More On The Problems With Vacant Houses

In Tracy, California, the Tracy Press starts a recent story about the kinds of problems that commonly accompany foreclosures, vacant and abandoned homes with this blurb:

• For the past six years, Paul and Elsa Kennedy have watched the house across the street from them deteriorate. A man and his elderly father lived there when the Kennedys moved in, Paul said. A local real estate company appeared to be ready to restore it a couple of years ago, but since then the only people who seemed to drop by were curious kids, drug users and copper wire thieves.

For more, see Code of conduct (The rise in foreclosures and vacant homes keeps code enforcement officials busy).

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