Moving an whole apartment complex to another place. This is the heaviest building to ever be moved in Madison, USA. The owner sold the lot and used some of that money to move his building a couple blocks away. To make room for a bigger apartment complex.

[u/Piraxerie]

[u/geeeeeeby]

pay your bills people, they will tow your apartment if you don’t

[u/SurveySean → u/geeeeeeby]

They were in a tow away zone. They got up and the entire area was gone.

[u/Ktn44 → u/SurveySean]

I thought it was Sunday. I was wrong.

[u/NothinWrongWithDat]

I've never hit the mute button faster.

[u/FalseVaccum → u/NothinWrongWithDat]

I never understood why people think putting shitty over produced music over their video somehow makes it ten times better. These days as soon as I open a post like this as soon as I hear any music I close it off.

[u/Lycanthropys → u/FalseVaccum]

Pro move: just have the sound muted by default!

[u/PercentageOk5021 → u/Lycanthropys]

I’ll never understand scrolling with the sound on. I can’t handle the unpredictability of that.

[u/JohnforAmerica → u/FalseVaccum]

Included awful music, did NOT include the building actually arriving at it's location...

[u/FalseVaccum → u/JohnforAmerica]

I’m so gladded I tapped out after the first note

[u/magirevols → u/NothinWrongWithDat]

yeah, this one hurt

[u/Xaxafrad]

So...not the heaviest building moved, ever? (Still a cool video, though)

How many buildings do they move in Madison?

[u/Responsible-Jury2579 → u/Xaxafrad]

Madison is the building moving capital of the world my guy

[u/Xaxafrad → u/Responsible-Jury2579]

I'm not disinclined to believe you.

[u/Responsible-Jury2579 → u/Xaxafrad]

That’s probably actually Chicago, since they lifted a good portion of the city…

[u/GarysCrispLettuce]

I used to live on the Cape and every now and then we'd get stuck behind someone moving an entire frigging house on a truck. I can't believe people wake up in the morning and do crazy shit like this, I get nervous playing Jenga.

[u/Endoterrik → u/GarysCrispLettuce]

Those were usually parts of modular homes or double wides that were “permanent”. There hasn’t been an actual proper house being moved like in the video on Cape in a very long time. Locally, the Winslow Crocker house is the most prominent I know of. 

[u/Something_Else_2112]

In 1970, the local govt imminent domained our 150 year old farm to build a community college, So my dad put steel beams under the old family ranch home he had built, jacked the whole thing up onto dually truck tires, and pulled everything a mile through some fields with a bulldozer and set it on a new foundation, all by himself. Didn't even get any cracks in the walls from the move.

[u/_chicken_butt → u/Something_Else_2112]

What a boss. Imminent domain is such a shitty thing.

[u/Something_Else_2112 → u/_chicken_butt]

It is often used for the common good but it still sucks to get steamrolled by it.

Had a friend from work that inherited a 5 acre plot with a pond on it (beautiful vacation/camping land in the middle of nowhere) from his dad. Just a few years after inheriting it, the state took it because it was in the way of extending the new highway.

Those who downvoted you have probably never been directly affected by imminent domain.

[u/Twin_Turbo → u/Something_Else_2112]

Yeah but usually you can get paid for way more than it’s worth if you fight and kick back.

[u/LogicalEmotion7 → u/Something_Else_2112]

Usually eminent domain isn't quite as imminent. Government procedures take forever.

[u/Something_Else_2112 → u/LogicalEmotion7]

The speed is irrelevant. The land owners eventually lose in the end.

[u/LogicalEmotion7 → u/Something_Else_2112]

Well if it's slow then it isn't imminent domain

[u/Upset-Woodpecker-662]

European here. We tend to do the easier way: we sell the house and buy another one in our preferred location.

Also, our roads are not wide enough to transport a house/block of flat!

