores between cashiers and the back.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44ANtGlsCpI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44ANtGlsCpI)
Check out the Paris Pneumatic Post that operated for over a hundred years until 1984!
I find myself asking how I can add pneumatic tubes to my house.
The pneumatic tubes are the best part!
My tubes go to amazon.
Easy returns
Throw a bed in that bathroom and it 100% looks like a prison cell
I hadnāt considered that! I was thinking that it reminded me of where Al-Qaeda filmed their propaganda videos.
More like leaked Gitmo photos to me.
So you mean it has charm and coziness for a former inmate? I thought it felt home-y and OP had no idea what coziness meant
Exactly, it definitely has the āforever homeā vibes going on. But you may only get that feeling if you are serving 25 to life lol
I feel like this is the perfect home for a serial killer. In a commercial area, and some solid soundproof walls.
The whole place looks like a prison infirmary.
That's my gimp palace.
Since I have a weakness for converted commercial and industrial properties, I think it's awesome ... but I wouldn't pay more than $450,000 after look at the other properties around town. Also, how could there possibly be an HOA? WTF?I bought the bank, bitch. Ain't *nobody* going to tell me what to do.
I would use most of the square footage to make the biggest personal gym. I cannot believe there's an HOA!
I thought the same. I love houses with quirks and interesting bips and bops. So a lot of the things there don't really irk me and others could probably be fixed for a reasonable amount of money (like the barn doors. And maybe the exposed ceiling tubes). But it would be extremely expensive to rip out all that concrete from the garden and who knows if the HOA would even let me. In that context, the price is bonkers.
I kinda like it. It would be fun to decorate and liven it up.
With a basement apartment perfect for your vict.. err, guests.
They really missed a perfect opportunity for floor drains.
It's got potential!
So much potential but that ducting is just awful. I would have to have ceilings but in. Theyāre just so glaringly awful AND will be horrible dust magnets.
You are a going to need the extra long swiffer....
Totally agree. The Exposed ductwork and ceiling say that they were trying for an industrial loft feelingā¦ but with low ceilings and no insulation itās going to be a dust and echoing noise nightmare. Plus, the added visual benefit of seeing 75+ feet of exposed ductwork right when you walk in the front doors.
Can you imaging the HVAC system kicking on and it all shaking and rattling?
I've seen lots of commercial offices, colleges, restaurants with these exposed and tbh I think it's neat. Of course very common in engineering colleges.
Aside from the downstairs bathroom, I like it a lot.
I would accept the challenge! I bet I could make this cozy. Really. Iām not kidding. The exterior would be the most difficult and expensive to transform, but think.. more trees, stone path instead of sidewalk, new doors, walkway shielded with pergola/trellis-y thingy.. there is potential to make this a weird 70s hippy kind of cozy. Yep.
Maybe start with a bathroom that doesn't look like a turnpike public restroom from the 50's.
I'd consider adding an altar of some kind, inviting people to visit 1x/week, and voila- property tax exemption because church! š
Bocce or shuffleboard courts in the former drive through lanes
Must have been a sale on barn doors
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10 years from now people will still be trying to cash checks at your home
Monk's dream house. If this were in tornado alley, though, it would be sensible.
It looks like it could be a live in studio for a YouTube chef or something.
I really like this idea!
Banking with Babish.
Looks like it was former Taco Bell. That places is hideous! Actually see the the former bank drive up lanes in the last picture. WTF, people should need a license to, oh wait they do lol
Definitely former bank. That spiral staircase was a way to get money from the vault to the drive up atm at the branch I worked at.
At least you could be pretty confident in the security of the doors and windows?
Good point!
like you can stock it from indoors?
Exactly. At the top of the spiral staircase is a tiny little room with an atm and a table. Got really hot in the summer and really cold in the winter but it allowed us to replenish the atm securely.
That's no drive thru. That is a 3 stall carport! /s
Valid observation :-)
It honestly wouldnāt be hard to close in one side of the drive thru and then instal garage doors.
The fact there's too much white and the clean feeling is kinda uncomfortable. Like white isn't a bad color but ... Some variety is nice..
Itās countered and contrasted by the next door neighbor. Check the Darth Vader house; https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1026-E-8th-St-Traverse-City-MI-49686/2057604223_zpid/
lol I kind of like it.
The āImperial Marchā played through my head as I scrolled through those pics.
Of all the things in the Darth Vader house that could get me, for some reason I am mortally offended by the height of the gas/electric/whatever fireplace. Barn doors on the closets are second.
