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- Feb 19, 2017
The house doesn't belong to Chris, and Barb's debts are enormous. It certainly takes time to do a foreclosure and eviction, so he won't be out on his ass immediately, but there are very few scenarios in which Chris can keep 14BC. No debtor is going to say "well, we're owed this much, but the house is worth less than that and it's the only asset, so we aren't going to touch it." The house will probably have to be gutted due to the Hoard and all of the dog piss and shit, but it's almost certainly salvageable.
I don't think Chris will stay at 14 Branchland long enough for the Repo Depot to show up at his door after Barb is gone. Chris has stated multiple times that he hates living in the hoard and wants out, and this continued even after he trooned out and went crazy.
The dimensional merge delusions are a coping mechanism that was encouraged and agitated by the Idea Guys and it continued even after they were out of the picture. But I'll offer a dissenting opinion about why he's coping by retreating into fantasy.
Chris is doing this elaborate otherkin solo LARP not because he doesn't want to deal with a post-Barb world, but it's a coping mechanism for being stuck and isolated in 14 Branchland.
Once Barb dies and the funeral is over and done with, I think Chris will do what he can to get out of 14 Branchland as soon as he can, although his laziness pretty much guarantees it'll be at least a few months to a year. He'll do more e-begging and I could see simps and weens buying more merch of his to try and get out, even if his moving plans will be very half-assed Hail Mary plans at best.
I honestly expect him to load up as much of his Lego and Pokemon merch as he can fit into the minivan and drive away, and that's when the homeless saga will begin. If someone suggests him moving out of the Charlottesville area to somewhere cheaper and happens to catch him in the right mood, he might actually do it after Barb is gone since nothing will be anchoring him to the hoard.
If he moves out of the Charlottesville area to somewhere cheaper, he probably could rent some rinky-dink trailer or ratty apartment on the cheap. He won't like it, but it'll be better than being homeless for the rest of his life.
Hell, if he was really desperate and knew where to look, he could probably find some really cheap seedy motel to check into and pay nightly rent (the non-chain low-end places are often as low as $40 a night during the peak travel seasons, and cheaper in off-seasons) and his tugboat probably would be enough to cover that, plus whatever he gets from Patreon or whatever.
As for 14 Branchland Court itself, I think the house itself is too far gone to be resold on its own but they could definitely repossess it for the land value alone. If they bought the property, went and cleaned up the yard, and demolished the house, you could probably put up a new house and sell it for a decent price.
Ruckersville itself seems more semi-suburban/small town as opposed to the redneck shithole it's so commonly assumed to be.