[u/filtersweep → u/Upset-Woodpecker-662]

European here. They are moving a bunch of houses a few meters to widen a road. Of course, they don’t need to use the roads to move them.

[u/freddotu]

I wanted to see a huge bundle of balloons atop the building, even just a static mount would have been great.

[u/HolyNinjaCow]

Downvoted because of music.

[u/Zealousideal_Gap_553 → u/HolyNinjaCow]

Upvoted u because it’s true

[u/waferselamat]

how much to move your building that way? 100k?

[u/qumrun60 → u/waferselamat]

On the news here (Madison) they said the cost of the move was $500,000.

[u/Kenji_03 → u/qumrun60]

I guess that is less expensive than constructing a new building and demolition of the old?

[u/RCT2man → u/waferselamat]

lol 100k — I’m surprised it wasn’t 1M

[u/ImportantSpirit]

Your mom is probably home

[u/kaptainkaos]

r/titlegore

[u/Agitated_Body5781]

I wonder what happens to the plumbing?

[u/nole_life]

As a roadway engineer I’m sweating thinking of how heavy that is.

[u/UnanimousStargazer]

Gives another dimension to the words 'immovable property'.

[u/georgemarred]

How to make people dizzy in 25 seconds or less.

[u/Ladyhappy]

Is this on Langdon? I think I used to live on the street

[u/pizzainoven → u/Ladyhappy]

No, moved from Dayton to basset

[u/actinross]

Take this Londoners! This is THE bus!

[u/craichorse → u/actinross]

Imagine if it was painted red lol

[u/fitandstrong0926]

You can’t park there. 

[u/Bairrfhionn69]

This is not unheard of, in Comunist Romania they moved a building with the people still in it https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/structure-relocation-romania-1987/ and video here https://m.youtube.com/shorts/bQ4YRBzZHtk . Still cool that we can do that though!

[u/Puzzleheaded_Style52]

r/lego

[u/matt_smith_keele]

Wow, the heaviest building ever to be moved in Madison??

Wonder how heavy the other buildings elsewhere were?

[u/thedbcooper67]

That will be a little difficult getting through the toll booth.

[u/flyingbbanana]

Goddamn cool and amazing if you ask me

[u/YourFavoriteXCouple]

Imagine being late to work behind that. "Sorry I'm late but you're never gonna believe this"

[u/fuertepqek]

Stupid fucking music.

[u/pizzainoven]

Credit to @ovjphotography for taking this video, he's also on Reddit. No credit was given by the person who posted this

[u/RalphZombieKiller]

This is just the opening scene in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.

[u/PyrDeus]

European thinking: And the fondations?

[u/Im_Will_Smith]

I need to know how they lifted it. That’s all I care about

[u/Ok-Swim-3356]

I wonder if there’s going to be an HOA?

[u/Ez13zie]

Don’t be an whole.

[u/Komtings]

Apparently me having no volume in a public place was a win for me!

[u/7roses-for-humanity]

Whats the music?

[u/Real-King-Kong]

I am pretty sure i have seen bigger buildings being moved

[u/Gedadahear]

That title pisses me off every attempt to try and read it

[u/Need32mm]

So the owner bought building but not plot?

[u/Momoko89]

I'm probably wrong but this looks more expensive than rebuilding the whole thing in another location. Couldn't he just sell the property, and build another one elsewhere?

[u/AgreeableReturn2351]

Cardboard houses in USA lol

[u/Shwaayyy]

I can only suppose all the residents agreed to it

[u/gari_sun]

This is nothing to the Amish

[u/LadyGodiva243]

I have so many questions about the logistics involved in this

[u/Montana-Safari7]

Not sure I would ever want to live in that thing once it has been moved. Wouldn't trust the integrity of its structure despite anyone telling me it's fine.

[u/microtramp]

Waste not, want not, I guess.

[u/Stachdragon]

There is this, then the fact that they just made being homeless illegal. Staggering inequality.