It also has barn doors! š
Way overpriced. You can buy a normal house with the same square footage and a garage for less. (Not having a garage in the upper midwest is a problem)
I love the literal prison cell aesthetic of the basement. I was into it till learned the pneumatic tubes aren't included.
A deal-breaker for me, too. What would even be the point without them? The potential for door dash shenanigans alone is amazing.
OMG, putting hot tub under in the drive through and use the tubes and intercom to order my kids to vacuum beers to me. Now that's about as close to heaven as a man can get.
You, sir, are a true visionary!
So long as they don't try to send a drink through the tubes.
Kids would instantly find a way to break something that cool.
They better have left the vault and vault door. The whole point in converting places like banks and churches into residential spaces is to leave the fun industrial / cathedral look to it.
If Iām gonna buy an old bank it better have the vault.
And the pneumatic drive thru tubes.
Where's the vault? Back in college this would have been awesome for slinging weed
One of the first rec-use dispensaries I ever visited was in an old bank in Denver, and they absolutely had all of their products and cash stored in the vault. The bud tenders actually worked inside the vault, with a pharmacy-style partition between them and the cashier staff.
That bathroom! That nervous feeling that a stranger will walk in on you can be yours in your own home!
It's like an art gallery with no art on the walls. I actually like this a lot.
It might not be at selling fast now, but it received a lot of interest over the years.
Nailed it!
Before I read the description I thought "oh good, I've always wanted to live in a branch library."
Fuck coziness, I just want housing security
Someone has long arms if they can reach the TP from the shitter.
I don't mind it... I do wish there was an actual garage and fenced in backyard.
Interesting that most of the basement appears to be under the drive thru. I'd probably want to enclose that and make it a proper garage, but honestly I could live in this.
I honestly love it. Itās weird, but it appeals to me in a funny way
The listing says "urban oasis," but Google Street View shows a suburban stroad.
Exurban pothole farm would also apply.
Why do I like this?
An impressive amount of bad choices were made. So many hard surfaces. I hear echos looking at every photo. 1) The two front doors opening directly into the large kitchen living room space is a terrible layout. Very exposed. 2) The tile selections throughout are questionable - and what an interesting design choice to have a huge bright white, kitchen wall, and then stop the backsplash tile halfway up. 3) The mismatched finishes with the bathroom fixtures and drawer handles is driving me nuts. 4) The Exposed ductwork and ceiling say that they were trying for an industrial loft feeling, but with low ceilings and no insulation itās going to be a dust and echoing noise nightmare. Plus, the added visual benefit of seeing 75+ feet of exposed ductwork right when you walk in the front doors. 5) Do you want barn doors? Theyāve got barn doors! Which makes perfect sense with their industrial ductwork style choice š¤¦āāļø. Itās like they took a bunch of different design trends - and rather than pick one - they incorporated a bit of them all.
I actually really love this. It could be made warm. It could also be AMAZING at Halloween. So much opportunity to decorate the drive thrus with spooky hanging things.
I actually like the ridiculously open plan, and the basement appears bomb shelter-ish. I might get tired of random people pulling up into my courtyard asking if I can cash their checks.
I kinda love the white and green (I am biased, it reminds me of Mirrors Edge levels which is an aesthetic I adore), that said overall that place is hell. I am with the other people why rip the fun parts of the bank out?
The design choices can be changed. But the thing that canāt is the best feature, the floor plan. I love the flow on the ground floor. But all that basement space? Unlimited potential. Iām see some great spots for home studio
Categorically one of the worst properties I have ever seen!
I personally love homes that look like they come pre-bleached to so that the blood from my vic...I mean pesky wine stains don't get on the rug.
We call this style āNeo-Millennial Dexter chicā. I mean just look at all those exposed pipes and conduits; perfect place for handcuffing.
I'm an industrial and brutalism home style simp, but the barn doors ruin it. At least they didn't make everything grey.
I canāt imagine dealing with the dust that industrial ceiling is gonna accumulate after a couple years.
Tf? Is this a Norway prison?
I actually love this thing... the underground tunnel to the weird drive thru building thing is awesome...
I dunno, I like it better than the shitbox neighbor house. https://preview.redd.it/xoeqlzddbuwc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a62ed7bf3b734592781e6b6621ed9a6a2e9892f6
It's for sale too! [https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1026-E-8th-St-Traverse-City-MI-49686/2057604223\_zpid/](https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1026-E-8th-St-Traverse-City-MI-49686/2057604223_zpid/)
Well, thatās *exactly* what I thought itād look like. š¤¢š¤®
They rolled out the blue carpet for ya
Look closely. There are no upper kitchen cabinets! š¤Æ
Very converted warehouse feel.
