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No More Neighbors

I live in La Habra, CA right now, and it is a bit different nowadays on our street. There have been quite a few houses for sale on our street, which isn’t too out of the ordinary for California, but now both houses to the north and south of us are vacant. I believe one foreclosed and the other was being rented out by the owners, but the rent wasn’t covering their increasing mortgage payment, so now it sits there empty waiting for a buyer. The house that was rented looks pretty normal (Zillow.com shows it worth $613,000 as of today):

The other house is a serious fixer-upper (Zillow.com still says it is worth $567,000 as of today, and I learned just now that it was sold at auction a couple months ago for $495,000.  Ouch.)….

It seems when the moved they even took the blue tarp covering part of the leaking roof, and who knows how that garage door ever got closed. The garage door honestly had not been closed in at least 4 years, possibly longer, and during that time had folded in half at least one, requiring a bad repair job.

Oh well, I’m glad those neighbors took their 6 (yes, 6!) little yipping dogs with them. They would often escape their backyard, and run right to our yard to get our dogs into a barking fit. Here’s to a better night of sleep!