Source: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/d … nny13.html
via http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2010/06/13/ugly/
Wow...just wow. Isn't trespassing against the law? Completely brazin and illegal, but I guess if the police won't enforce the law there are no consequences.
via http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2010/06/13/ugly/
---Bubble Info wrote:
The 8,000-square-foot mansion was dark and in foreclosure for years. So last weekend when the for-sale signs came down and the lights lit up, neighbors were relieved. “We were like — ‘finally, somebody’s going to make that place a home,’ ” says one. But then some new signs went up.
“No trespassing,” the signs say. “Privately owned property. Not for sale.”
That’s odd, neighbors thought. The West of Market neighborhood in Kirkland is friendly, easygoing. So one of them called the real-estate agent to ask what was up. What he said floored them. The house is still for sale for $3.3 million. Whoever is living there had broken in. They’re squatters.
“It’s blown everybody away around here,” said another neighbor, who asked me not to print her name. “It takes some real guts to just waltz into a house like that, I’ll give them that.”
We were standing across the street from the six-bedroom, six-and-a-half bath house, dubbed in the ads as “Mediterranean Natural.” With its rock exterior and terraces, it looks like a miniature hotel.
“Elevator to the theater, wine cellar & tasting room, game room, recreation room, nanny’s quarters, den/library, culinary artist’s kitchen, bonus room and the lavish master suite & bath,” reads a listing from 2008, when the house was for sale for $5.8 million.
If you’re going to squat, might as well do it in style.
Kirkland police say it’s true — someone just showed up and changed the locks a week ago. They now claim they own the place. Police don’t believe that, but also don’t tend to get involved in landownership disputes and so haven’t done anything, yet, to remove them.
Wow...just wow. Isn't trespassing against the law? Completely brazin and illegal, but I guess if the police won't enforce the law there are no consequences.
