Wow man, this has become one of my favorite threads! Good for you for having the discipline to keep quiet about this place until the appropriate time. I can't imagine the agony of waiting a week until I could return with a camera: Will the window still be open? Will someone be there when I return? Will I ever get back inside?
It's a shame to hear what happened. Hopefully there was an auction of some sort for the possessions inside the house. Imagining all those relics being buried beneath the walls by bulldozers makes me think crazy thoughts, like operations involving wheelbarrows and blacked-out U-Haul trucks at 4am.
Of course I'm just kidding. Mostly.