Woman returns from vacation to find Atlanta home demolished
Woman returns from vacation to find Atlanta home demolished
A homeowner is mulling the next step after a company mistakenly demolished a home she owned in southwest Atlanta.
“It’s been boarded up about 15 years, and we keep it boarded, covered, grass cut, and the yard is clean,” she said. “The taxes are paid and everything is up on it.”
might be why they thought it was the one to tear down tbh
Yeah the title would have you thinking she got back from holiday and everything she owned was probably in there.
The fact she was on vacation is entirely irrelevant to the story. It's inclusion is solely to lead the reader to think it was her primary residence.
Famously on a US military base they were so behind on maintenance work orders that one day a crew showed up to install new exterior doors on a storage building and the next day a different crew showed up and demolished the building.
Who just shows up and starts doing without checking first?
It is better to ask forgiveness than to ask permission?
The rapist MO.
I'm sure they checked first, they just weren't very good at checking.
Years back I was putting in a landscape on a house when a guy in a backhoe shows up next door and just starts ripping out the walkway from the neighbor's driveway to front door.
It was the wrong house. He had to finish the demolition and repour the walkway. We all laughed and laughed at the situation.
It's nowhere near a house being torn down, but it happens.
"Yep, you'll have that on them big jobs."
@stopthatgirl7 the company “is working to resolve the mishap”. WTF? how is the foreperson of the job site not in jail?
Maybe they're deciding how much to bill her for demolishing her derelict abandoned building.
@Mouselemming Only the local jurisdiction can force that, usually by condemning the building, and then notice is required to be given. The demo crow literally had no permit, the law is clearly on the property owner’s side in this case.
Maybe if it can be shown their actions were malicious and not accidental. If not, more likely it’s purely a civil case.
A contractor right by me set the woods on fire after being told by the fire chef to stop burning on windy days. They burnt during 30 miles an hour winds and it took out tons of undergrowth, and nearly got a couple houses. Guy still walks free, no fines or anything
Because whoever runs the site probably isn't the person that made the decision to raze the building. No liability should fall to them if they're found to be doing their job properly.
@hiddengoat @stopthatgirl7 That’s not how the law works. Everybody involved in the crime gets charged.
She's a crazy person and they had a boarded up property they didn't live in get destroyed.
The ok imagine you grandma dies and leaves you the place.
1 not expensive to maintain. 2 a second house is like a stash of money or simply a safeguard. 3 wtf is wrong with you? If I go around breaking you heirlooms and your shit in general. I'm crazy for wanting you checked?
She's crazy cuz the guy cant read the right address he's supposed to demolish....
Wow! How fucked is it that a company can fuck up tear your house down at the wrong address then just shurg and apparently you have no recourse? Something off here maybe we aren't getting the whole story. No way that isn't a lawsuit the fact that she in limbo and no attorney wouldn't take the case makes me wonder.
Reading deeper into the story it at first reads like they tore her house down while she was away on vacation. The real story is she wasn't living in said house and it had been vacant for 15 years. So something not adding up.
Article doesn't say no attorney would take the case. It says they talked to a lawyer. And they're in limbo. Meaning they're still deciding how to pursue this matter.
So they're looking for the best approach. Not that there is a lack of approach.
An attorney would happily take a losing case. They get paid either way. Their job is to get the best outcome possible, not to win a lawsuit--though that may end up being the best outcome.
Contingency cases don’t require payment if lost.
This is why companies need to have insurance.
You think someone wanted the land?
I think the house was abandon and she even claims it was boarded up. Good chance the county or city allowed this to happen. I have property in a county and the city council in a local town says that if your home looks abandon or trash they will seize your property clean it up then bill you for said clean up. He was very proud of this.
Also how she says she spoke to attorneys and none will take her case and she in limbo means that she has no case and no recourse. I like to know why?
It goes way beyond insurance and monetary compensation. There needs to be criminal liability for destroying someone's home.
Some people have paid off their mortgage, or otherwise don't have the requirement to carry homeowners insurance. If they need an influx of cash to finance something like a lawsuit, they told take a line of credit against their assets. If their biggest asset was destroyed, what the fuck they gonna do