He walked off and abandoned it six years ago, and now we have high school kids and vagrants going in and out of it, said block captain Cynthia Wallace. I talked to the owner about it once a couple years ago, and he said, yeah, he should fix it up, but then he never did. And now the house is in horrible shape, said neighbor Jeff Berger, who owns the house two doors away. He s never there, and neither is anyone else, so he never cleans up the leaves, or shovels the snow off the sidewalk, and the garden is always overrun with weeds. The strange thing is, there are people who actively want this property, Berger continued.
Real estate is strong in University City right now.
You d think they d want to make some money off of it. But for some reason, he s just sitting on it, and the longer he sits on it, the more value it loses. He just doesn t seem to care. Urban Warrior tried to ask Brennan why he s so willing to let his property rot, but he never returned any of her calls. He s also one year behind on taxes.