A 1992 manufactured home in a Tahuya private community has been taken over by ne’re-do-wells leaving busted cars, campers & trash piled high throughout the property…..
(2) legal lots for the discounted price of one
Got a call yesterday from the auction company with this property they were needing to unload. It consists of (2) buildable lots with the existing mobile on the inner lot with a connecting driveway easement to the road. Once again, trembling with greed, we said hell yes, we’ll take it, sight unseen. The previous buyer had stated that the occupants were preparing to leave (yeah right….) I went by today and knocked on every door (and camper door) but no response, just blaring televisions and a bored cat staring at me through the window…. We have a lot of work (legal & otherwise) ahead of us.
Initial walk thru…after the sheriff carefully ascertained the home was safe to enter.
After a few more days of scrap out, we could view the condition of the interior.
Nearly at the finish line… a brief walk around video of the exterior, before final septic installation and landscaping….
Crossing the finish line (finally!)
Over the years we’ve seen the wide range of reasons leading up to a property going into foreclosure. Rarely does Aunt Milley end up losing the farm akin to dustbowl families being forced off their land circa 1933. People make poor life choices including severing family ties, overspending on credit cards & abusing drugs or alcohol. But even investors at auction can make poor choices, not first kicking the tires of the property they so eagerly want to acquire. There seem to always be a myriad of snakes in the grass discovered during the post auction walk thru. This home looked like it was in decent shape from the outside but upon getting inside was truly a lil’ shop of horrors…. Adding to that the underground issues: replacing the septic drain field & a broken buried power line and we were left with an ever-dwindling pile of cash. Nearly every week a property, previously purchased at auction, comes round again with that investor’s head on the proverbial chopping block - cashless and hardly better off than the previous owner’s bankrupt financial circumstances.