Vacant Sacramento Home Vandalized And New Owners Can’t Sell

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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Potential squatters successful Sacramento person vandalized a Tahoe Park home. The 14th Ave. location has been sitting vacant for 5 months arsenic a existent property tech institution tries and fails to merchantability it.

With boarded windows and breached blinds, the Sacramento location is successful atrocious shape.

“It’s boarded up and vandalized and who wants to bargain that,” said Tahoe Park neighbour Paige Moss who tells CBS13 the owners of the location moved retired months ago. “One time they told america they were selling the house.”

According to Sacramento County Sacramento County Assessor’s Office, existent property tech institution Opendoor bought it connected June 15, 2021. It’s been vacant ever since.

“There’s perpetually radical breaking into the location unsavory radical that marque america not consciousness safe,” said Paige.

For 5 months, neighbors connected 14^th Ave. accidental they’ve watched respective crimes instrumentality place.

“Coming location from enactment and seeing constabulary cars retired beforehand and arresting idiosyncratic that’s surviving successful there. We’re talking astir starting a household and it makes you deliberation doubly astir that stuff,” said neighbour Michael Jensen.

We reached retired to Opendoor. The institution responded: “We are moving intimately with the section constabulary to place and prosecute the individuals involved.”

But neighbors accidental Opendoor employees are obscurity to beryllium seen.

“I’ve ne'er met anybody from Opendoor,” said Moss.

So wherefore isn’t the spot selling? We’re getting answers.

Opendoor has the spot listed for $495,000.

“If it’s not priced reasonably a property’s much prone to sit,” said Ryan Lundquist who says the stale spot is much susceptible to crime.

“If squatters… are… seeing continuously there’s a existent property motion successful beforehand of the spot and there’s nary activity, then, yea, it makes it a much viable target. Opendoor they ain 352 properties successful the region. When you person that galore homes, possibly these ones falling done the cracks,” said Lundquist.

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The Sacramento Police Department told CBS13 that immoderate squatters’ cases are handled done the civilian tribunal process. Other cases could beryllium transgression successful quality and the constabulary section tin instrumentality enforcement enactment successful those instances.