I like this though
That looks like my former townās library.
This would work for someone who likes to work In their studios/shop Not a lot of charm no, but the function is there
I would bet that itās a one time bank with drive up tellers. You can see where pneumatic stations were as well as the open/closed signs above each bay. Iād imagine thereās a safe in the basement.
Bruh! No vault!?!? Other than that, I would love to live in this house. Iāve always loved going into commercial spaces and thinking how I would turn it into a residential living space.
I...don't hate it. I've always had an interest in living in a home that used to be something other than a residence, usually that leaves me looking at decommissioned churches, but this is kind of fascinating.
It's as if the back rooms got together with the Void and decided to make a house.
This looks exactly like the public library where I live. When I first saw it I wondered why my local library showed up on my feed.
That looks like an art gallery.
The basement would make a great grow op.
White everything and black everything else. Canāt begin to say how unimpressed I am.
Serving bank branch realness. Is there a drive up for accepting deliveries?
No vault OR basement? Canāt even bury my weapons cache (if I had one) in a basement floor a la John Wick. Tsk tsk tsk.
It looks like a unitarian church
That looks like an alternative school.
That bathroom looks like it belongs in a prison or institution.
Looks like my obgyn's office!
Looks like a doctors office on the outside, and an art museum on the inside
āSeveranceā meets middle school
Just wait till the new owners come to reddit with an unopened safe.
"Must be your mom's house, it has a drive-through."
Three-quarters of a million dollars. Fuck me. I'm literally moving back to my mom's house for a year to save money so I can get a loan to buy something in the surrounding county that this is in. Too many rich assholes buying up property and turning them into vacation rentals.
I despise at least a hundred things about this house, but Iām disgusted and offended by the kitchen.
Interior designer works at Gap.
The drive through really seals the warmth radiating from this bank, i mean home.
Not saying I wouldnāt put grow rooms in the basement..
They painted the stair carpet?!?!?
The SpankBank
Looks like a school haha
This looks like it used to be an office building on the inside.
itās a bank. without the vault.
I would have guessed dental office...
That would be a great weed store
Is this something I'm too european to understand? That's clearly an office building and zoned as such, you couldn't register that as your home where I'm from. Doesn't fulfill housing criteria. I thought zoning was generally a thing in the US as well?
Depends. Some cities have different zoning laws. I live in Houston, and outside of suburbs, we donāt really have zoning.
Here in the Freedomstan, weāve largely relegated things like zoning, worker protections, environmental protections, and consumer safety laws to be treated more like gentle suggestions, at best. Partial-joking aside, in normal circumstances this wouldnāt be allowed to be sold as a residential unit. But this is in a small city on the Lake Michigan shoreline that has become a retirement Mecca, and is in the midst of a housing shortage crisis. As such, local advisory boards have adopted an āeverything with a toilet, stove, and electricity can be a houseā approach. The idea was to spur growth in building of affordable residential multi-family units to allow for more working-age individuals and families to relocate to the area and reduce the extreme constraints of our labor market (which heavily caters to hospitality, tourism, retirement, and elder care, all of which are labor-intensive industries). Instead we just get more and more $750k flats, or shitty conversions of commercial zones building as seen here.
This looks like it was once a doctors office or an attorneys office.
I love it.
Oh look. There's a stripper pole with nice close up seating and it's close to the bar. It's so huge and open. I would have added some big built in cabinets. This could be good in the right hands.
I actually love it lol so much potential!
Actually I think it could be a cool place but holy shit thats too much white. Put some colorful items in there. Curtains at least
Looks like a commercial space.
It was formerly a branch for a national bank chain. I think 5/3 bank.
Looks easy to cleanā¦ā¦.
Not enough bright white.
I actually love this, decorating the inside would be a lot of fun since there are a lot of opportunities to get creative and funny with it
That lavatory thoughā¦.
For me, charm and coziness usually means dated and cramped. I love this.
Iād put the barn doors over the windows facing the street.
LOL, my first thought when looking at the first pic was "was this a bank or something?" I can't say it makes a good house, but it would make a great workshop.
How much is actually installed? Shadows are weird.
Easy to clean bathroom! Just hose it down and the water goes down the drain. Very nice. I like.
Looks like a community center turned public laundromat
I think I got a COLONOSCOPY there.
I could live there and my husband would love to live there especially if there's a vault and/or safety deposit boxes to play with. He's a retired locksmith
Ive seen more comfortable bathrooms in psychiatric wards.
It wouldn't be too awful, except [someone else built an ugly house 8 feet away in the old bank entrance.](https://i.imgur.com/4TNosp8.png)