Real Estate/Development
Feb. 22, 2021
How neighborhoods can fight nuisance properties
Dealing with severe nuisance properties presents unique challenges for cities, because typical code enforcement efforts of notifying and fining owners are ineffective. For example, if the owner is deceased, no amount of city fines, phone calls, or written notices can make the owner fix the problem.
Ryan Griffith
Attorney and Associate Receiver
Bay Area Receivership Group
Every city has a fire damaged, abandoned, vacant or otherwise-blighted property within its borders. Severe nuisance properties surface for numerous reasons. These reasons can include property owners dying without heirs, zombie foreclosures (see "Zombie foreclosure: What is it and how can it be fixed," Daily Journal (April 29, 2020)), drug houses with substa...
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