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So, you’re a qualified contractor right?

Hey there how you doing? So for those of you who don’t know me my name is John Schink and I’m the founder and managing broker of Deerwood Realty here in St. Louis, Missouri. I’ve got a story for you today, seems like a contractor might have gone a little haywire or something to that effect.

Whatever happened, it’s not so great.

I wanted to mention that I got another subscriber yesterday. I’m up to six so my goals have been achieved! I just wanted one one follower now I have it. So let’s go into the transition here and and take a look. Let’s do this.

And here we go.

The headline, “house left destroyed puzzles worries northeast side neighbors.” Now this is in San Antonio, so we’ve been kind of stuck up north for a while now…we’re coming down to Texas. It says here nice house online value estimated at $300,000 and I don’t know if you can see that picture there but that’s one of them. I’ll leave a link in the description below so you can read it and and believe it for yourself it’s really quite something.

From San Antonio, at first neighbors in this in the Pheasant Ridge subdivision said they thought the two-story vacant house in the 5300 block of Stormy Skies was being remodeled until Luis Montenegro, who lives next door, saw a man on the roof with a chainsaw. Something was just off about the remodel they were doing they were claiming to do at least neighbors said. Eventually the roof was mostly gone so was the siding the windows along with practically everything else over several days.

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“They completely ripped up our house they sure as hell did didn’t they they really ripped the guts out of it”

Timothy Davis who lives nearby said, “you’d think that a tornado came through and set down on that house then went back up there was no other damage around it” he said.

The neighbors are worried that there’s going to be curiosity seekers or children in the neighborhood out of school for the summer, going through the house, and you know something could happen, maybe the house falls on them or something like that so obviously a reason to be worried. Montenegro the neighbor said he approached a man who was taking photos of the house as if he was assessing the damage and then quotes, “he said he was a contractor and he was going to be the one working here on the house,” and then later on it says however a code enforcement officer at the house Tuesday posted a stop work order that’s issued when there’s no permit for the work being done so according to the city the work is being done without a permit.

Okay so “KSAT 12 news has learned that the house at one time was involved in a lawsuit that led to an eviction and a foreclosure.” So there’s an insinuation here that maybe there’s some there’s some foul play.

So I have questions

What in the world? Have you ever heard of such a thing? You’re in a nice neighborhood just minding your own business, people next door, you see a guy with a chainsaw on the roof and he starts cutting it down and and everything’s fine and and then all of a sudden three or four days later there’s nothing left of the house. And you know no one bought it, and you didn’t. You know there’s no sign in the yard so now we have this house, it’s just a wreck in the neighborhood.

So the man on the roof with a chainsaw… Was that… If your neighbor… was that the moment you thought that, “hey, maybe something might be …. something might be wrong here, somebody may not be qualified to be doing the work. Since it was an abandoned house, I mean, I don’t know when you have a fix and flip or something like that in St. Louis you’ll see a dumpster out front. You’ll see a lot of work being done .. normally they try to keep it kind of quiet, and if it’s really really good contractors they’ll actually have permits outside on the windows. So I would say there’s your first clue after the man with the chainsaw on the roof that the things weren’t being done up to code. So that’s that and then the code enforcement putting a stop work order on the house so now everything’s fine.

I mean, Can you imagine you’re sitting there, you’re part of a neighborhood; you take care of your house, you cut the grass, and now a neighbor… well someone… has decided to destroy a house next to you. I just don’t know what I would do and and calling the code enforcement I guess.

I mean the stop work order now seems a little bit late.

And then finally it says the spokesperson says if no permit was being pulled they will issue a citation. Now that’s what. That’s what I’m trying to figure out so who are you going to cite if it’s a foreclosure and eviction? Who are you going to cite?

I don’t know… What do you think? I do know that no one has called, no one has called the podcast call in line number. 314-274-3964. that’s 314-274-3964. I haven’t got an email yet; we’re three days in I think, We’ve got at least 10 views from yesterday’s podcast so you know, It’d be good to get this thing moving forward. If you had a story I don’t eve..n you know, Is it true? Is it real? I mean, that story does look true and real and that looks like a real problem for those people. But we don’t know. Maybe like in Kirkwood you have homes ripped down and put back up to make mansions and everybody’s happy, and you just go on down the road. I wouldn’t say everybody’s happy but that’s probably for another show.

Anyway I just wanted to bring that to you. It’s almost a “what would you do?” And what could you do? It’s not your property, but in a way we don’t seem to be treating each other very well in our neighborhoods, and let’s get to it. Let’s get a little better with this .. if you’re angry with if you’re with your neighbor, If your neighbor’s having issues and moves out, probably not the not the greatest thing in the world to chainsaw down the house.

So we got dumpsters, turkeys murdered, and now a house that’s just been destroyed and no one knows anything about it.

Have a good evening or a good day wherever you are and I’ll catch you on the next one, Thanks!

Link here: https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2021/06/09/house-left-destroyed-puzzles-worries-ne-side-neighbors/