I prefer to remember the place before it was trashed..but its for sale so.....heres the story on it...the first pics are how we left it when we went on a trip to visit family in California ..3 months prior we had agreed to a temporary joint tenancy for a few months with a family who came from Colorado in the spring who wanted to buy it for 125,000.00 but would not have the funds until their mothers home closed, they contacted us saying they had the opportunity at a new job starting here in September and would need to move in quickly.. We were stupid and trusted them - wanted to help them out actually.. totally unaware that scammers actually try to steal houses... we let them move in. The morning after we returned (feb 4th) we we found the 1st floor (basement) flooded, they left a toilet in the back room flowing for awhile, indicated by an over 800.00 water bill. Most of our belongings, furniture, kitchen items..etc missing from the 1st and 2nd floors, and the 3rd floor where their bedrooms, our laundry room, 3rd fl kitchen and auditorium were locked off to us as well as the 1st fl gym chained and locked, along with a barking dog (we had agreed on no dogs). They refused to leave and said we would have to evict them. We filed to have them evicted on 2/7/2018. it was a long process because the scammers claimed that they owned our home and had a contract - that turned out to be a document they typed up titled 'verbal agreement' (that we never agreed to or saw until the court made them produce it). During the 4 years these people bought a dilapidated empty house down the street from ours (think it was 3k,) where they spent hours on facebook and other social media sites making daily live videos claiming we killed their dogs, harassed them, their children, poisoned people, pets, slandered us in the local churches, stalked us.. anything and everything they could to gain empathy and have people send them money plus promote violence against us, they used our building address for fundraising saying they were opening a foster home for kids and needed beds on 2 occasions that we are aware of..their friend ( just out on bail for pulling a knife on police) letting out the air in our tires in the court parking lot - while we were in court (caught on the courts security cameras) other friends of theirs falsely claiming they were process servers with court orders from the Colorado court they also tried to scam…for 5 years this stuff went on.
Through friends, we have 100's of hours of their facebook videos and copies of chats they posted in groups. In May 2021 we had had enough and moved, the court made its decision in our favor a month later in April of 2021 but the scammers, as they publicly stated in their videos they wanted us financially ruined by bogging down the down the courts, so appealed to the supreme court. That court made the final decision to uphold the original courts decision on 3/4/2022.
The place has been cleaned and is empty now. But we are physically and financially unable to restore the damage they did which was (half painted walls, floors, scratches to the finishes, drapery etc..) and have dropped the price accordingly by 35,000.00 which was the courts property damage/repair ruling (we have not received any of the courts rulings/awards to date as they fled the state after the final ruling).
This was the third floor before being trashed. It had 3 large bedrooms, a center hall eat-in-kitchen, huge bathroom with laundry room. Has been emptied and cleaned, all the drapery is gone, most of the rooms on this floor need repainting now, walls and floors as it was left several different color blocks ..red, blues..and the finishes have been scratched. The fridge was removed as well as the kitchen sink/under cabinet and replaced with an unfitted one that leaks, some of the cabinets removed. There are 11 ceiling fans, 3 gas fireplaces, an electric instant hot water unit, 3 older window a/c units that work on this floor
