LOS ANGELES (KCAL, KCBS) — A house whose proprietor was just lately sued by Los Angeles County for the staggering quantity of junk in its yard has now been put up on the market.
Final week, shortly after KCBS reported the general public nuisance criticism, the Granada Hills home went in the marketplace for $875,000.
Earlier than the county’s swimsuit, the town of Los Angeles spent $12,000 to wash up the litter. Neighbors say that anytime authorized motion has been taken, the trash disappears — however solely briefly.
A current aerial picture of the property exhibits six autos, in varied states of disrepair, within the driveway, in addition to a protracted trailer of particles and a U-Haul field truck on the curb. The yard, too, is stuffed with junk.
Like the opposite houses within the San Fernando Valley neighborhood, it's a circa-1960 single-story house of modest measurement — 1,722 sq. ft, 4 bedrooms. Property information point out it was final offered in 2000 for $258,000.
Neighbors have complained in regards to the house since 2018. In November of final 12 months, the town despatched staff to clear greater than 10 tons of trash from the entrance yard. The cleanup, approved by Councilman John Lee, value $12,000 in public funds — and neighbors say the impact was short-lived.
Los Angeles County has referred to as the house an “incessant supply of public nuisance,” submitting the lawsuit towards each the lady who owns the property and her grownup son. It goes on to say that the property harbors rodents and roaches, and other than being an eyesore, can be an “extreme and fixed noise disturbance.”
The lawsuit additional alleges that the residents have subjected their neighbors to “public nuisance circumstances which have endangered the residents’ well being, property, security and welfare, and have considerably and unreasonably interfered with the residents’ comfy enjoyment of life and property.”
The asking value of $875,000 is in keeping with current gross sales within the neighborhood. A home on the identical block offered a number of months in the past for $1 million.
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