Does anyone else find it curious that Chris is responding to issues and comments raised here in near real time (either he's reading here or someone is relaying stuff to him) - about the cars, his piercing, his gender identity, his e-bay sales, his kickstarter, etc - but the one issue doesn't comment on (despite it being raised here constantly) is their future housing plans?
I have no problem believing that Barb has kept Chris in the dark about what's really going on regarding housing, but it seems odd that he ignores the issue entirely rather than simply posting what he believes to be the case as he does regarding other issues.
I also wonder whether the car sell-off is somehow related to pressure mounting regarding the old house. You can't generally just abandon a fire damaged property indefinitely. At some point you'll come under outside pressure to either file plans for repairing the property and have to start that work by a certain date or you'll need to demolish it and clean up the land. It wouldn't surprise me if the Chandlers are under-insured in the first place (many people are) and they're unable to proceed with whatever plan they have without contributing some cash of their own.