Despite Tragic Past, Property Becomes a Successful Local Business

Although this property was the subject of municipal health and safety code enforcement efforts, the owner was uncooperative with officials and failed to remedy the violations of local and state laws.

Years passed and the house languished in a dilapidated state until it was sadly engulfed by an electrical fire.

Unfortunately, a friend of the owner was living in the attic at the time and tragically suffocated in the fire.

Photos of the Property Before Receivership

Receivership Remedy Results in Safe and Prosperous Business on Formerly Dilapidated Site

We were appointed as the Receiver of this property and demolished the burned-out structure. We sold the empty lot to a buyer who constructed a warehouse in its place for his commercial and residential painting company. The local business employs seventeen people and provides a valuable service to the community.

Images of the nuisance property, then empty lot following demolition, contrast sharply with the business that now occupies the space.

Photos of the Property After Receivership

  
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Single-Family Home

Health and Safety Receivership Reforms a Neglected Home

Single-Family Home

After our initial inspection, C.R.G. deemed the house uninhabitable and we worked with a local social worker and family members to relocate the residents to an assisted living facility to receive the proper care that they needed. With the receivership remedy in place, C.R.G. was able to clean up and rebuild the property into a beautiful single-family home. The property was sold to an owner who proved that they were capable of maintaining the home and the remaining sale proceeds were given to the original owners for their ongoing care.

Single-Family Home

Commercial Property, Hotel or Motel, Apartment Building

Receivership Property Survives California’s Deadliest Wildfire

Commercial Property, Hotel or Motel, Apartment Building

In the 9 years prior to our appointment, local code enforcement tried to work with the owners of this motel to fix the 203 separate violations of state housing law onsite. There was a complete lack of maintenance of the property, demonstrated by the jet-black water in the swimming pool. The conditions at the motel were so severe that they actually sparked a fire. The fire caused considerable damage to a neighboring property, where it burned out and destroyed a business that had been operating at that location for over 35 years. This case is evidence of the significant danger that violations of municipal and state health and safety laws pose to the surrounding community.

Commercial Property, Hotel or Motel, Apartment Building

Single-Family Home, Historically Significant Property

Historic Folk Victorian Style Property is Brought Back to Life

Single-Family Home, Historically Significant Property

Originally built over a century ago, poor maintenance left this beautiful, Folk Victorian style home in a state of extreme disrepair. After seven years of local code enforcement efforts to encourage the owners to act on fixing the hazardous issues onsite were unsuccessful, we were appointed as the Receiver by a Superior Court Judge. We found the property structurally unsound, with hoarding conditions inside the house, as well as a major rodent and insect infestation. Neighbors were plagued by foul odors emanating from the property and accumulated junk, as well as overgrown landscaping, littered the exterior of the property leaving an eyesore that partially blocked the public sidewalk. We determined that the best cause of action was to renovate this historic property and remove the dangerous conditions.

Single-Family Home, Historically Significant Property

Single-Family Home

Scene of a Tragedy is Transformed into a Treatment Center Through Receivership

Single-Family Home

Although we’ve performed major renovations both before and since, this particular scenario made demolition the most feasible option. The continued negligence from the owners plus the comparatively low cost of leveling versus restoring allowed us to give the property a new beginning from the ground up. Once we had cleaned out the property and safely disposed of the hazardous material, we gave the City’s fire department the opportunity to use the property for a practice drill and training exercise, including a controlled burn—a fitting reversal of the property’s initial status as a fire hazard.

Single-Family Home