ATLANTA (AP) — A house owner is mulling the following step after an organization mistakenly demolished a house she owned in southwest Atlanta.
Susan Hodgson stated in an interview Saturday with The Related Press that she discovered a pile of rubble rather than what was her longtime household property when she returned from trip final month.
“I’m livid,” Hodgson stated. “I maintain waking up pondering, ‘Is that this all a joke or one thing?’ I’m simply in shock.”
She stated a neighbor referred to as her whereas she was away and requested if somebody had been employed to tear down the vacant home.
“I stated ‘no’ and he or she stated, ‘Effectively, there’s somebody over right here who simply demolished the entire home and tore all of it down,’” Hodgson recalled.
When the neighbor confronted them, Hodgson stated, the employees bought nasty.
“He advised her to close up and thoughts her personal enterprise,” Hodgson stated.
She despatched a member of the family over to see what was occurring and who requested to see a allow. When an individual in cost on the website checked his allow, Hodgson stated he admitted he was on the flawed tackle.
“It’s been boarded up about 15 years, and we maintain it boarded, coated, grass lower, and the yard is clear,” she stated. “The taxes are paid and all the pieces is up on it.”
Hodgson stated she’s filed a report with police and has talked with attorneys however that they continue to be in limbo up to now.
“We’re nonetheless on this strategy of determining what to do,” she stated. “We maintain urgent in several instructions to see if one thing goes to occur.”
To today, she stated the Atlanta-based firm accountable, You Name It We Haul It, has but to contact her.
“How do folks simply go up and tear anyone’s property down after which simply drive off?” Hodgson stated. “How can they assume that’s OK? I simply want he would come repair the issue that he prompted.
“It’s simply arduous to consider somebody thinks they’ve the correct to only come and tear one thing up and stroll away from it and didn’t come again and say ‘I’m sorry. What do I must do to repair this? It was an accident.’ They didn’t give me nothing.”
The corporate didn’t instantly return a phone message left Saturday. In an announcement to WAGA-TV, the corporate stated it’s investigating and dealing to resolve the mishap.
Related Press author Chevel Johnson Rodrigue contributed to this report from New Orleans.
