From the outside, even I want to call this place, home sweet home!

It has got such nice lines, windows, and doors throughout the place. For only 7 years, it went from chirpy to derp-y, without even stopping. I agree with you on that flue to the fireplace. Just what did the old dude stick up there? Probably all of his worldly possessions or that was his rendition of a homemade draftdoggie. :) Maybe your scholarly vagabond did sleep in the clean rooms, probably even cleaned them, and stows his stuff up the chimney? To keep it safe?

The place was really a wreck! What causes all the little pieces of plaster and drywall to crumble away like that besides water? or no roof? I have to admit, I hadn't even given asbestos a thought and I am surprised you don't wear a respirator on some of these places you wander into. Wander is being used instead of scaling tall heights after leaping in a single bound. Or crawling over a spiked fence that is likely to make you a soprano. Yikes.

You guys live the life.

Also, you go into some pretty cool places. No paperwork or anything in this place? Now that is surprising.