From dream home to hellhole
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
Alexis Preston and her mother were very excited when they finally found a home in Atlanta’s West End neighborhood big enough for their extended family of 13. They agreed to a lease-to-own deal to rent the neatly painted 12-bedroom house for $2,100 a month from the property’s owner through foreclosure, from the bank.
The house appeared to be well maintained. On paper it looked fantastic as it detailed renovations and improvements over the years. It is one thing to look good on paper… and quite another in reality as the family soon found out from the shoddy atlanta water damage repairs.
Three days after they moved in their new home, the house flooded during a rainstorm, beginning a nearly yearlong battle with repeated flooding, mold, water damage, roof leaks, buckling floors and months-long power outages.
Eventually mold contamination sickened many members of the family forcing them to have to leave.
Read the rest of the article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution
“It went from a dream home to a hellhole,” Preston, 27, said of the house, now owned by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. after Omni failed in March.
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