A Georgia homeowner’s southwest Atlanta house was demolished while she was away on vacation.
She found out that her home was being reduced to rubble after a neighbor called her to ask if she’d hired a team to destroy the house.
Sarah Hodgson said she told the neighbor she did no such a thing and was further informed that a company had come and “just demolished the whole house and tore it all down.” She was outraged.
“I am furious. I keep waking up thinking, ‘Is this all a joke or something?’ I’m just in shock,” Hodgson said in an interview with the Associated Press.
According to the woman, her neighbor confronted the “You Call It We Haul It” demolition team, and they “told her to shut up and mind her own business.”
Hodgson eventually contacted a person from her family to go and look at the property. The person spoke to the site supervisor, who checked the permit and admitted to tearing down the wrong house.
Instead of offering a resolution, he then ordered the work crew to pack up their gear and leave. However, by this time, Hodgson’s home was gone.
Hodgson did not live in the home but says while vacant, it was not abandoned.
“[The house has] been boarded up about 15 years, and we keep it boarded, covered, grass cut, and the yard is clean. The taxes are paid, and everything is up on it,” she explained.
Now she is considering pressing charges, asking, “How do people just go up and tear somebody’s property down and then just drive off?” adding, “I just wish he would come fix the problem that he caused.”
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