Next Door Neighbor Threatened With Jail For Sprucing Up Vacant, Abandoned Home In Foreclosure

In North Las Vegas, Nevada, KLAS-TV Channel 8 reports:

• The foreclosure crisis has left thousands of homes in Clark County sitting empty. Those vacant properties soon become eyesores. A North Las Vegas man is doing his part to try to prevent an abandoned home from becoming a neighborhood nuisance. Now, he says he was threatened with jail time. The owners abandoned the place a few weeks ago because they couldn't afford it. The grass was overgrown and the pool collecting debris. The man next door had enough, so he decided to spruce up the place. But the bank that owns the home threatened him with jail.

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• The home will likely sit empty for months. [Said the alleged serial criminal trespasser living next door trying to maintain the neighborhood:] "There are three houses right around there that are. Their yard has been that way for two years -- no landscape, broken windows, and I don't want this house to turn out like that."

For more, see Foreclosed Homes Create Messy Eyesore (read story) (watch video).