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<span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:12pt;"><div>Hello, all,</div><div><br></div><div>I am trying to help a friend deal with a nuisance adjacent to their property. Short summary of the history:</div><div>-Owner (O) of nuisance property (NP) abandoned property, stopped paying mortgage over 2 yrs ago.</div><div>-NP became inhabited by squatters</div><div>-Squatters appeared engaged in drug activity, also lots of crime (theft, etc.) against neighboring properties</div><div>-Lots (hundreds) of calls to police, featured on KING5 special report about drug nuisance properties, etc., but no action to correct the problem.</div><div>-House on NP burns to the ground, suspected arson.</div><div>-NP now site of lots of garbage and burned remnants of house and trailer.</div><div><br></div><div>The fire seemed to resolve the squatter problem, but the NP is an eyesore and source of pestilence from the garbage. Neighboring properties are proving impossible to sell.</div><div><br></div><div>Questions are:</div><div>-Is this a Public Nuisance? It looked like drug abatement before but that seems inapplicable now.</div><div>-Against whom to file? O has disappeared with no address - reportedly homeless. NP is in some stage of foreclosure, Bank of America is reportedly mortgage holder.</div><div>-What venue? NP is in Snohomish County.</div><div><br></div><div>thanks and advance for any help or suggestions,<br></div><div><br></div><div>David Vaughan<br></div></span>
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