Foreclosures= Threat to Public Health?

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<p>Riverside County has recorded its first human case of West Nile virus. This is the second human case reported in the Inland Empire this year. County health officials are worried about a glut of abandoned pools on foreclosed properties that they think could lead to a big mosquito problem. (source: KPCC 89.3)</p>



<em><img height="173" alt="Pool Photo" hspace="3" width="234" align="middle" vspace="5" border="1" src="http://www.ocvcd.org/images/pool.jpg" /></em>
 
This is more under the category of house=threat to public health, but it could very well be a foreclosure...


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<a href="http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/article_1987885.php">Villa Park home possibly a public nuisance</a></strong>


<em>Officials to decide tonight whether to hold a public hearing next month on the matter.</em>





The City Council is expected to decide tonight whether to schedule a public hearing about a home so filthy that code enforcement officers were forced to red-tag it.





Officials will determine if the home, located at 10532 Center Drive, is considered a public nuisance at a proposed March 25 hearing.





Tonight's council meeting will take place 7:30 p.m. at City Hall.





On Feb. 6, the Sheriff's Department served a search warrant on the home, enabling city code enforcement to inspect the house and deem it unfit for overnight occupation, according to city documents.





<strong>Building officials and code enforcement officers found severe buildup of household debris, cat feces and food, dirt, dust and cobwebs. The kitchen had no running water and enough filth to potentially attract vermin. The baths and toilets were either semi-operational or nonfunctioning.</strong>





<strong>The home had no lighting or heating, and the master bathroom had "some form of winged insect in large quantities" on the walls, according to documents.</strong>


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Piles of feces all around the house, clutter and cobwebs were also found.





</strong>Major cleaning, plumbing and electric work and removal of indoor drywall, flooring material, cabinetry and countertops and more must be completed at minimum.
 
Hey! What's up with finding articles trashing (pun intended) my hood? I should go do a drive by and get a .jpg.





Wait! That is my house!
 
[quote author="IrvineRenter" date=1189018049]<h4><a href="http://www.ocweekly.com/news/talk/beyond-the-valley-of-the-dirt-people/15211/">the Valley of the Dirt People</a></h4></blockquote>


I thought this link was to the Prado homes in Portola Springs.
 
Please, please... allow for me to rip on my own hood. It seems they have a bit of difficulty finding the owner of said VP property. Perhaps, the dope dealing money launderers have found another neighborhood to pilfer. I hear Irvine is a good place to go...



<a href="http://www.villapark.org/meetingvideo/2008/072208/4.html">Video link to the council meeting</a>.



I might just have to post some pictures of said house. Because they have no f'ing clue how bad it really is.
 
At least these Pacific Palisades women are not your neighbors <a href="http://www.laweekly.com/2008-07-31/news/rathouse-of-the-palisades/">Palisades Rathouse</a>
 
[quote author="stepping_up" date=1219617469]At least these Pacific Palisades women are not your neighbors <a href="http://www.laweekly.com/2008-07-31/news/rathouse-of-the-palisades/">Palisades Rathouse</a></blockquote>


Yeah... no kidding. After reading that, I have come to the conclusion the city of LA has the most inept and incompetent people working in some of the public services. I hear LAPD kicks a$$. ;-)



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<em>Days before the Beverly Hills ruling, the sisters hired American Pest Control to tent the house. A crew wearing facemasks and hazmat suits emerged pale-faced and sober, as if they had just witnessed the aftermath of a biohazard spill ? which, in a way, they had. Scott Denham says they hauled several large garbage bags heavy with dead rats from the bedrooms, kitchen, attic, basement and guesthouse, as the Denhams took photos.



City prosecutor Strick never pressed charges, but the case is open for another year. Disconcertingly, Vector Management's Gail VanGordon has no regrets about the county's or city's incredible inaction. "Most of the time, we're invited inside," VanGordon tells the Weekly. "They wouldn't let anyone inside, and we're strictly informed about the laws of privacy. We can't step on our tiptoes to look over a brick wall. That's a violation of privacy. It would be thrown out of court." She adds, "We're not social workers."



That's absolute nonsense, says Madeline Bernstein, president of Los Angeles' Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The former prosecutor says that while the City Attorney's Office and Vector Management may have lacked grounds to push for a criminal search warrant, clearly "there are lower-level search [warrants] that would apply in this area." Bernstein called the city and county failures in the case "amazing. It's like a monumental crack that these women are falling through."



Ultimately, former owner Garner and Sotheby's settled out of court after the Denhams' lone witness, Louis Rico, was deposed. His testimony about Garner's and Sotheby's failure to disclose was damning.



Garner, who lives in a sprawling Brentwood mansion with Welcome to Mooseport producer Basil Iwanyk, paid the Denhams $115,000. Sotheby's paid $15,000 for the deception by its agents, Boyle and Symons. In June, Garner audaciously tried to sue the Barthels too, demanding that they pay the $115,000 because they caused the rat boom. A judge threw out her suit.</em>



Oops, the agent was found to be deceptive about the rats...
 
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