Foreclosed Homes
If you are reading this Blog you are mostly
aware of the foreclosure crisis that is happening all around us. One issue with foreclosures is that houses
are left abandoned and in most cases unmonitored. Where my house is on Greeley St is a very real picture of what
the foreclosure crisis is doing to the housing market. The house that is directly next to my house
has been abandoned for quit some time. Apparently
many other people have noticed it has been abandoned as well and have been squatting
there. Well it’s New England and the
nights are getting cold so they are going in there to get warm. But not only do they have a roof over their
head but they also have power and gas, because they were never turned off. At night there are people walking all over
the 3 floors and are even cooking in the house. They gained access by a fire escape in back where there is a
window they just kicked right in. I
have called the police a number of times complaining of a break in but I have
never actually seen people inside.
Today I received a e-mail for one of the tenants voicing her concern of
her safety and the safety of my house.
I said I would look into it, which took much longer then I expected. I started with the town tax assessor’s office,
which was little help but was able to give me the name of the lender they had
on file. This sent me down a long dead
end road. So after about an hour I was
still no closer to finding the owner or if the property was foreclosed. I ended up going do to the town records
office and spoke with this very nice, very beautiful girl Wendy. She was able to help me be giving me more
info and a few other lender names they had on file for the owner. One of the lenders was able to tell me that
they were holding the dead and the property had been foreclosed on. After I told them about the squatters they
informed me they would send out an assessor to look over the property and determine
what needed to be done. She said they
would most likely board up the windows and turn off all the utilities. If there is no sign of any assessor in the
next 2 weeks I will be forced to take matters into my own hands and board up
the windows on my own. The last thing I
want is a gas explosion because some drunks snuck in and decided to light their
crack pipe with the gas stove.
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