In this video, Carter Banks (BigBankz) walks through an empty house:
Yup, I found it. In various points in the video, you can see the street number, 3290:
Minimal Google searching uncovered it:
The back story is simple: Raymond H. Zimmerman lived here, and he died in 2021 at age 96. It appears he had a successful career with a defense contractor and then as an entrepreneur, was active in his church, married a person of good character, and had 4 children, 9 grandchildren, and 19 great grandchildren. Astoundingly, Carter characterizes this as a “crime family”!
A pervasive theme of Carter’s videos is to build intrigue by alleging a mysterious abandonment. This house is not abandoned. It was listed as a teardown in 2021, and it was sold just a few months after Raymond’s death. Its current owner likely hasn’t gotten around to doing the teardown.
While a company named Barbara’s Rescues and Boarding is associated with the property, this company may be fictitious. A Georgia corporation search does not turn up anything, there are scant references to it online, and Carter’s walkthrough video reveals no evidence of an animal-related operation.
The property is not worth even half of Carter’s alleged $2,000,000. Cobb County appraised it at $848,920, and Zillow pegs it at $767,200.
Finally, this place is hardly a mansion. At 6000-7000 square feet, it’s a very large house, but it’s at least 1,000 square feet too small to be considered a mansion.
You just watched a snoozer of a video: a 23-minute walkthrough of a cleared-out, teardown house.
Hello, I’d appreciate if you stop using my name the way that you do. I don’t think you realize what revealing these locations does to them. People will find your page and go to all of these houses and destroy them. There’s a reason that I do my videos the way that i do. So people don’t come and ruin them. I’ll give it to you that you are a very intelligent person in your ability to find the smallest things to pinpoint the locations. But your average viewer will not be able to do so. There are people that watch my videos just to try to find them to vandalize and burglarize. So that’s why some stories are stretched or made up so the place can stay protected as long as possible. I hope you understand.
The reason you do the videos the way you do is because you’re a fraud who simply wants to bring in more money through clickbait. Most urban explorers don’t care about “protecting” locations for anything other than for their own self-serving, childish reasons. If you care about the locations then don’t put them online. It’s as simple as that.
I bet you explore some torn up ass hospital. People own these properties what if your sentimental house got abandoned and your house address is spread how would you feel??
Yes, because concocting some childish/slanderous story about the previous owners, and posting a video of the place on youtube for millions of people to see is somehow more respectful. The idea that you guys care about anyone’s feelings or privacy is absurd.
you dont need to tell a storyline you can just explore
Honestly I don’t get why you do this kinda stuff. You’re a big reason why “non abandoned” locations get destroyed. It’s clear there’s an ego game going on and you need to feel some sorta validation by “exposing” these explorers. Crazy to think you feel gratification from this
yea so you say not abandoned i’ve been here the place is covered in mold and had tons of smashed windows so you’re completely wrong on that part aren
Meh, call it what you want. It’s a property that was purchased as a teardown, and the teardown simply has not happened yet. This is planned obsolescence, not an abandonment.